He was born in 1966 in the port city of Odessa, USSR. This is how old songs from all around their motherland, found its new meaning in the new environment, surrounded by whirling satellites, brilliant galaxies, streaming comets and mysterious planets. This is how simple drum, flute, mouth harp turned into theremin, synthesizer and sampling sequencer. Even surrounded by eerie reaches of space, deprived of the local disco clubs, they take up to their own innovative character and invent the new musicale instruments. Shepherds fall in love and then they sing… they sing slow melancholic melodies with naive and beautiful lyrics. Even your flock of sheep might experience a cosmically unreal and transient state, resulting in good production of milk'n'wool. These incessant rhythmic pulsations, captivating tone colors and sound effects of electronic and acoustic instruments, as well as unpretentious and plain melodic patterns, create an uncommon but contemporary feeling. You can enjoy it listening alone, immersed in your own shepherd fantasies or dancing with a fellow shepherd or shepherdess. This is the album for present day shepherds.
His first album on the Essay Recordings label, 'Trans Balkan Express', put him in the international spotlight and none other than Borat has chosen two tracks from the album - "Money Boney" and "Magic Mamaliga" - for the soundtrack of his latest film. Futurism meets folklore imaginaire: Ladies and Gentlemen, we are floating in Eastern European space. With his ideas and his musicians he bravely goes where no human ear has dared to go before. So welcome to electronic Walachia, where folk meets Kraftwerk and where bizarre instruments and electronic sounds combine to create a whole new musical dimension. As an explorer, German Popov loves to travel around Central Asia making live recordings of everything from the traditional songs and melodies of the steppes to the modern restaurant bands of Tashkent with their tinny keyboard sound. Born in the port of Odessa (Ukraine), German Popov emigrated to Amsterdam in 1989. Our Man from Odessa - is the master of crossover par excellence. Futurism meets folklore imaginaire or should we better call it Village Disco or Space Folklore.“You’re unlikely to hear anything quite like this anywhere else.” (.uk) In his music folk meets Kraftwerk - bizarre instruments and electronic sounds combine to create a whole new musical dimension. travels from the West to the East, from Amsterdam via Berlin to the hinterlands of the EU, the Carpates, the Black Sea right into the front garden of Asia. Originating from Odessa (Our Man from Odessa) he relocated in Amsterdam where he was at the forefront of Electronica producers merging sounds from East and West. OMFO is a bandit in time and space, transforming ancient melodies into music for cosmonauts and spaceships. OMFO -Our Man from Odessa (German Popov) Website.OMFO -Our Man from Odessa (German Popov) Myspace.OMFO -Our Man from Odessa (German Popov) Facebook.
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