oRSo v DL II (aka oRSo 9 Altered)

by oRSo v DL

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Villa Gest 03:28
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2.
The Walrus 05:04
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SYDATT 10:12
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4.
Elephant Grass 03:16
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5.
I Forgot It 01:57
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More Cones 02:39
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Does It Smell To 04:32
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Jambo 02:38
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Birds For Ust 04:16
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Shrug & Grin 01:36
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The Walrus Won 03:44
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12.
Bills Not Happy 04:16
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13.
Many Problems 02:56
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Bunch Of Sneakers 03:44
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15.
Does It Smell Rendered 04:08
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16.
Another Jim Rendered 03:12
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17.
Going To Cambodia 01:56
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18.
Birds Won Orange 04:21
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19.
SYDATTII 03:52
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20.
Horse Nails 03:07
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21.
There Can Only Be Suffering 04:48
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about

On the oRSo bandcamp page, they write of this, 9, their ninth album:

"This is oRSo's only all instrumental studio recording. All basic tracks were performed live by the band with minimal overdubs."

Here at the MVM we write of it:

go buy the original album at orso3.bandcamp.com

It is brilliant.
No, srsly, we think it is a masterpiece of the chamber folk genre.

When it was being recorded, The MVM was living on the road. We didn't make it into Chicago to record on this album. oRSo, instead, sent us the files in early mix stage, and asked us to contribute elements.
Being somewhat maximalist (have you noticed this about us?), we contributed elements to the first two tracks, and then we created two massive suites of storytelling sound out of the remaining tracks we were sent.
Essentially, we ignored the request to participate as part of the band, and just turned everything we were sent into a bizzaro anti-humanist folk opera. (This will sound eerily familiar to everyone who has worked with us in the last couple decades. Or maybe not so much eerily familiar as terribly triggering.)

The genius of Griffin and Phil on receiving our "contributions" was to quietly set them aside and finish the album they were working on, as opposed to starting to work on the new album we proposed. At The MVM, we like to think they recognized that, as will be the case with any musician in the improv world, our greatest contribution in the moment was to be silent and let the other cats play; to listen.

Good call, gents!

Meanwhile, over the ensuing years, oRSo 9 (Altered) could frequently be heard playing in The MVM gift store. It is an album we adore. And one that no one else on Earth has heard before now.

Thank you to Phil for giving us permission to put it up here.

Track 21 is a teaser. Long ago, we started remixing "9" from the roots up. "There Can Only Be Suffering" was the sole song we completed before a drive failure derailed us. Our backup drive, across the country, remained untouched for far too long, and when recovered, was ignored, as new projects had drawn our attention, brief as it is.
Revisiting "9 (Altered)", inspired us to load the remix project back into Ableton for completion! Before year's end we hope to finally release the long awaited by us, but unbeknownst to all others, "Nine Disembowelments Of Spirit"!!!

credits

released March 5, 2009

Phil Spirito - Guitars
Jim Elkington - Guitars
Anthony Burton - Bass and Piano
Libby Reed - Cello and Vocals
Dylan Ryan - Drums
Dave David McDonnell - Clarinet, saxophone, and piano
Recorded, mixed and Mastered by Griffin Rodriguez at Shape Shoppe in Chicago, and then
Defiled by The MVM

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Electroacoustic, ecoacoustic, concrete musique, noisechestra. The last 100 years of western classical music stitched to a lifetime in noise & experimental

Conceptual music built from field recordings

Sound art for dreaming, drifting, disappearing

Ritual magick, slow to cast; slow to coalesce

Invocations unintended for human ears

Music in geologic time

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