Looking behind the hidden, forming an orchestra out of everyday life.
Finding the essence in the trivial, clarity in the complex, poetry in simplicity.
All this is part of the aim, meaning and character of Oh No Noh, the project of Leipzig-based guitarist, robot programmer, magnetic tape cruncher and composer Markus Rom. All of this floats and shines through "As Late As Possible", the third Oh No Noh album to be released on April 4, 2025.

As the title "As Late As Possible" suggests, the focus of this album was patience. A creative lingering, the self-imposed principle of maturing ideas, consciously letting them lie and looking at them again in order to discover and refine new things.
Always on the lookout for new ways of creating musical sounds, Markus Rom has been blurring the boundaries between lo-fi, indietronica, post-rock, kraut and pop with his solo project for several years now. His main instruments for this are electric guitar, midi robots, tapes and samples.

For "As Late As Possible", Rom expands his setup with a few sound colors (acoustic guitar, banjo, organ) and musical guests: Damian Dalla Torre (Squama) on bass clarinet and Andi Haberl (the Notwist, Sun) on drums.
"As Late As Possible" continues the signature style of past releases and adds new facets. Rome's distinctive looping in and out of each other is particularly evident in the tracks "Missing the Point", "Orb" and "Almost Everywhere". With "Loot", a straightforward and folk-pop piece finds its way onto the album and coexists with math-trained tracks such as "Dog Years" or "Dot", which conjure up associations with Weilheim bands such as "Couch". The tracks "Bliss of Disconnect" and "Fawn" were created in collaboration with feature guests Liz Kosack and KMRU.

The confidently unplanned is one of the principles around which Oh No Noh himself is continuously developing. Part of this development: the radio series "Oh No Noh Radioh", which has so far comprised over 40 parts, for which Rom invites a guest in each episode to make music together along roughly defined concepts, ideas and inspirations. Together with technology composer Hainbach, free jazz artist Limpe Fuchs or sound artist Elsa M'Bala, for example, encounters were created whose patient searching and finding and whose controlled coincidences also characterize "As Late As Possible" - here, however, bundled, concise, always committed to the song despite all love for sound and experimentation.

With this desire for song-like narration, for movement, for development, "As Late As Possible" remains in limbo and in search. Its concentration seems light-footed, its happy accidents well-placed, the melancholy beauty of outdated technologies, forgotten musical toys and broken sound sources always forward-looking. The kind of music that is created when someone programs an entire band of robots, which then becomes a friendly part of the whole.

The artwork for "As Late As Possible" was created by Leipzig-based comic artist Anna Haifisch. The album was mixed by Adam Lenox and mastered by Frida Claeson Johannsson. It will be released on 4.4.25 by TELESKOP on vinyl and digital.

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