(some more permanent than others!)
Pete Ardron, keyboards and other stuff
Myo - vocals
Samanta Ray - vocals
Pierre Luigi - guitar/bass
Jon Bongly - percussion
Becky Dell - marimba, other percussion, vocals
Kait Farbon - violin
Diane Everitt - dancer
Sandra Eveno - dancer
Sean Spindrift - percussion
Sam Hicks - keyboards
Gareth Small - guitar/bass
Bagz - electronic percussion
Onyx Ashanti - wind synth
Teresa Gabriel - vocals
Nalini - vocals
Maya Metcalfe - percussion
Anna Franklin - visuals
Verdi Stewart - trumpet
Orchid-Star was put together by Pete Ardron at the start of 2005, initially as a vehicle to perform music he had written for DJ sets, mostly for chill-out rooms.
The sound is lush and colourful with a strong world music influence – Indian, Arabic, Celtic, African and more - fused with everything from psychedelic chill and dub to drum & bass and funk. Part electronic, part live, their revolving line-up includes vocalists – Myo and Samanta Ray, guitar & bass – Pierre Luigi, electric fiddle – Kait Farbon, full-size marimba – Becky Dell, percussionists – Jon Bongly, Sean Spindrift and Becky, keyboards - Pete, dancers SandRa and Diane Everitt and occasionally more.
Orchid-Star have featured an increasing list of guest performers from here and abroad, vocalists, instrumentalists, dancers and visual artists, giving a real variety to their shows, performing with anything from 3-10 people on stage.
Both core members and guests have diverse musical roots, several with classical training and members with backgrounds in rock, reggae, soul, funk, jazz, world and other fields, having played with people as varied as Frank Sinatra(!), Jimi Hendrix(!), Tim Finn of Crowded House, True Life Confessions, Basement Jaxx, Soul2Soul, Hallucinogen and Stomp.
Pete’s last major project before this was Glow, well known on the global-dance/world-music scene in the late 90s and with whom several other Orchid-Star members also served time.
By the summer of 2005, with a regular core established, the band had started to take on its own sound, identity and direction, moving away from the initial plan and concentrating more on the more up-tempo dancy tracks – a trend reflected in the first new tracks to be written specifically for the Orchid-Star.
Highlights of the first year included the main stages at Kingston Green Fair, the London Green Lifestyles Show and Big Green Gathering and the main headline slot on the largest of Glastonbury Festival’s fringe stages, Croissant Neuf where the Orchid-Star and Pete also received about 3 hours of airplay on the festival’s radio station, Radio Avalon.
The Orchid-Star are as at home in a club environment as on a festival stage and have played at the Synergy Project, Planet Angel, Acid Monkey, and Edensounds amongst others.
2006 saw the band concentrate mostly finishing off their first album “Birth” - in Pete’s opinion the best thing he has ever produced – a collection of tracks originally written for sets for Planet Angel, ID Spiral, Bingly Bongly and Liquid Connective
While people who have seen the Orchid-Star live will be familiar with most of the tunes on "Birth" they may be surprised to find that, whilst this is still a very rhythmic, big, lush sounding album, it is predominantly down-tempo. This is a legacy of the chill-out roots of this project - the second album, already half-written, promises to a much more up-tempo affair.
2007 has seen Orchid-Star back out live more including performances at Sunrise, Antiworld, Glade, Bowl and Waveform festivals, and clubs like Planet Angel and Synergy with sets ranging from their first full-on dance set to some special performances of ‘Birth’ in it’s entirety
The band saw 2008 in in style with 2 gigs in the first 12 hours and on 1st Feb their debut album ‘Birth’ was released on Liquid Sound including a 2nd CD, 'reBirth', with remixes by Youth, Tripswitch, Kuba, Subsonar and Pete.
The summer included performances at the following festivals, Glastonbury, Glade, Hadra (France), Offworld, Boom (Portugal) and Solfest though a prime-time main-stage slot at Sunrise was sadly lost to freak weather.
Their first (7-mix) single ‘Passion’ will be release digitally by Archangel Recordings on Oct.27th '08. Pre-order now from www.archangeluk.co.uk/orchidstar
Watch the video for Passion below
Review: "Don Goliath's "Bagstep EP" (DDR030) is one of those innovative EPs showcasing how versatile Dubstep can get. The unique idea of creating Dubstep versions of celctic (Irish as well as Scottish) folk classics for all you drunkards longing to sing along was Don Goliath's motto when producing this madness. The concept is as simple as effective: he picked 4 of your grandpa's favourites such as "Old Skibbereen", "Scotland the Brave", "Drunken Sailor" and "Amazing Grace" having the melody played by a definitly non-sober Bagpipe section and then layering it with lofi mid range wobbleism - we therefor call it Bagstep. Overall production quality is high grade with that intense sub focus so you can blow-dry your hair right in front of the bass bins. Now let's get into the tunes: "Skibbereen Bagstep" is one of the melancolic minor tunes expressing Irish history as it is. It is an unmixable 3/4 waltz beat at unusual 154bpm, well dancebal though when one moves to the triplets. "Bagstep the brave" should be one of the sickest rebuilds of the Scottish national anthem making it Mel Gibson's signature tune if he had one. "Drunken Bagstep" is a Glitchfest version of the sailors anthem capable of getting you uberdrunk by listening alone, Arrrr! "Amazing Bagstep" is as religious as it gets making it a tune that'll certainly safe xamounts of lost souls. Enjoying the dancefloor got even easier now: drink out the bar, make your skirt fly and sing along to these (future) classics! Some will hate this release and some will love it, there barely is anything in between. All Dubstep Division crew salutes the latter as our fellow beerheadz! cheeeeeerz!"
