A Sense of Doubt blog post #2505 - William Orbit - Musical Monday for 2112.27

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2505 - William Orbit - Musical Monday for 2112.27

I want to share about an artist that I adore. But first, a friend asked me to create a musical lineup with bands or musicians using the first letter of my name, like this:

Cocteau Twins

Hooverphonic

Roxy Music

Imogen Heap

Stereolab

Okay, I want to share about WILLIAM ORBIT.

I am pretty sure this story details how I learned of William Orbit.

I used to subscribe to a magazine called Details. You may remember it.

Usually, I did not use reviews to discover music. Usually, one band led to another, one musician led to another. Friend and most often girlfriend recommendations were often powerful. My love of the Jam and discovery of Japan and David Sylvian came from one girlfriend. Martha and the Muffins from another. Everything But the Girl, the Smith, Love and Rockets, and a few others from another girlfriend.

Being a David Bowie fan led me to Brian Eno and Robert Fripp among many others.

Though there were times I discovered bands or artists by just snagging interesting albums based on names and covers in the music store. This is how I first learned of Peter Gabriel, Pink Floyd, and really, even Bruce Springsteen. Certainly it is how I came to know and love Cabaret Voltaire, the Residents, Meat Beat Manifesto, and Ministry.

In this case, it was Details magazine. I saw two reviews that sparked my interest. One was for an album by someone named Lori Carson and entitled Everything I Touch Runs Wild, and the other was for Beth Orton and an album called Trailer Park. The review talked about the producer, William Orbit, and how he was working with MADONNA to produce an album that would become Ray of Light, possibly the only Madonna album I really like.

I went to the local music store and bought both albums.

I cannot remember if I started buying William Orbit work after discovering him as producer of Beth Orton or after he produced Madonna's album.

Strange Cargo III had come out before he produced either of these women. So, I bought it at some point followed by Strange Cargo and later as they came out Pieces in a Modern Style I and II, Hello Waveforms, and My Oracle Lives Uptown.

I do really love all this work. Strange Cargo III was a favorite until Hello Waveforms came out and then it became one of my favorite albums of all time. Though it did not make my top twenty, it was on the alternate list for the "top tier" as explained in T-shirt #97 Kraftwerk.

I strongly recommend all this music, especially Hello Waveforms.

https://www.williamorbit.com/

https://www.instagram.com/williamorbit/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Orbit

And now, I see Orbit has released a new EP!!




EP TRACKLIST

01 - Starbeam
02 - Wordsworth
03 - Diso
04 - Águilas (feat. Lido Pimientia)
05 - Starbeam (Extended Mix by Shocklee)
06 - Águilas (Instrumental Mix)

Anjunadeep · The Anjunadeep Edition 377 with William Orbit

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William Orbit - Starbeam (Extended Mix by Shocklee) [Official Music Video]

Premiered Nov 19, 2021

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Multiple Grammy-award winning writer, composer, producer, and performer William Orbit is considered a pioneer of electronic music and one of contemporary pop’s most innovative artists. He now returns with a 4-track EP ‘Starbeam’ set for release December 1st via Anjunadeep, with the single of the same name out today, November 19th. 

 

In a career spanning 40 years, his influence is insurmountable. Producing some of pop music’s most seminal records - Madonna’s ‘Ray Of Light’ and ‘MDNA’, Blur’s ‘13’, Robbie Williams’ ‘Rudebox’, Finley Quaye’s ‘Dice’, Pink’s ‘Feel Good Time’ and All Saints’ ‘Testament’ to name a few - he has won 3 Grammy Awards and been nominated a further 5 times, with work on albums by U2, Britney Spears, Beth Orton, Queen, and Michael Jackson. Immersed in classical, pop, and electronic worlds, his contributions to contemporary music illustrate a great cadence of alchemic studio fusions and what he calls ‘curating serendipity’. Returning with the 4-track EP ‘Starbeam’, William’s first solo release in seven years, this marks his Anjunadeep debut. 

 

His first solo release in seven years, ’Starbeam’ is the latest triumph in a career that’s birthed 11 solo studio albums and 7 ensemble albums as a member of Bassomatic, Strange Cargo, and Torch Song, and the influential Guerrilla Records label. Demonstrating his soulful ear for authenticity and creativity, ’Starbeam’ is an all-enveloping musical journey that sends the listener hurtling through the stratosphere. Mastered in Dolby Atmos 360 audio, ’Starbeam’ conveys William's unquenched fascination into the minute details and continued refusal to stop experimenting. 

 

As impressive as it is, William’s production work is only one aspect of a life spent entrenched in the forefront of the electronic landscape, pushing the music and culture further and further beyond its perceived dancefloor boundaries. As one of the most influential forefathers of the essential post-rave and back-to-mine soundtrack, his ambient, downbeat ‘Strange Cargo’ album series was intrinsically rooted and referenced in the 90s ambient, chill-out, and Balearic movements. Similarly, William’s 1995 seminal album ‘Pieces In A Modern Style’ conveyed a never-before-seen fusion of classical and electronic, where classical arrangements were transposed in the most modern and futuristic way, laying the foundations that composers such as Nils Frahm and Jon Hopkins build on today. His work in this field remains matchless, yet was created with no formal training in musical theory whatsoever. With a combination of his soulful ear for authenticity, scientific eye for schematics, an innovative ability to join consistent dots between disparate worlds in a transient universe, and a spirit for breaking rules; William Orbit is a maverick conductor, engineer, and artist with an unquenched fascination into both the micro and macro details of anything he’s creating. 

Release date: 19 November 2021

Hello Waveforms - by William Orbit

TRACK LIST:

[1] Sea Green 

[2] Surfin

[3] You Know Way Too Much About Flying Saucers

[4] Spiral (feat. Kenna & Sugababes)

[5] Who Owns The Octopus

[6] Bubble Universe

[7] Fragamosia

[8] Firebrand

[9] They Live In The Sky

[10] Colours from Nowhere

William Orbit posted Krampus on his Instagram:

SOME OF WILLIAM ORBIT'S ART WORK:

Molecules Of Sound

Oct 16, 2020

William Orbit

Video only, no audio.

TO GET EACH INDIVIDUAL PIECE CLICK HERE:

https://www.williamorbit.com/art/

Happy final Monday of 2021.

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