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Bizarre fusion time!! Orchestra of Spheres are an artistic collective from New Zealand (that place that's close to but infinitely better than Australia) and they have garnered quite a rep in their homeland for playing lots and lots of shows and pushing back the barricades of normality (in a musical sense...they aren't getting married to geese or anything!!). They have a very interesting sound, which is very hard to pin down. If you could take the best parts of Devo, marimba music, and mix it with unhinged festival/street party music you might be half way to imagining what these krazy kiwis are doing musically. It has many good moments does this LP, it has interesting song structures, intriguing sounds and enough energy and uptempo stylings to get many parties swinging. Some bits sound very art school which is ace and other parts for some reason make me want to dig out my Santana compilation tape. It doesn't sound like Carlos but it has a definite Latin feel occasionally which is very pleasing. They have been chosen to play at ATP by Caribou...it's all right for some innit!!! I reckon these guys are the Prince Rama it's okay to like...Awesome!!!!!!!!!
Playing House parties, dance parties, DIY shows and opera houses, Orchestra Of Spheres have built a reputation for creating innovative, boundary-pushing music and performances. Now their cosmic dancing sound, pieced together on homemade instruments, is available on record as 'Nonagonic Now', allowing everyone to ride on the psychedelic primary school disco delight that is Orchestra Of Spheres in the comfort of your own universe. Just watch out for the coffee table. Although distinctly their own, the band's sound draws on influences far and wide, with echoes of African rhythms, free jazz textures, electronic dance music, krautrock and Indonesian gamelan music. 'Nonagonic Now' was recorded at the fittingly named Frederick Street Sound and Light Exploration Society, a venue run collectively by the band and others in the Wellington creative music scene. Creative and exploratory it certainly is, to a dazzling level matched only by the sequins and shine of their radiating costumes. If Orchestra Of Spheres illuminate themselves as a stellar, cosmic form, this record is grounded to this earth by a strong rhythmic force, which pumps continually from the opener 'Hypercube'. Setting a subconscious canon for the rest of the album that weaves in and out of tracks, it emerges in hypnotic guise on 'Rotate' and as space funk on 'Hypersphere'. Orchestra Of Spheres are clearly not afraid to experiment with 'Ulululu' mixing homemade snare heavy beats with the classic psych sound only New Zealand can produce. The biscuit tin guitar, electric bass carillon and sexomouse marimba all feature on 'Nonagonic Now', available on CD, LP and Digital Download in November.
1. Hypercube
2. There Is No No
3. Rotate
4. Spontaneous Symmetry
5. Eternal C Of Darkness
6. Hypersphere
7. Isness
8. Toadstone
9. Boltzmann Brain
10. Ulululul
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