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From the tangled threads of Brunswick’s derelict textile mills come The Orbweavers with their debut album Graphite & Diamonds.
The Orbweavers formed around 2006 when Marita Dyson & Stuart Flanagan began humming along to the corrugated iron reverb and sewing machines ghosts of Brunswick. They recruited friends Dave Leggatt (Mercury Spectres) on drums, Paddy Mann (Grand Salvo) on bass, and Dan Aulesbrook on trumpet to complete a quintet, playing launch supports for Luluc, Amaya Laucirica and Holly Throsby before recording Graphite & Diamonds at the 5th Brunswick Scout Hall, later mixed by Casey Rice.
Graphite & Diamonds is a collection of 11 dark and dulcet songs straight from the abandoned knitting mills of Brunswick: a world of chiming pins and needle electric guitar, haunted violin bequeathed by nuns, runaway vines, mystery, and fittingly in this international year of astronomy 2009, the Moon.
"If you have a yearning to plunge into some intense daydreaming, you should definitely have a soundtrack to achieve this to. Graphite and Diamonds is that soundtrack. Atmospheric and spooky, if this album was a thing, it would be a ladybeetle with long eyelashes, knitting a shawl of silver and gold." Jenny O'Keefe, CD reviewer for Cherrie & presenter of Local and Vocal, JOY 94.9
Some bands The Orbweavers have played with:
Grand Salvo, Luluc, Oliver Mann, Amaya Laucirica, Khancoban, Blessington, Holly Throsby, Penny Ikinger, Silver City Highway, Clinkerfield, Andrew McCubbin, Mysteries, The Stream, Conway Savage, Maurice Frawley, Gaslight Radio, The Spoils and The Dumb Earth.
Graphite & Diamonds can be purchased from good record shops or online from our website
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