Osi - Office of Strategic Influence
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Artist: OsiEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2003-02-21
Music Label: Marquee Inc. Japan
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- The New Math (What He Said)
- OSI
- When You're Ready
- Horseshoes and B-52's
- Head
- Hello, Helicopter!
- Shutdown
- Dirt from a Holy Place
- Memory Daydreams Lapses
- Standby (Looks Like Rain)
- Horseshoes and B-52's [Video Clip]
- Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun [*]
- New Mama [*]
- The Thing That Never Was [*]
- Enhanced CD Video Documentary [*]
Free Music Notes for Office of Strategic Influence
Free Music Review: Incredible Visceral Gut-gnawing
Hit: 5 Stars
I havn't been able to get this album outta my head since I started listening to it, it's simply incredible. It sends me on a quasi-industrial, cyber-punk futuristic surrealistic voyage into realms of political angst, and future shock. Fits well into a Post 911 world and is definitely cutting edge. I can picture Terminator-like scenes with hovering robotic ships, hunter-killers roaming a desolate post-apocalyptic industrial wasteland, the sound effects being the lasers and other futuristic scanning devices - not for the faint of heart! Anyone looking for something to fill that ever-gnawing empty space while waiting between Porcupine Tree or Dream Theater CD's will gobble this down like a starving refugee. It begins with "The New Math(What He Said)"snippets of Dan Rather obviously trying to get info on some world event and he is getting nowhere which lends the song a paranoid-out of control feel, not to mention the heavy riffs(my girlfriend always tells me to turn this CD DOWN!).Then we get "When You Are Ready" and "OSI", which for me give off a real sense of foreboding and caution for what the States foreign policy is lately. Interspersed, so you can catch your breath, we get dreamy, mellow acoustic songs such as "Hello Helicopter" and the understated "Standby(Looks Like Rain)" which seems a metaphor for saying troubled days are forecast for the near future. Disregard the reviews that pan this CD and give it a spin to decide for yourself, and try to keep all expectations aside, as that always ruins the experience. When we listen with preconceived ideas the listening experience always suffers. This CD seems to me ahead of its time and has it's finger firmly on the pulse of the world situation today and is boldly forging new paths musically. Should be listed in a new genre called "cyber-punk industrial angst"
Office of Strategic Influence Poster
Office of Strategic Influence is the first album by American progressive rock band OSI, originally released on February 18, 2003. The album was recorded in June 2002 and mixed in August 2002 at the Carriage House Studios in Stamford, Connecticut.Fates Warning guitarist Jim Matheos originally recruited Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy to work on a progressive metal album. When keyboardist and vocalist Kevin Moore (founder of Chroma Key and former Dream Theater member) joined the project, the musical direction of the album changed to become more focused on sound-scapes and composition than musicianship. Sean Malone (of Cynic and Gordian Knot) and Steven Wilson (of Porcupine Tree) also performed on the album.
The album is named after the Office of Strategic Influence, an organization set up after the September 11 attacks to spread misinformation and plant false news items in the media, among other functions. The Office was shut after The New York Times published a story on it; many of its operations were transferred to the Information Operations Task Force. The album's lyrics were written by Moore in reaction to the September 11 attacks.
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