orbit service is the musical project of randall frazier, produced in collaboration with kim g. hansen (antenne), and with guitar work from brian gerhard and dennis swanson (day dissolved dream).
Influences
pink floyd, syd barrett, legendary pink dots, the cure, current 93, the smiths, the church, sisters of mercy, smashing pumpkins, a cruel and harsh existence on a trash-covered planet.
Sounds Like
"This band is in a class of its own, where the more sociopathic side of Pink Floyd meets the twisted musical imagery of the Legendary Pink Dots and Edward Ka-Spel, as unlikely as it seems. Emotionally draining and highly recommended."
- Fracois Couture, All Music Guide
An altruistic dark side of the moon proposition, Eta Carinae is a star 120-150 times the size of our own sun that lies a mere 7000+ light years from this island Earth. Discovered by no less than Edmond Halley his bad self in the late 17th century, Eta Carinae has been observed to fluctuate between telescopic and naked eye proportions over the past 3 centuries. Eta Carinae is in the last throes of its long life, with only about another
100,000 or so years to go before a likely supernova. It seems fitting that one of the most majestic and awesome of the celestial bodies should be serenaded by someone. Orbit Service have certainly taken space, the atom mother, to heart in this progressive ode. And like the star in their eyes the album expands and contracts from white hot to blue cool. The resultant cosmic astro-dirge howls in a bubbly flurry of electro-buzz and slowly
pulsing drumbeats. Vocal whispers rise into muted wails, pushing against the very fabric of firmament itself before being drawn back into the gaseous miasma of the star-field. Violence and silence interlaced, as in the life of a sun. Or in the life of a son. The lyrics cast shadows on the stuff of terra firma and of the heart as well, making this just as much about inner space. Orbit Service's cris de coeur is a shaded psychedelic parallectrogram that almost answers the question: what if the star baby at the end of '2001: A Space Odyssey' was the product of Thom York and Roger Waters?. Orbit Service at your service. Wish you were here...
going fine Randall, thank you working hard on completing the "Cordophony" trilogy and prepairing a monthly rendez-vous dedicated to experimental music to happen in town during the Summer... + on Friday playing with Lydia Lunch for a good festival, CAN'T WAIT !!!
Just been listening to your stuff for like half hour, and as per usual you haven't let me down! Great new material! Well I've had internet problems for a few months so I've been restricted to mobile web...and that sucks. So I've not had a chance to keep up with the times! How's it going guys? Jimmy
Oh, thank you! Glad to hear you like it! As I said, "Songs of Eta Carinae" is one of the best newer albums I've stumbled upon in recent years. Can't say I've heard anything else like it, and I truly mean that as a compliment... I'm going to enjoy listening to the new tracks, for sure! Don't know if you do any live shows at all, but if you ever do any in sweden/scandinavia, be sure to give us a shout! Cheers!
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