The Village Orchestra
I Can Hear The Sirens Singing Again

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'I Can Hear The Sirens Singing Again' is a limited to 100 CDr release (packaged lovingly in a slimline dvd cover with awesome manga inspired cover art and snippet of a manga comic book inside) by Glaswegian all-rounder Ruaridh Law under the guise of The Village Orchestra. The project is inspired by a Japanese television show called ‘MPD Psycho’ produced by Takashi Miike (Audition, Ichi The Killer) at the end of the nineties. It sounds like a nutty show that combines tragedy and comedy in equal measures and follows the exploits of a detective who suffers from multiple personality disorder, hence the name 'MPD Psycho' (Multiple Personality Detective Psycho). Ruaridh is the first to admit that this is a vanity project based on his love for the show and i assume thats why it's such a small run of copies. I still think this is totally awesome. It was meant as a live soundtrack to the first episode of the series so it probably works loads better with the accompanying film but as a stand alone release it still holds up. The bulk of the one hour of music is both minimal and industrial with hints of melody occasionally coming to the fore-front, this is all achieved by processing and manipulation of odd and found sounds. A real beast of record thats well worth a peek if your into the ambient end of Nadja's material or you just enjoy excellent soundtrack music. Now I gotsta track down a box set of the series.......

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Glasgow’s Ruaridh Law is as prolific as he is talented, with a multitude of aliases and projects to his name. From the prose inspired electronics of The Marcia Blaine School For Girls, his drone project as Accrual ( with Alasdair Satchel), the infamy of The Village Unit (live spoof ragga collaboration with fellow Marcian, Production Unit), his more techno leaning club sounds as TVO, plus several varied releases to his name as The Village Orchestra.

This project, ‘Sirens..’ was originally inspired after Ruaridh was introduced to the the magical surrealism of Takashi Miike’s ‘MPD Psycho’, a Japanese television series horror/comedy/art masterpiece akin to Lynch producing a mashup of Garth Marenghi vs. ‘The Ring’. From a conversation with one of the organisers of Glasgow’s Triptych festival came the idea to do a live soundtrack to the first episode to the series for one of the Triptych events. For the performance, and appearing on this recording, Ruaridh invited several other friends into the fold, including Konx-om-pax(Display Copy), Production Unit(HPLL), Erstlaub(HPLL), and Chris Dooks(Benbecula).

At just shy of an hour in length, it’s a deathly beautiful journey into sound processing and manipulation, through varying scenes and emotions, sounds and textures slipping into and out of your range of perception; standing aesthetically in it’s own sonic right, but also as an immersive and engaging aural mystery as your brain tries to piece together the sonic c(l)ues into a cohesive narrative.

Physical release is in a limited run of 100 numbered CD-Rs, cased in slimline DVD covers with minimal manga inspired art design from Matheu Ranson, with liner notes about the process and idea from Ruaridh, and also a unique different comic cut-out in each copy.

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