Re: The Orb...

[improv@peak.org (Dave Trenkel)]

>Hey guys, I'm really into Torn, Fripp, Abercrombie, Frisell, Eno, etc.  
>I've
>heard about The Orb, but don't know what they're like.  Kinda like Ozric
>Tentacles meets Eno, maybe?!  Who else might anyone recommend to satiate 
>my
>desire for tasteful looping (I can't find a copy of Polytown anywhere!!!).
> Thanks for any help...
>
>
>Brian

I think the Orb are pretty much in a class of their own. Orbus Terrarum is
my favorite of their records, but they're all pretty good.

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"...there will come a day when you won't have to use
gasoline. You'd simply take a cassette and put it in
your car, let it run. You'd have to have the proper
type of music. Like you take two sticks, put 'em
together, make fire. You take some notes and rub 'em
together - dum, dum, dum, dum - fire, cosmic fire."
                                            -Sun Ra
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