stimpee
12-13-2005, 04:18 AM
I've been a big fan of The Village Orchestra for most of this year. One of the best discoveries for sure. Thanks to Professor for the heads up. The Village Orchestra also have an album out which is pure gold, Et In Arcadia Ego.
Anyway, a live set appeared on the official Village Orchestra (http://ruaridh.marciablaine.com/) site but disappeared shortly after. Luckily this was re-released as a podcast on the wonderfully offbeat Flight Dynamics (http://www.offnominal.com/blog/) blog (check out their podcasts!). Here's the blurb:
The Village Orchestra
"This time, a live set from The Village Orchestra (Ruaridh Law from The Marcia Blaine School for Girls) as performed on the Electromagnetic radio show on July 26 2005. Many, many thanks to Ruaridh for offering up his sets for re-transmission here. It includes material from his forthcoming CD due out on Highpoint Lowlife entitled Et In Arcadia Ego. Make sure to check it out and offer your support by handing over your hard earned dollars on this sure-to-be excellent release.
For those of you that dig on descriptions, this set is a very atmospheric-style idm mix, with nice electro drum crispness submerged among mutating synth pads, string swells and the occasional vocal break. The mood doesn’t stay in one place, with some nice James Brown spotting hiphopness creeping in later in the mix.
Here’s the tracklist:"
In Arcadia (from forthcoming Et In Arcadia Ego album)
Many Rooms In My Fathers House (from EIAE)
What Time Is Made Of (from forthcoming Square Roots compilation 12inch)
(Production Unit talks about Freemasonry)
Ruskia demo version 3 (unreleased)
(Agent Cooper/Chris Isaak)
Jacob / Bad Hand At Cards (from EIAE)
(William S Burroughs - Bradley the Buyer excerpt)
Right Wing Fear of Hiphop (unreleased)
Sudoku is the Opiate of the Middle Classes (unreleased)
(Inner City - Good Life)
Red Lever (from Stuff Records 003 compilation 12inch)
I love this mix and the only thing wrong with it is the fact that its too short at 41mins. What he does with Wicked Game and Good Life are absolute brilliance, transforming them into something new. The rest of the tracks make for a rollercoaster of beats.
Anyway, here's the link (http://www.offnominal.com/blog/2005/09/21/episode-7-the-village-orchestra/). Knock yourself out.
If youre interested after this in hearing stuff from Et In Arcadia Ego then you can find two full tracks at the Highpoint Lowlife website here (http://www.highpointlowlife.com/webreleases/thevillageorchestra_hpw004/thevillageorchestra_hpw004.html) and a couple more tracks here (http://www.highpointlowlife.com/webreleases/xmascomp_hpa009/xmascomp_hpa009.html) and here (http://www.8bitrecs.com/cgi-bin/artinfo.cgi?artist=The+Village+Orchestra), which should be enough reason to order the album :) clicky (http://www.highpointlowlife.com/hpll014.shtml)
Uncut magazine said:
"Should Ridley Scott ever wish to rework his visionary sci-fi picture, Blade Runner, he need look no further than Glasgow-based Ruardih Law to score the flight of his cameras over futuristic skylines. As the Village Orchestra, Law has crafted a debut varied in hue and texturally rich, where sound transcends invisible waves to send one spiralling into their imagination's deepest recesses. It's perfect silver screen fodder, it's glotch-afflicted tangents a thoroughly modern update on Vangelis, et al. Technically accomplished but absolutely organic in its song-to-song sequencing. 'Et in Arcadia Ego' is a triumph of bedroom experimentation over big-budget orchestration"
Anyway, a live set appeared on the official Village Orchestra (http://ruaridh.marciablaine.com/) site but disappeared shortly after. Luckily this was re-released as a podcast on the wonderfully offbeat Flight Dynamics (http://www.offnominal.com/blog/) blog (check out their podcasts!). Here's the blurb:
The Village Orchestra
"This time, a live set from The Village Orchestra (Ruaridh Law from The Marcia Blaine School for Girls) as performed on the Electromagnetic radio show on July 26 2005. Many, many thanks to Ruaridh for offering up his sets for re-transmission here. It includes material from his forthcoming CD due out on Highpoint Lowlife entitled Et In Arcadia Ego. Make sure to check it out and offer your support by handing over your hard earned dollars on this sure-to-be excellent release.
For those of you that dig on descriptions, this set is a very atmospheric-style idm mix, with nice electro drum crispness submerged among mutating synth pads, string swells and the occasional vocal break. The mood doesn’t stay in one place, with some nice James Brown spotting hiphopness creeping in later in the mix.
Here’s the tracklist:"
In Arcadia (from forthcoming Et In Arcadia Ego album)
Many Rooms In My Fathers House (from EIAE)
What Time Is Made Of (from forthcoming Square Roots compilation 12inch)
(Production Unit talks about Freemasonry)
Ruskia demo version 3 (unreleased)
(Agent Cooper/Chris Isaak)
Jacob / Bad Hand At Cards (from EIAE)
(William S Burroughs - Bradley the Buyer excerpt)
Right Wing Fear of Hiphop (unreleased)
Sudoku is the Opiate of the Middle Classes (unreleased)
(Inner City - Good Life)
Red Lever (from Stuff Records 003 compilation 12inch)
I love this mix and the only thing wrong with it is the fact that its too short at 41mins. What he does with Wicked Game and Good Life are absolute brilliance, transforming them into something new. The rest of the tracks make for a rollercoaster of beats.
Anyway, here's the link (http://www.offnominal.com/blog/2005/09/21/episode-7-the-village-orchestra/). Knock yourself out.
If youre interested after this in hearing stuff from Et In Arcadia Ego then you can find two full tracks at the Highpoint Lowlife website here (http://www.highpointlowlife.com/webreleases/thevillageorchestra_hpw004/thevillageorchestra_hpw004.html) and a couple more tracks here (http://www.highpointlowlife.com/webreleases/xmascomp_hpa009/xmascomp_hpa009.html) and here (http://www.8bitrecs.com/cgi-bin/artinfo.cgi?artist=The+Village+Orchestra), which should be enough reason to order the album :) clicky (http://www.highpointlowlife.com/hpll014.shtml)
Uncut magazine said:
"Should Ridley Scott ever wish to rework his visionary sci-fi picture, Blade Runner, he need look no further than Glasgow-based Ruardih Law to score the flight of his cameras over futuristic skylines. As the Village Orchestra, Law has crafted a debut varied in hue and texturally rich, where sound transcends invisible waves to send one spiralling into their imagination's deepest recesses. It's perfect silver screen fodder, it's glotch-afflicted tangents a thoroughly modern update on Vangelis, et al. Technically accomplished but absolutely organic in its song-to-song sequencing. 'Et in Arcadia Ego' is a triumph of bedroom experimentation over big-budget orchestration"