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The Orb announce spacey new album
By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 22 April 2015
The Orb have announced that they will release a new album, titled ‘Moonbuilding 2703AD’. It will be a bit spacey.
Says the duo’s Alex Paterson of the album: “It’s a solid piece of music that mutates into an eight legged lunar Land Rover and takes off into a cosmic horizon of a million sounds, patterns and textures. It spins the listener on his/her head, rewiring their brains to maximum capacity, then brings them home, sweet home”.
He continues: “‘Moonbuilding 2703AD’ is inspired by this place called Earth and the idea that in the future mankind discovers its root element in the ancient rocks on solar moons, which are based on musical harmonies, that despite being imprinted a billion lights years ago, are set to the same tempo as The Orb”.
Speaking in slightly less flowery language, Thomas Fehlmann adds: “This album and the process of its production makes me feel real good. An important part of the excitement is that our working system has reached a level where we are closer than ever to an automatic recognition of each other’s ideas, and ways to transform those into sound without explanation, so we could draw directly from our creative engines”.
‘Moonbuilding 2703AD’ is due for release through Kompakt on 22 Jun.
