#theorb

[vptree]

Christmas Shenanigans

[harminder]

The Orb by Marc Fornes

[432mhz]

Yarns From The Chocolate Triangle from Chocolate Hills, The Orb

[lesser-known-composers]

August Kühnel (1645-c.1700) - Suite XIII a-Moll; Duo in RE

Anja Engelberg - Viola da gamba (Marco Ternovec)

Premek Hajek - Theorbe (Matteo Baldinelli)

[jamieroxxartist]

Happy Birthday. Today, Oct 15, 1959 – #AlexPaterson, English keyboard player (#TheOrb and #TransitKings) was born.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Paterson)

[home-and-having-tea]

One of my favorite Orb Updates

OH MY GOD I FOUND IT I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR AGES

[steliosagapitos]

[dustedmagazine]

Animal, Surrender! Listed

Animal, Surrender! is a duo made up of Sunwatchers’ Peter Kerlin on bass and Rob Smith on drums. On their first, self-titled album, the pair execute, loping, elastic grooves, nodding towards folk and blues but never quite settling into genre. In her review, Jennifer Kelly called the song, “Led by the Bit,” “an intriguing rattletrap construction, bounded by intricate, syncopated percussion but with Kerlin’s bass musing its bass-like dreams within these constraints.” Here’s what Kerlin and Smith are listening to.

Kelan Phil Cohran & Legacy — “White Nile”

PETE: I first started to slip into the Animal, Surrender!��sound world upon hearing African Skies, by Kelan Phil Cohran & Legacy at Domino Sound in New Orleans in 2011. I asked the purveyor, “What is this and please tell me it’s for sale.” It’s been in regular rotation since. Pure magic, flawless without being precious for a single moment.

Jeff Parker — “2019-07-08-ii”

ROB: The drummer here, Jay Bellerose is my favorite currently-working drummer... all space, tone, and touch. Earthy patterns intersect and breathe in ways that simultaneously nurture and tug at the other voices in the ensemble. Although I absolutely love what he does with groups as dad-rockish as Alison Krauss & Robert Plant, this heady double-LP from Eremite really gives us a clear open view of his masterful creativity with timbre and air.

Ann O Aro — “Zardin”

PETE: The economy of the arrangements on this record and the spare, precise production were a touchstone in the recording stage of A,S!. There is some crazy stuff going on here though. O Aro’s voice is clearly a thing of beauty but that is 100% not the point at all. The music has an undeniable force and is bound together with an incredible tension. An example of the Maloya anti-colonial music from the Island of Reunion where she hails and a deeply personal dredging and catharsis synthesized seamlessly. Shout out to Mike Bones for turning me on to it.

Gunter Schickert — “Puls”

ROB: Klaus Schulze’s roadie didn’t use any synthesizers or sequencers to craft his own singular, prowling Berlin hypnosis. The warp and weft of multitrack tapes, guitars, and drums is exactly the kind of mind-fabric that prepared me for working within Animal, Surrender!

Jack Rose & The Black Twig Pickers — “Kensington Blues”

PETE: Rose loomed large for me. This track played on repeat in my mind for years. It’s so effortless, it’s as if the music existed already, unheard, and the band is just revealing it. My effort to balance multiple voices on the bass comes out of a fascination with this “American Primitive” sound. Nathan Bowles is here on percussion. Bowles shared the drum chair with Rob in Pigeons!

Hopkinson Smith — “Robert de Visée: Pieces de Theorbe”

ROB: One of the greatest musical conversations I ever had was speaking intimately with the genius lutenist Hopkinson Smith over pints of stout about unmeasured preludes and the intersections of baroque string music and bluegrass. This incredible 1979 recording of works for theorbo, an epic bass lute, shows how a multi-course bass instrument originally designed for accompaniment can take the spotlight, much as Peter’s 8-string bass does within this group.

Jessica Pavone — “Dawn to Dark”

PETE: I was split about which Pavone track to include here. Her recent “less tempered” works are riveting, but I chose this early Pavone chamber piece featuring my old bandmate, Emily Manzo, a pianist of extraordinary ability, who is also a gifted songwriter and singer. Here Pavone casts her as a vocalist. There’s musicality and presence in every nanosecond of her performance. Stunning yet never bombastic. The pacing and restraint that Jessica brings to the whole record leads you deep into some psychic space, you forget you’re listening to “chamber music.”

Henry Cow — “Nirvana for Mice”

ROB: Chris Cutler’s way of feeling deep grooves inside of twisted, asymmetrical compositions always sounds brand new and shocking to my ears despite this album’s 1973 session date. He’ll crack a nasty backbeat inside a careful avant woodwind arrangement, forcing your ass to swivel despite your brain being patiently sliced open on the band’s dissection table. Dada blues for sure.

75 Dollar Bill — “Beni Said”

PETE: One of the most consistently inspiring live bands in New York for the past decade. It was while lost in one of Che’s asymmetrical Mauritanian riffs on his modified Hagstrom 12-string that I had an “ah ha!” moment about the 8-string bass and how to bring it into the foreground. We’ve had an ongoing dialogue about it that has kept me going in those moments when I’m questioning this weird obsession I have with this uncooperative instrument.

Bullwackies All Stars — “Kicking Scott, Rockfort Dub”

ROB: Lloyd Barnes’ Bronx dub devastation provided an early shared navigational system for us in Animal, Surrender! Wackie spirals you down infinite, dissociative avenues of echo paved with the deepest bass around. Melodic organisms bloom from the cracks and illuminate pathways through the twisted urban ecology, clouds of pungent smoke notwithstanding.

[tieflingkisser]

1984

[drumstheword]

New free drum lesson teaching my top 6 favourite drum beats from the 90s album "Pure Moods". Get the free drum notation here... https://www.drumstheword.com/top-6-drum-beats-from-pure-moods-free-video-drum-lesson-sheet-music/ . . . #drumstheword #drumlessons #drumbeat #drums #drumming #drummers #drumcover #sheetmusic #puremoods #returntoinnocence #enigma #sweetlullaby #deepforest #crocketstheme #janhammer #chimai #enniomorricone #sadeness #littlefluffyclouds #theorb

[lesser-known-composers]

Michel de Bethune (1607 - 16..?) : "Pieces pour theorbes Francaises"

Jose Miguel Moreno, theorbo

[jamieroxxartist]

Studio Soundtracking: 6:15am EST What’s on right now here in my Art Studio while I Paint away and work this morning:

*I think I heard this song about a million times in clubs back in the day. It was pretty much a come-back-down staple or at least at the clubs I was hanging out at.

#TheOrb - #LittleFluffyClouds (Official Music Video)

[visualvexation]

There are more

this might be my favorite tiktok i have ever seen. absolute gold through and through

[seansheap]

Record 2226. #PopWillEatItself #TwoFingersMyFriends I am extremely excited to have this record enter my collection. The incredible remix album to Pop Will Eat Itself's opus "Dos Dedos Mis Amigos". The remixes on this album are so stupendous "Two Fingers My Friends" becomes an album all to it's own. Includes remix production by #fundamental #jahwobble #renegadesoundwave #theorb #apollo440 and more. Unfortunately, the distopian themes continue to reflect the current social situations in the world today. #grebo #industrialrock #altrock #rap #ambient #remix #vinyl #records #nowspinning #vinyljunkie #recordcollection #vinyligclub https://www.instagram.com/p/CBZmaHcj3h5/?igshid=pn0vdbo09wpp