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Gästelistenplätze gibt es hier: www.wergehthin.de/Koeln/Subway/electronic-love--1129
I sent an Angel to watch over you last night, but it came back... I asked, "Why?"... the Angel said: "Angels don't watch over Angels!" i said "we do this one so get your butt back there!"
GOOD FRIENDS ARE LIKE ANGELS YOU DONT HAVE TO SEE THEM TO KNOW THEY ARE THERE...
Download my new EP "Explorers" for free @ www.flictmusic.com
Style: Psychedelic Ambient
1- Explorers (10:15) 2- Against the Wind (07:37) 3- To-and-Fro (08:32) 4- Starlight (05:43)
"Explorers features four tracks filled with spacy atmospheres and hypnotic grooves created by Dan E, one of the leading ambient music artists from Brazil. After mesmerizing audiences with DJ sets for years, Flict is now touring the country with his fresh new live act designed to induce a introspective journey through the listener mind."
E’ imminente la pubblicazione della prima compilation esaustiva sul funk italiano. Curata da Ernesto De Pascale e da Bobby Soul (Funkinitalia) per la Cramps Music la doppia raccolta uscirà il 27 Novembre. Comprenderà una parte antologica e una parte manifesto della scena contemporanea. Grandissimi nomi inclusi da Pino Daniele a Loredana Bertè ad Elio e le Storie Tese fra tantissimi altri. Verrà presentata al prossimo MEI Meeting delle Etichette Indipendenti di Faenza Sabato 28 alle ore 21. E dal Lunedì’ successivo sarà distribuita nei negozi e on-line. Nella track list anche un nuovo brano inedito di Bobby Soul & Les Gastones in anteprima per gli amici di myspace qui e anche ascoltabile a questo link: http://www.youtube.com/bobbysouls#p/a/u/0/m8lM-xql_Nk. ogni vostro commento è ben gradito!
New Release from Section 27 Netlabel [S27-028] ADVIRUZ - NIGHTLY SOUNDS (IDM, Glitch, Experimental)
Adviruz is the artist pseudonym of Istanbul’s Pinar Gurcan, whose growing passion for sound is translated through her music. Since an early age, she has been listening and mimicking opera singers, writing melodies, songs and poems in which she spoke her mind and reflected her soul. All of which are evident on "Nightly Sounds", an 8 track album which is the equivilent of having a glimpse into a diary, learning of love lost, gained, a snapshot of the human condition from which we can all draw experience... All of these things are developed musically into minimalistic glitch, noise, idm, experimental music and microsounds, influences reminiscent of work by artists like Tujiko Noriko, Mira Calix, Plaid and Björk.
Adviruz and Section 27 present "Nightly Sounds", an intricately woven and rewarding musical tapestry. Available now for free download.
Download and Audio previews available at : http://section27netlabel.blogspot.com
In the magicalities of a could, Between the probabilities of a would, Beyond the trivialities of a should, In these ungraspable mysticalities There lies a secret a passage… To this extraordinary wood.
But for you, it unfolds easily and true And the only thing you have to do Is press play, and you’ll have a view.
To celebrate our first 27 releases on Section 27 Netlabel, we proudly present to you "Sectioned", a free compilation of 27 tracks, amounting to 2 hours across two discs of twisted electronic beats, discordant melodies, haunting passages, broken ambience, bending senses of time and space, microscopic glitches, pounding bass frequencies, sounds between sounds, the human voice and the audible sensation of music dissolving in acid. This is the sound of your mind's eye. This is the sound of the Sectioned... Strap yourself in and enjoy the experience.
Also features a 75 minute bonus disc "Sectioned : Nonimxs", including 9 remixes of selected Section 27 artists by Nonima and 2 original tracks created by Silent Snow and Nina Kardec using existing Nonima tracks.
Download and Audio previews available at : http://section27netlabel.blogspot.com
Thanks for your support......OUT NOW !!!!.......MARC FISHER "POINTLESS / SWING" {STILL COOKIN´RECORDS} incl. Roasted & Fried Remix ----- availible at your favourite Recorddealer
Dearest Orchid-Star, Wishing you every success with your debut single "Passion". May you continue to be inspired to make great music. Peace and Everlasting Light to You Always. Bev.
