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, settling in the sleepy coastal city of Brindisi in the South
of Italy where he spent his formative years.
He first approached music through the guitar and bass, playing
alone and in various short-lived local groups. Always
nurturing a fascination for the atmospheric, otherworldly, and
sometimes surreal sounds that only synthesizers could make,
his interest in electronic, ambient, and experimental music
grew over the years, eventually resulting in his first
attempts at writing and producing under the moniker
Transmissions.
His music is a blend of ambient-electronica atmospheres, steady
beats, minimalism, drone, psychedelia, and spacey synth-pop
melodies.
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 some
sporadic live activity and collaborations with other musicians
taking place.
The 2020 pandemic and resulting national quarantine in Italy
brought with it a need for change, and though stylistically
following the same 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
always developing ideas for further releases.