Ashis Mahapatra - Orange Of

uzasny drone/ambient album, skoda ze som o nom nevedel skor

Working with guitars, computers, samplers, field recordings, sinewaves and sculpted feedback, Ashis Mahapatra's debut, Orange Of was written and recorded over a four year period in New York, Berlin and Delhi. It draws its influences from a wide variety of sources, combining the otherworldly warmth of My Bloody Valentine, the urban euphoria of Glenn Branca while sitting well amongst contemporary drone masters such as Markus Popp or Christian Fennesz. At the same time, it is also heavily indebted to the spirit of Indian classical music, in particular, the work of Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma.

Clocking in at just over 40 minutes, Orange Of is a collection of seven pieces of lush, densely layered drones that combine high-minded computer experiments with a visceral 'rock' sensibility. Frequencies modulate, bend and slowly arc over woozy melodies; phrases that at first seem repititive slowly reveal themselves as multilayered, balancing the fine line between serene hovering and dynamic channel shifting that drops the listener into the wide open field of a surround-sound symphony for the 21st century.

The result is a rainforest from another dimension; the sound of falling rockets, dancing bees and silent meadows deep within abandoned shadows, lost, finding their way amidst burning skies, chaos embracing, careening forth into oblivion.