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| Location: | London, |
| Country: |  United Kingdom |
| Last Login: | May 27, 2008 (190 days back) |
About Me |
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Orchid-Star was put together by Pete Ardron at the start of 2005, initially as a vehicle to perform music he had written for DJ sets, mostly for chill-out rooms. The sound is lush and colourful with a strong world music influence – Indian, Arabic, Celtic, African and more - fused with everything from psychedelic chill and dub to drum & bass and funk. Part electronic, part live – vocalists – Myo and Samanta Ray, guitar & bass – Pierre Luigi, electric fiddle – Kait Farbon, full-size marimba – Becky Dell, percussionists – Jon Bongly and Becky keyboards - Pete, dancers Diane Everitt and SandRa and occasionally more. Orchid-Star have featured an increasing list of guest performers from here and abroad, vocalists, instrumentalists, dancers and visual artists, giving a real variety to their shows, performing with anything from 3-10 people on stage. Both core members and guests have diverse musical roots, several with classical training and members with backgrounds in rock, reggae, soul, funk, jazz, world and other fields, having played with people as varied as Frank Sinatra(!), Jimi Hendrix(!), Tim Finn of Crowded House, True Life Confessions, Basement Jaxx, Soul2Soul, Hallucinogen and Stomp. Pete’s last major project before this was Glow, well known on the global-dance/world-music scene in the late 90s and with whom several other Orchid-Star members also served time. By the summer of 2005, with a regular core established, the band had started to take on its own sound, identity and direction, moving away from the initial plan and concentrating more on the more up-tempo dancy tracks – a trend reflected in the first new tracks to be written specifically for the Orchid-Star. Highlights of the first year included the main stages at Kingston Green Fair, the London Green Lifestyles Show and Big Green Gathering and the main headline slot on the largest of Glastonbury Festival’s fringe stages, Croissant Neuf where the Orchid-Star and Pete also received about 3 hours of airplay on the festival’s radio station, Radio Avalon. The Orchid-Star are as at home in a club environment as on a festival stage and have played at the Synergy Project, Planet Angel, Acid Monkey, and Edensounds amongst others. 2006 saw the band concentrate mostly ..ing off their first album “Birth”, in Pete’s opinion the best thing he has ever produced – a collection of tracks originally written for sets for Planet Angel, ID Spiral, Bingly Bongly and Liquid Connective While people who have seen the Orchid-Star live will be familiar with most of the tunes on "Birth" they may be surprised to find that, whilst this is still a very rhythmic, big, lush sounding album, it is predominantly down-tempo. This is a legacy of the chill-out roots of this project - the second album, already half-written, promises to a much more up-tempo affair. 2007 has seen Orchid-Star back out live more including performances at Sunrise, Antiworld, Glade, Bowl and Waveform festivals, and clubs like Planet Angel and Synergy with sets ranging from their first full-on dance set to some special performances of ‘Birth’ in it’s entirety The band saw 2008 in in style with 2 gigs in the first 12 hours and on 1st Feb their debut album ‘Birth’ was released on Liquid Sound including a 2nd CD, reBirth, with remixes by Youth, Tripswitch, Kuba, Subsonar and Pete. Their first single ‘Passion’ will be out mid-’08 on Archangel - watch the video below |
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Music:Member Since: 8/29/2006Band Website: orchidstar.info Band Members: Pete Ardron, Kbds and other stuff Myo - vocals Samanta Ray - vocals Pierre Luigi - guitar/bass Jon Bongly - percussion Becky Dell - marimba, other percussion, vocals Kait Farbon - violin other guests and occasionals: Diane Everitt - dancer Sandra Eveno - dancer Sean Spindrift - percussion Bagz - electronic percussion Onyx Ashanti - wind synth Teresa Gabriel - vocals Nalini - vocals Maya Metcalfe - percussion Anna Franklin - visuals Verdi Stewart - trumpet For some reason the player below is not displaying (or playing) properly in Explorer but works fine in Firefox or Netscape (I'll fix it when I can figure it!). Meanwhile you'll find the same player on the OrchidStar.info shop page (click below) ALSO AVAILABLE FOR DIGITAL DOWNLOAD FROM (amongst others) THE FOLLOWING LINKS Record Label: Liquid Sound/Archangel Type of Label: Indie |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| Occupation: | Music Artist (Electronica / Psychedelic / Other) |
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Sunrise Festival |
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| Hey guys, we're very pleased to announce we are going to be playing the FishEatBicyle Stage at the Sunrise Celebration in Somerset on May 31st - June 4th and we would love you to be there with us!!If ... Posted by Orchid-Star on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 01:45:00 PST |
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Pete Ardron, Archangel^, Liquid Sound, samanta ray, jon bongly, Rebecca Dell, Teresa Gabriel, SandRa, Nalini, Deadsilence Syndicate, onyx ashanti's interstellar ribshack, Maya Metcalfe, bruce elliott-smith, The Synergy Project, Liquid Ross, Dreadnaut, kuba, youth, Tripswitch :: Codemonkey :: Nick Brennan, Subsonar, System 7, Herbert Newbert, Afro Celt Sound System, Shulman, Sunrise Celebration 29th May-1st June 2008, Glade Festival, One Tribe Records, WAVEFORM PROJECT, Scriabin, Natacha Atlas, Organismic, Banco de Gaia, Twisted Events, Jurrane, PATHAAN, Antiworld Events, Dj SLY, Subsource, Maria Joao and The Sound Strippers, Projecto Sinergia, YuKAI, Bart Thissen, GLIDE, Sonic Zone, Lele Cecchini, Lab Creation, Plutonic, mrpine3, Ellis, MiKi, Baldego, SPIRIT SOUL, Underground Loophole aka UGLH, Blackring Tones, GILBERTO QUATTROCCHIO, kk77, FotisS, nanoptiq, Macarena, ENITOKWA, karstafari, Noone, Solarity, Chris Ryan - The Illuminati, KAVA KAVA (not 1 but 3 songs in US TV series DIRT), al-andalusfestival, Monolythe, Placid, qwertz, Neil (Jollyhawker), djdavidaubrun, Escobot, mukta, Vital Records & Club Vital, Robert Maelstrom, orange glow, Inspired, 23 Degrees to Vertical, Lekker Belangerijk! :D, Ray-X, Dead Rock Machine "G!!D N!WS" online, UNIVERSAL TAAL PROJECT, SM Xperience, Slow, Miroslav Terzin, Markus Engl, CJ?Kruger, i3 - NEW Techno and i3 Discog on Snocap!, Half Man, Half Machine
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