biography
Odd Radio Circles is an electronic music project by Bruno Pezer.
Hailing from the small town of Široki Brijeg in Bosnia & Herzegovina,
Bruno spent his childhood between his homeland and various countries
abroad, finally settling in the sleepy coastal city of
Brindisi in the South of Italy where he spent his formative
years.
An avid music listener since early adolescence, he first
learned the guitar and bass as a teenager and played in
various local rock, heavy metal and blues bands. Nurturing a
lifelong fascination for the atmospheric, otherworldly and
futuristic sounds that only synthesizers could produce, his
interest in electronic and experimental music grew over the
years, eventually resulting in his first attempts at writing
and producing under the moniker Transmissions.
His first releases were for the independent record
labels Triple
Moon Records, on which he made an appearance in a
compilation,
and Sounds
Against Humanity with which he produced two albums. A
further EP and full length were self-released, with sporadic
live activity and collaborations with other musicians taking
place.
As the 2020 pandemic brought Italy to a prolonged national
quarantine, a need for renewal emerged, and although
stylistically following the same musical direction,
Transmissions was reborn as Odd Radio Circles. The first track
for the new project was commissioned for a program on an
independent radio station in Louisiana, USA. Odd Radio
Circles' first
album, Stories in
the Dust was reworked from unreleased Transmissions
material in collaboration with the poet Simon Chiatante and
released in 2021. The next couple of years brought an EP and a
few experimental singles resulting from further
collaborations, including appearances
on Chelidon
Frame's Asynchronous
Drone Orchestra. In the meantime, work was slowly but surely
taking place on the follow-up full-length, Concerto for Fish,
originally conceived as a Transmissions album in 2018.
Odd Radio Circles currently resides in Berlin, Germany, and is
working on new material.