Around the next corner, under the surface and just out of reach lies Orbury Common: a world teeming with folklore, paganism, pastoral cults, lost memories and, of course, orbs. Through use of analog synthesis, sample manipulation and field recording techniques, the sound scientists who first unearthed evidence of this strange realm have attempted to extract the electro-acoustic residue left over from the many noisy rites and rituals of its ghostly inhabitants. This process is performed live in a musical seance, in which folk spirits, ancestral beats, and electrostatic interference is plucked from the air and translated into something resembling music.
Orbury FM-4: Stoneage Birdsong
For the inhabitants of Orbury Common, flora and fauna are revered and worshipped above all else. In times of widespread crisis - especially when pandemic is rife - witches consult their familiars; sacrifices are made to the gods and goddesses of the land; and shrines are built in honour of the animal spirits.
Ceremonial music often accompanies these naturalistic rituals, and echoes of these potent spirit-songs have drifted over to our world, in the form of 'Stoneage Birdsong', the fourth in a series of artfully intercepted broadcasts from the strange world of Orbury Common.
Tracklist:
Dragonfly Song - Ursula K. Le Guin Blackwater Side - Anne Briggs Fire Leap - Magnet Eastern System (edit) - Hector Plimmer Who I Am and Why I Am Where I Am - Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Hills - Nisantashi Primary School Hosting - Mica Levi Window Over the Bay - Vashti Bunyan Woodland Band - Graeme Miller & Steve Shill “Instrumentals” Volume 1 - Part 1 - Arthur Russell 저만치 함께 Proximate Distance - Kyungso Park Labyrinth Sounds - Orbury Common Courtyard - Bobbie Gentry Ana Damir El Motakallim - Isaam Hajali Bubbles at Overlook 25th March 2019 - Four Tet Dragons - Princess Nokia Hey, Who Really Cares? - Linda Perhacs Nocturnal Dancer - Anna Homler, Adrian Northover, Dave Tucker Crofters - Unknown Teenage Birdsong - Four Tet All the Tired Horses - Bob Dylan
