Rosea
In
this record with Andrew Chalk and Darren Tate play Lol Coxill and Colin Potter.
Music is difficult to describe, but surely full of elves and gnomes.
The back cover of the album
sums it up: "music is difficult to describe, but surely full of Elves and
Gnomes!" And that it is... subterranean drippings, disembodied cackles and
the slow dragging of concrete . Behind it all, a pensive score of shimmering
and hesitating to reveal itself too much for fear of scaring its hosts. A
low, sparse cacaphony of the Old Country, drawn from times long before it was
paved over for easy transit. Ora albums are rather obscure, so best of fortune
in your own sylvan quest.
Ambience for the Masses / Daniel Foley
Ceux qui
connaissent déjà le label Hic Sunt Leones ne devraient pas s'attendre à une
musique trop dure ou trop violente... Et ils auront raison.
Décrit de cette manière, "Rosea" peut sembler etre un album quelque peu hermétique
ou ardu. En réalité il n'en est rien. Le but d'ORA est tout simplement de vous
faire voyager au sein meme de paysages imaginaires et relaxants. Si ce genre d'aventure
intérieure vous tente sans a priori aucun, nul doute qu'ORA parviendra à
remplir ses objectifs.
Ex Machina acte III
On
"Rosea", the english duo of Darren Tate and ex-Organum Andrew Chalk, are
reinforced by Colin Potter and Lol Coxhill. When these creative minds join hands,
the mystical and avant-garde are bound to meet. 'Rosea' is a visionary and
mystical ceremony of concrete rumours, roars and clean atmospherical tunes.
As
the pieces work their way across strange, sinister and sophisticated
environmental soundscapes, they develop a deeply intimate and ritualistic feel,
that transcendent every human rationality and re-establishes that long-forgotten
but extremely precious close relationship we once had with nature. This is an
album that rekindles the spark of a childhood when man still believed in that
magical world inhabited by gnomes and elves!
TDR #5 -1996