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Disc 01
01. "H.O.M.E"
02. "Why Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You're Not An"
03. "A Ghetto Love Story"
04. "Picking Tea Leaves & Chasing Butterflies"
05. "Tiger"
Disc 02
01. "Dragon Of The Oceans"
02. "The Beginning Of The End"
03. "Living In Recycled Times"
04. "Prism"
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| | Description: | On April 28th 2023 The Orbâ??s pulsating discography grows ever more huge, with their 18th album, and 3rd helmed by core duo Alex Paterson and Michael Rendall. Despite the connotations of its title, â??Prismâ??, here they continue to rollick freely without inhibition across ambient, house and dub, but also tangent into poetry, pop, full-blown drum â??nâ?? bass and actual reggae.
The LP features electronic musicians David Harrow (whose CV includes Anne Clarke, Psychic TV, Razormaid, Adrian Sherwood and Andy Weatherall) and Gaudi (whose credits include Max Romeo, Capleton, Johnny Clarke and Desmond Dekker). Other guests include Orb regular Youth, violinist Violeta Vicci, Kompakt records alumnus Leonardo Fresco, Metamono man Jono Podmore, Guitarist and Alexâ??s old schoolchum David Lofts, plus vocalists Eric Von Skywalker, Andy Cain and Rachel Dâ??arcy.
â??Prismâ?? begins with the epic winding journey of â??H.O.M.Eâ??, which features a poem by Paterson, and traverses through dark ambient into star-surfing Fingers-style house, before â??Why Can You Be In Two Places At Onceâ?¦â?? kicks into a funked-up, afrobeaty chug.
With Patersonâ??s decades-long love for Jamaican music and output oft drenched in the dubwise, it should come as little surprise that The Orb have now gone full reggae, on the ebullient nostalgia tale of Von Skywalkerâ??s youthful romance, â??A Ghetto Love Storyâ??.
The album then disappears down a wormhole of rubadub head-music called â??Picking Tea & Chasing Butterfilesâ??, which sounds like Colourbox meets Popul Vuh in Shanghai, and also echoes back to Weatherallâ??s Ultrabass II remix of â??Perpetual Dawnâ??.
Flipping the script entirely, by sprinkling a large bag of disco dust, is the slinky boogie wonderland of â??Tigerâ?? (the name and nickname of Patersonâ??s son and late brother respectively), which juxtaposes but somehow coheres with the melodica-tinged thunderous bass music of â??Dragon Of Oceansâ?? and itâ??s Sirius B gazing wordplay.
The expertly-executed, floaty 90s trance dance of â??The Beginning Of The Endâ?? works very nicely within its own familiar parameters; which contrasts sharply with â??Living In Recycled Timesâ??, which ignites over ten plus minutes into fully-fledged, rave-ready D&B fire, which although out of their comfort zone still sounds very Orb. - Double vinyl LP pressing. 2023 release. Prism is the 17th studio album by ambient house duo The Orb. Prism includes contributions from Youth, Violeta Vicci, Gaudi, David Harrow, Leandro Fresco, Jono Podmore and David Lofts and features vocalists Eric Von Skywalker, Andy Cain and Rachel D'arcy.P&C 2022 Alex Paterson t/a The Orb
Made In The EU
Bundle consisting of:
- black double vinyl
- mandarin orange vinyl, limited to a 500 copies on all bundles, sticker numbered on the front sleeve (but this wasn't present on all releases) and a stickered barcode replacing the black vinyl one
- CD, released in a 6 sided digisleeve (no individual credits mentioned)
- Bonus CD, limited to a total of 500 copies on all bundles and hand numbered on the front sleeve and signed by Alex Paterson, released in a card sleeve | | | Manufacturer No.: |
05241401 |
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Cooking Vinyl Limited
375 Media GmbH
Schachthofstraße 36a, 21079 Hamburg, DE
https://375media.com/ | |
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