Tourdaten und neues etwas morbides Video: O.R.k.
Hier die O.R.k. Tourdaten und das brandneue Video aus dem remasterten Debütalbum der Band:
O.R.k - PYRE (taken from Inflamed Rides)
https://youtu.be/ORHqfWYVSag
Remastered Album bestellen: https://ork.lnk.to/InflamedRides
O.R.k. - live 2023
präsentiert von eclipsed
12.04. Aschaffenburg - ColosSaal
13.04. Pratteln (CH) - Z7
14.04. Stuttgart - Jugendhaus Mitte
Tickets: https://www.bandsintown.com/a/12115353
Following on from the release of their newest album ‘Screamnasium’ in late 2022, we take you back to the very beginning with the first ever track penned by O.R.k.
Taken from O.R.k’s debut release Inflamed Rides (2015), ‘Pyre’ shares a sentimental space in the band’s heart. Aside from being the first song that the band completed together, it was also the first track that the world heard from the then new outfit. ‘Pyre’, along with the rest of the Inflamed Rides album benefits from an updated remix and remaster, and a long overdue reissue on both CD and limited edition blue vinyl.
The video, created by Nanà Oktopus Dalla Porta of Oktopus Productions allows space for an ambiguous interpretation, but is centralised around the theme of anonymity and the need to question the ideals of both leaders and followers, whatever their ideologies may be.
Colin Edwin, O.R.k bassist states :
“Pyre has always had a special place in the O.R.k. timeline as it was the first song we completed together, and also the first song we released to the wider world. As well as recognising and discovering our own musical chemistry, we were carried along by the very enthusiastic response to Pyre and the accompanying video on it's first release. As we've explored the music live, Pyre has frequently taken up a special point in our live sets, often expanding to a long and evolving peak moment.
The Pyre video features an ambiguous lead character, someone who appears to be somewhat of an outsider. The visuals invite multiple interpretations, is our man an outcast, shamed by his actions? or a prophet before his time, an independent voice refusing to conform, who the crowd have ignored at their own peril?”
The band will soon be embarking on a European tour alongside a date at London’s Indigo at the O2 for Prognosis festival. This will be the band’s first live shows since 2019’s ‘Ramagehead’ and will be a co-headline run with French contemporary Rock trio Lizzard
Das aktuelle Album von ex-Porcupine Tree Bassist Colin Edwin, award-winning Komponist und Sänger LEF, King Crimson’s Pat Mastelotto, und Marta Sui Tubi’s Carmelo Pipitone.
O.R.k. – "Screamnasium" (Kscope/Edel) – überall erhältlich
https://ork.lnk.to/Screamnasium
- "Screamnasium" ist bis jetzt O.R.k’s essentiellstes Album. Fast spontan, jedoch komplex geschmiedet.
- mit Gastauftritten von Grammy winning Stimmenphänomen Elisa (Django Unchained Soundtrack) und Cello Virtuose Jo Quail.
- gemastert von Machine (Lamb of God, King Crimson, Clutch) mit einem Artwork von Adam Jones (von Tool) und Marvel/DC Comics Illustrator Denis Rodier
O.R.k. - "Don’t Call Me A Joke" (official music video)
https://youtu.be/uuiubi2idrw
O.R.k. - "As I Leave" (official music video)
https://youtu.be/UpMWgHUsSPs
O.R.k. are:
Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari a.k.a LEF - lead vocals
Pat Mastelotto – drums (Mr. Mister, King Crimson, XTC, The Rembrandts)
Colin Edwin – bass (Porcupine Tree)
Carmelo Pipitone – guitars
1. As I Leave [03:57]
2. Unspoken Words [03:39]
3. Consequence (feat. Elisa) [04:11]
4. I Feel Wrong [04:00]
5. Don`t Call Me A Joke [03:24]
6. Hope For The Ordinary [04:38]
7. Deadly Bite [03:57]
8. Something Broke [04:17]
9. Lonely Crowd [03:58]
10. Someone Waits [05:35]
Setting the pace, lead single/album opener "As I Leave" delivers a distilled form of the O.R.k. spirit directly to the listener. Lef’s powerful vocals, Carmelo Pipitone’s energetic riffing, Pat Mastelotto’s inventive rhythmic accompaniment and Colin Edwin’s distinctive bass tones all infuse Screamnasium with a refreshed intensity and a new luminosity. Energy levels are maintained throughout the 42-minute runtime as O.R.k. state the case for optimism, tolerance and empathy - these are hopeful anthems for an increasingly uncertain world.
One particular highlight is “Consequence”, where Lef spars with Grammy winning vocal phenom Elisa, best known outside her native Italy for her collaboration with the legendary Ennio Morricone on Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained soundtrack.
Album closer “Someone Waits” features virtuoso cellist Jo Quail who provides seductive, intertwining melodies to bring Screamnasium to a dramatic and unexpected finale.
Colin Edwin comments “Right now, Screamnasium feels to me like the album we’ve been trying to make since we first conceived the band, both sonically and also in terms of the songwriting and subject matter. All four of us are playing to our natural strengths and we’ve managed to express both light and shade and all sorts of colours in between. It reflects our recent pasts and directs some energy towards a more hopeful future. For me, the album is kind of a depurative, I really hope that overall feeling comes across.”
The creative duo of Grammy winning art director Adam Jones (of Tool) and Marvel/DC Comics illustrator Denis Rodier have handled the artwork and layout to create an iconic album artwork with remarkable visual imagery, while mixing and mastering duties have been undertaken by Machine (Lamb of God, King Crimson, Clutch).
Encompassing a wide breadth of emotional landscapes, Screamnasium is the consummate relief for our troubled times.
Kscope will release Screamnasium on 21st October on CD / ltd ed green coloured vinyl LP/ black vinyl LP and digitally
O.R.k. - live 2023
12.04. Aschaffenburg (DE) Colos Saal
13.04. Pratteln (CH) Z7
14.04. Stuttgart (DE) Club Zentral
16.04. Eindhoven (NL) -Effeenar Prognosis Festival
18.04. Milan (IT) Legend 54
19.04. Rome (IT) Traffic
20.04. Bologna (IT) Alchemica
21.04. Kufstein (AT) Kulturfabrik Kufstein
23.04. London (GB) Indigo at the O2 – Prognosis Festival
25.04. Paris (FR) Backstage by the Mill
27.04. Nantes (FR) Ferrailleur
05.05 Ubach-Palenberg - Rockfabrik
06.05. Zoetermeer (NL) De Boerderij
Tickets: https://www.bandsintown.com/a/12115353
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