Continuities Vol. II - In The Context Of A Room by The Orphanage Committee - released by EE Tapes

 

Second part of Continuities by The Orphanage Comittee published by the invaluable EE Tapes. 

Six tracks of analogue ambience but not necessarily the ''ambient'' in the classical way of understanding this term and the label/genre.

What distinguishes The Orphanage Comittee with his approach and compositional value is some sort of classical modal when it comes to presenting his ideas and turning them into themes. Not only because of the tools he is using but also of the mood and compositions themselves. 

There is a strong sensitivity of an underground DIY ethos to those electronic landscapes - there is not a single one amongst them that is overproduced and compressed in a way that makes them easier to digest and listen. That is a bit of post-industrial aspect to it.

There's a different part to it which makes you want to come back to those tracks. This is the value between repetitive minimalism and something on the verge of baroque compositional set up - it makes you think of a carefully designed and assembled soundtrack rather than another typical minimalist  ambient  album. In this respect The Orphanage Comittee stands in a completely different area. 

It reminds me of those haunting moments in Peter Weir's film soundtracks such as ''The Last Wave'' or ''The Year of Living Dangerously''.

And similiarly as Peter Weir's or his other countryman's work - Paul Cox has all the values of The Otherness - something which bears the mark of something larger than life, not necessarily a mystical gaze but definitely something on the verge of that.

Looking forward to hear more from The Commitee...

All sonic fantasies were concocted and gracefully fulfilled by Orphan S.C. Wallace.

Mastering and design by Jan Van den Broeke [ janvandenbroeke.co ]

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