Artist: Orenda
Title:
Reverie
Label:
Gravitas Music
Released:
15th November
Orenda
is an unknown entity to me. Perhaps it’s a new face or perhaps a
side project released under a pseudonym from a producer I already
know? What I do know is the aim is a marriage of ethereal voices and
aggressive bass, a battle between light and dark within bass music,
what could loosely be labelled as melodic dub-step.
The
journey begins with the title track where you escorted in by airy
synths, harmonic female ethereal vocals and sparse bleeps. A minute
in and the low frequency bass is dropped. Personally, I didn’t find
it too harsh, in fact it worked just right for me. This is followed
by a collaboration with Equanimous on ‘Mystic Descent’, this
piece initally moves a touch faster with looped sequences and tribal
chants, the track slows down into dub-step and then shuffles in and
out perfectly.
Next
on the agenda is ‘Numinous’ which works a little bit more like I
anticipated. With the lighter melodic passages contrasting against
the heavier and harsher breaks. Whilst ‘Marmoris’ begins in a
style I would compare to the Deepheads label, melodic synths and
vocals slowly unfurling ripples of harsher electronics and bass. That
impression remains with me on ‘Fracture’ and I’m feeling like
I’ve settled into the Orenda sound nicely.
Heading
towards the close of the album and I’m still drawing comparisons to
the deepheads label, especially with the way the soulful vocals stabs
are toyed with over the track. Finally to see us out alongside DTO is
‘Gayatri’ where the bamboo flute intro leads us into similar
territory with an eastern edge.
Reviewed
by Woodzee
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