Time to go global
for pick 'n' mix purveyors of afro-tribal beats, electronic dance,
Mali blues, funk, & psych.
Cosmic, infectious,
hypnotic, playful and fun. Just some of the words that spring to mind
while listening to the debut album from Orchestra Of Spheres. As part
of the Frederick Street Sound And Light Exploration Society in
Wellington, New Zealand (see link below), the band are well placed to
make music that is not tied down by genre restrictions or audience
expectations. Part Fela Kuti, part Can, part George Clinton, with
hints of psych and avant jazz.
Album opener Hypercube
is a fantastic statement of intent, a call to arms for like-minded
souls to fly their freak fly high, polyrhythmic drums fighting with
call and response chanted vocals, possibly in a made up language.
There Is No No follows with desert drone guitar and gamelan giving
way to hyperactive bingo-caller vocals. There's even a Celtic folk
influence to be detected on Spontaneous Symmetry, its twangy guitar
lines courtesy of a biscuit tin guitar. As the album progresses the
pychedelic and free jazz elements come to the fore as on the trippy
Hypershere and Eternal C Of Darkness, basically Nina Simone meets
Delia Derbyshire on the set of The Magic Roundabout.
They come across as a
band that takes having fun seriously, as demonstrated by their stage
costumes which are as bizarre as their home-made instruments.
Mind-expanding and with no comedown.
Click here for
Orchestra Of Spheres on Bandcamp.
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