New album out now
on Liquid Sound
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. Needs to be heard to be believed
Review - toxicpete.co.uk
"Taken from Orchid Star's forthcoming debut album 'Birth', 'Passion' sees the coming together of bang-up-to-date electronic music and ethnic rhythms and world vibes - to great effect. Within its genre 'Passion', in all its eight mixes as given here, is quite heavenly and, it has to be said, like a breath of fresh air in an all too often stale music idiom; it cleverly and very successfully combines rhythms and instrumental sounds and nuances from all over the globe, many in the form of what now seems to be referred to as 'live' instruments, the rest made up from sounds from the digital age. It works extremely well!!
'Passion' by Orchid Star is seriously good - probably one of the most unusual and classy sorties into the deepest realms and darkest corners of the modern electronically biased dance idiom that I've ever heard. If 'Passion' is typical, Orchid Star's debut album, 'Birth', thoroughly deserves to achieve success. Excellent!!"
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