RZRecords cat: RZR25OOHNs · UPC: 5063831102720 · New-ish Release · Digital
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| OO / HN by Oddity Odyssey / Haggari Nakashe |
Noise is a universal language, but every practitioner speaks it with a different accent. OO / HN, the new-ish split release between Oddity Odyssey (Hanford, California) and Haggari Nakashe (Ontario, Canada) is proof of that. Two artists, two coasts, one uncompromising vision.
One of the things we love most about the underground experimental scene is that it has no borders, geographic, stylistic, or otherwise. OO / HN, this split between Oddity Odyssey and Haggari Nakashe, is a living example of that.
Oddity Odyssey comes from DJ Krooked's world, a prolific, restless corner of the Bandcamp noise underground rooted in Hanford, California, where avant-garde chaos and underground, experimental-alterative hip-hop are practically the mission statement. Haggari Nakashe is, of course, family here at RZRecords, a sound artist whose work has stretched from harsh noise to dark ambient to free jazz bass improvisation, always on his own terms.
Each side clocks in at roughly fifteen minutes, and that runtime is intentional. This isn't a quick handshake between collaborators. It's two extended statements, placed side by side, inviting you to sit with the discomfort and find the thread connecting them.
Track 1: Oddity Odyssey — Shades of Yorick (15:48)
The title pulls from Shakespeare's most famous meditation on mortality, Yorick, the dead jester whose skull Hamlet holds and addresses in Act V. There's something fitting about that reference here. Shades of Yorick feels like a piece that exists in the aftermath of something, sifting through remains. Oddity Odyssey constructs a sprawling, abrasive environment over nearly sixteen minutes, harsh, textured, and unsettling in a way that doesn't rush toward resolution. It earns its runtime.
Track 2: Haggari Nakashe — You guys make noises in your sleep sleep sleep (15:00)
The title is more personal, more intimate, and that intimacy makes it somehow more disquieting than the grandeur of the first track. Sleep is supposed to be safe, unconscious, unguarded. Whatever noises are being made here, they aren't reassuring. Haggari brings fifteen minutes of the layered, patient sound design that has become his signature, droning, dark-ambient noise that doesn't assault so much as it accumulates, surrounding you before you realize what's happened.
These two worlds obviously overlap on paper. And that's exactly the point. Some splits are about artists who already sound alike, they're about artists who share a commitment, and even if the expressions slightly differ, the dark hug this type of sound provides, that's the same. Both Oddity Odyssey and Haggari Nakashe operate outside of genre comfort zones, release prolifically, and treat sound and noise as a serious artistic language rather than a provocation for its own sake.
Some releases slip through the cracks. Not because they aren't worthy, quite the opposite. OO / HN, the split between Oddity Odyssey and Haggari Nakashe, came out on September 27, 2025, and quietly went about its business the way the best underground releases do: no fanfare, no algorithm, just thirty minutes of uncompromising noise sitting there waiting for the right ears. We feel it deserves more than that. Consider this a second look, a belated flag in the ground, a reminder that this one exists and that you should be listening to it.
OO / HN is available name-your-price via krooked.bandcamp.com, with distribution support from RZRecords. This one feels like the beginning of something. Stay tuned.
