Prism - Citrus Coloured Vinyl - Sealed

THE ORB Prism (Indie Store Exclusive 2023 UK/EU limited edition 9-track double album 2-LP pressed on Citrus Coloured Vinyl, their pulsating 18th album and the thrid helmed by duo Alex Paterson and Michael Rendall. Single pocket picture sleeve with yellow hype sticker, factory sealed)

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Release Date 28th Apr 2023
Release Year 2023 - 1 years ago
Condition Unless stated otherwise in the description above, all items are in at least excellent condition - so please read our descriptions carefully. We try to sell items as close to Mint condition as possible, and many will indeed be close to brand new and/or unplayed. Others may be 'used' - and all will meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed.
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Format 2-LP vinyl record set (Double LP Album)
Record Label Cooking Vinyl
Complete Stock List Go to The Orb
Product Catalogue No COOKLP865X
Music Genre Dance, Techno & Trance, Ambient
Country Comes from UK Comes from 'UK'
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Tracklisting & More Information

On Prism, The Orb’s pulsating discography grows ever more huge, with their 18th album, and 3rd helmed by core duo Alex Paterson and Michael Rendall. Despite the connotations of its title, here they continue to rollick freely without inhibition across ambient, house and dub, but also tangent into poetry, pop, full-blown drum ‘n’ bass and actual reggae.

The LP features electronic musicians David Harrow (whose CV includes Anne Clarke, Psychic TV, Razormaid, Adrian Sherwood and Andy Weatherall) and Gaudi (whose credits include Max Romeo, Capleton, Johnny Clarke and Desmond Dekker). Other guests include Orb regular Youth, violinist Violeta Vicci, Kompakt records alumnus Leonardo Fresco, Metamono man Jono Podmore, Guitarist and Alex’s old schoolchum David Lofts, plus vocalists Eric Von Skywalker, Andy Cain and Rachel D’arcy.

Prism begins with the epic winding journey of ‘H.O.M.E’, which features a poem by Paterson, and traverses through dark ambient into star-surfing Fingers-style house, before ‘Why Can You Be In Two Places At Once...’ kicks into a funked-up, afrobeaty chug.

With Paterson’s decades-long love for Jamaican music and output oft drenched in the dubwise, it should come as little surprise that The Orb have now gone full reggae, on the ebullient nostalgia tale of Von Skywalker’s youthful romance, ‘A Ghetto Love Story’.

The album then disappears down a wormhole of rubadub head-music called ‘Picking Tea and Chasing Butterfiles’, which sounds like Colourbox meets Popul Vuh in Shanghai, and also echoes back to Weatherall’s Ultrabass II remix of ‘Perpetual Dawn’.

Flipping the script entirely, by sprinkling a large bag of disco dust, is the slinky boogie wonderland of ‘Tiger’ (the name and nickname of Paterson’s son and late brother respectively), which juxtaposes but somehow coheres with the melodica-tinged thunderous bass music of ‘Dragon Of Oceans’ and it’s Sirius B gazing wordplay.

The expertly-executed, floaty 90s trance dance of ‘The Beginning Of The End’ works very nicely within its own familiar parameters; which contrasts sharply with ‘Living In Recycled Times’, which ignites over ten plus minutes into fully-fledged, rave-ready D&B fire, which although out of their comfort zone still sounds very Orb.

Music for the ‘Prism’ of your mind, the album ends with its title track – a big ambient epic in done in fine style – as awe inspiring as the cold, infinite expanse from whence it came.

Cell A
1. H.O.M.E (High Orbs Mini Earths)
2. Why Can You Be In Two Places At Once, When You Can’t Be Anywhere At All… Where’s Gary mix

Cell B
3. A Ghetto Love Story
4. Picking Tea Leaves & Chasing Butterflies
5. Tiger

Cell C
6. Dragon Of The Ocean (Dogon Mix)
7. The Beginning Of The End

Cell D
8. Living In Recycled Times
9. Prism

DOUBLE LP  
Recording Artist The Orb
Product Title Prism - Citrus Coloured Vinyl - Sealed
Product Information The Orb Prism - Citrus Coloured Vinyl - Sealed UK 2-LP vinyl record set (Double LP Album).
Language All tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
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