NEWS: Calligram premier “Ostranenie”!

Refining their amalgamation of bilious D-beat punk and ice cold Black Metal London’s very own Calligram have unvieled a third single “Ostranenie” from their 14th July via Prosthetic Records releasing album “Position | Momentum“. Once again vocals are delivered in Matteo Rizzardo’s native Italian as they follow 2021’s “The Eye Is The First Circle” with an album recorded at The Parlour Studios in Kettering with Russ Russell (Napalm Death, Dimmu Borgir, At The Gates) during the summer of 2022…

The band comment: “‘Ostranenie’ is a word that Russian formalists used for Defamiliarization. This is what life is all about: fighting habits, seeking desire undiluted by habits. Habits ruin everything, they make everything flat and plain. Defamiliarization is the impossible aim to experience everything like it was the first time and it’s the central concepts of art, poetry and of course music. The purpose of art and music is to impart the sensation of things as they are perceived and not as they are known. The technique of art is to make objects ‘unfamiliar’, to make forms difficult. The function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. Position | Momentum and its celebration of chaos shakes up the “familiar scene” giving a new meaning to it”

Catch Calligram this summer:

10 July – New Cross Inn – London
14 July – Corporation – Sheffield
15 July – Crofters Rights – Bristol
16 July – Green Door Store – Brighton
28 July – Castle Tavern – Luton
29 July – Reaper Festival – Hairy Dog – Derby
30 July – The Anvil – Bournemouth