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Artist: Aria Orion
Album: Let The Sharp Stone Fly
Label: Unsigned
Playtime: 33:40 min
Genre: Indie
URL:
Rip date: 2009-02-19
Street date: 2008-00-00
Size: 44.75 MB
Type: Normal
Quality: 176 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo
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ARIA ORION, a new project from composer and performer Jules Gimbrone, weaves
mystical tales with experimental arrangements, orchestral dramatics, and
soulful melodic phrasing. In the fall of 2008 they recorded an epic narrative
entitled, Let the Sharp Stone Fly.
ôThe music is an acoustic dream of eerie, ethereal, bold movements and
spine-tingling combination of instruments. Jules emotional shaky high vocal
range turns and twists within and mysteriously edges around the
instrumentation.ö (Obsession Collection, 2008)
Blending emotive vocals, oboe, upright bass, accordion, drums, violin and
electric guitar/lap steel, ARIA ORION achieves an arc of textures unique in
vision and scope. Poetics of lyrics and instrumentation usher the listener
into a world of startling discoveries, each section peeling away a new layer
of luminosity and exploration. The experimental nature of instrumentation is
juxtaposed with the soothing, familiar cooing of primordial vocal melodies
and song structuring.
Let the Sharp Stone Fly is the first of a series of aural narratives existing
within an ethereal, albeit physically imperative, context. A mountain,
shrouded in pines, cut-off from civilization sets the stage for the
characters of Let the Sharp Stone Fly. Where a pubescent boy, amatory
rabbit, androgynous sooth-sayer (augur), fearful town, and a fleet of
birds-turned-missiles all collide. With these encounters, Let the Sharp
Stone Fly, performs acts of violence and redemption all in the name of love.
A perpetual loneliness is at the heart of this piece, with the characters
exhibiting an array of desperate and sometimes destructive attempts at
connection, both internally and externally. Reckoning and accepting opposing
forces (i.e. dark/light, male/female, I/you, chaos/control,
experimentation/predictability) shine through as the universal imperative of
the piece.
- Track List ---------------------------------------------------------------- -
01. Dark and Light ( 5:41)
02. Let the Sharp Stone Fly ( 7:01)
03. When I Wake ( 4:33)
04. Augur ( 6:58)
05. Metal Birds ( 5:10)
06. One By One ( 4:17)
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