“
howdy
do to you all, here's a little something to brighten up your weekends
the marathon project that is C BATTER C has finally come to fruition and is
in the malicious shop ready to order - it's another beautious malicious package
and
each copy bought directly from malicious damage will include a unique
personalised numbered bookplate... and all orders received before 24th october
will be signed by the orb & me:
http://www.maliciousdamage.biz/shop
that's it for now, but watch out for the screen video coming
your way soon followed by the digital single
cheers,
colesy
here's the official word on the matter:
THE ORB | C BATTER C | RELEASED 11.11.11
Cat no: MD704
Artist: The Orb
Title: C BATTER C
Label: malicious
Damage Records
Release date: 11.11.11
Barcode: 5060174952678
Territory: World
Format: CD+60pp Hardback Book+DVD; Download
Distributor: Cargo
AUDIO TRACKLISTING
1 Battersea Bunches Original Soundtrack, 17m 28s
2 To Battersea With
Bunches [HFB remix], 6m 03s
3 Meandering Through The Emerald Turf
[Gaudi remix], 5m 09s
4 Brixton Hundreds [David Harrow remix], 4m 39s
5
Latchmere Allotments [Nocturnal Sunshine remix], 4m 02s
6 Red House, Brown
Dog [Being remix], 4m 59s
7 Beyond the Legend of the Battersea Asparagus
Triangle [Autolump remix], 8m 15s
8 Batter C Bunny's Munching Orbular Marrow
Mix [Thomas Fehlmann], 9m 03s
DVD TRACKLISTING
1 Battersea Bunches original film [17m 40s]
2 Esmerelda's Turf [5m
09s]
3 Nocturnal Bunch [4m 02]
4 Brixton to Harrow [4m 39s]
Having spent over two decades fast forwarding the future while looking at
the world through its own inimitable super-telescope, The Orb's next album
project returns to Earth and also goes back in time as Alex Paterson teams up
with graphic artist/video maker Mike Coles to release C Batter C, a powerfully
evocative audio-visual celebration of family, vanishing London and times gone
by. Released on November 11 [11,11,11], the unique package is the physical
manifestation of Battersea Bunches, the film shown at Brixton's Red Gate Gallery
last December along with an exhibition of related visuals by Colesy. The
soundtrack is a 17-minute, specially-written piece by Alex and esteemed
Berlin-based electronic pioneer Thomas Fehlmann, an Orb satellite member for
over 20 years, now accompanied by a string of remixes which home in on the
track's constantly morphing moods and take them further out in total sympathy.
While the world gets increasingly more snarled up in instant hit gratification
and soul-sucking technology, thankfully there are still corresponding currents
in art and music which cast back to simpler, more innocent times; recalling
childhood glimmers, mysterious half-memories and indelible images. On another
level, these can be haunting and irreplaceable, especially when of a vanished
location or dear friend or relative no longer here. Using the derelict but still
imposing shell of Battersea Power station as centre-piece, the 17-minute film is
based on Super 8 footage shot by Alex's Aunt Lil of a 1956 family day out led by
his father. The three kids - his brother Martin and cousins Sue and Jen - are
obviously having a great time feeding the ducks in Battersea Park [overseen by
the still-billowing power station] and pigeons in Trafalgar Square, along with a
journey along the River Thames from Battersea to Greenwich, taking in other
London landmarks such as Tower Bridge, St Paul's Cathedral and Big Ben, the same
spots effectively cut between then and now. The film is, in turn trippy,
fascinating, emotions-stoking and sometimes incredibly poignant, lingering long
after it's finished, bound to inspire similar warm memories for the viewer. It's
without doubt the most personal project that Alex has embarked upon, Colesy
surpassing himself on the editing. Alex and Thomas' hauntingly atmospheric
soundtrack is a remarkable counterpart to the film, veering from spectral
mood-enhancing to beautifully melodic, the marching band sequence a particularly
nagging half-memory. The CD features the original soundtrack along with an
electronica-spanning bevy of remixes by Gaudi, H.F.B., David Harrow, Nocturnal
Sunshine, Autolump, Being and Fehlmann/Orb, ranging from ghostly dubstep to
contagious techno-boogie. These are producers which the Orb loves and trusts
implicitly; not one fails to to turn up trumps. The DVD boasts the original film
plus three video mixes and both discs come in a gorgeous 60-page hardback book
[the cover based on Alex's father's pilot's log-book] featuring Colesy's
film-related images, plus poetry and musings by Alex and his Aunt Lil. Such
love, care and intricacy is a rare thing in the modern world. The Orb and
Malicious Damage are about to unleash a new kind of time capsule classic. Even
by referencing the past, the future can still be
prodded.”