William Orbit - Hello Waveforms
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Artist: William OrbitEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-02-21
Music Label: Sanctuary Records
Soundtracks:
- Sea Green
- Humming Chorus
- Surfin'
- You Know Too Much About Flying Saucers
- Spiral
- Who Owns The Octopus?
- Bubble Universe
- Fragmosia
- Firebrand
- They Live In The Sky
- Colours From Nowhere
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Free Music Review: A sonic swim...
Hit: 4 Stars
Producer William Orbit was responsible for most of Madonna's "Ray of light" album, as well as All Saints (UK #1 "Pure shores" among them), Blur ("13"), Pink ("Feel good time"), Robbie Williams (a couple of his "Rudebox" tracks), and Sugababes (on their new CD "Change") to mention a few.
"Hello waveforms" is a collection of largely instrumental slow or midtempo Chillout songs featuring the swirling electronic effects he's known for, a few hummed ethereal harmonies here and there ("Surfin", "Who owns the octopus"), acoustic guitar ("You know too much about flying saucers"), and loads of piano, giving a floaty, dreamy feel to the music, in keeping with the album's aquatic theme. Never having heard his previous solo efforts (unlike loads of reviewers here), I had nothing to compare it to and just (pardon the pun) went with the flow.
A few tracks have actual singing, "Spiral" featuring Sugababes and kenna is an ambient number with a faintly Middle eastern feel, and slightly distorted vocals. The Madonna-sounding slowed down "Bubble universe" features Laurie Mayer singing sparse lyrics (with a deep bassline under all those undulating electronic effects). This was apparently previously recorded by Madonna as the unreleased "Liquid love" but having heard that song, I don't see too much similarity. Her "Future love" from "Confessions on a dancefloor" sounds closer to it in parts (though Orbit wasn't involved in that).
"They live in the sky" features Annette and Paulette Morris is definitely the standout; ethereal vocals, against gently pulsing beats, softly jangling guitars, and a chilled underwater soundscape full of tinkling effects.
Now that there's gear to waterproof iPods so you can go swimming with them, this would be the perfect soundtrack to go drifting away to with not a care in the world!
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The first of what producer/composer William Orbit has described as his "binary" recordings for 2006 (this component arriving in February, the altogether different Cellcloud in May), Hello Waveforms is a work of subtle charms, brainy noodlings, and no landmark tracks. It yields understated pleasures to listeners itching to hear smartly conceived chillout electronica that evokes serenity minus lethargy (witness the percolating atmospherics of "Sea Green" and the richly textured headphone sojourn of "Who Owns the Octopus"). Yet while the overall experience is inherently enjoyable, some of Orbit's synth voices sound weirdly dated, as though an analog Moog (or Casio keyboard) had been revived to create some of the textures that swirl through his otherwise sophisticated sound fields. At such moments fans might envision this much-respected self-described "knob-twiddling producer chap" wearing an throwback athletic jersey as he injects Atari music into a PlayStation world, then packaging it all quite appropriately with a semi-psychedelic go-go fairy on the disc's cover. Often lovely, occasionally tepid, with nine instrumentals and two vocal tracks that more often float and meander rather than pulse and evolve, the slow-tempo Hello Waveforms stands as an intriguing project that has the ability to both engage and perplex fans of this sagacious studio wizard. --Terry WoodDance & DJ Music CDs
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