 Orla Wren is Tui.
Tui knows Orla Wren best of all ...
North East bred, Tui broke away early from the unnecessary trappings
of the modern world ( little things, like bank accounts and living in
buildings ), becoming that most unlikely of individuals; a be-dreadlocked,
lap-top wielding, soundscape creating Neo-Gypsy.
His itinerant lifestyle found him busking throughout Europe, sleeping
in forests and travelling the length of his adopted Scotland selling
his multi media art work on the streets. En route he found time to release
the critically acclaimed first Orla Wren album “Butterfly Wings Make”
( Expanding Records, 2006 ).
He currently lives with Rima, in a self converted 1976 wooden Bedford
TK Horsebox
that will be parked in woods here and there throughout the UK, whilst
hand making various peculiar stringed things in readiness for continued
Orla Wren busking in the towns of Europe.
Tui has a happy obsession with rendering the minutiae of nature into
sonic form, combining the oldest, wonkiest most organic of possible
sound sources,
instrumental or otherwise, fashioned into textures of pinprick detail.
Orla Wren is a dream child. It’s surfaces may be brilliantly modern,
but it’s soul is ancient and gently unfolds itself in a contemplative
manner,
revealing the antiquated isolation of the environments that have inspired
it.
'The seven years since I set out, her tiny hand in mine' ...
::discography::
albums:
Butterfly Wings Make (expanding,2006)
The One Two Bird and The
Half Horse (flau,2009)
compilation & remixes:
V.A. - Session 1 (tribute to john peel,2005)
V.A. - Session 2 (tribute to john peel,2005)
V.A. - Sampler One (expanding,2006)
V.A. - 88 tapes (kesh::::,2008)
V.A. - Musique Pour Statues Menhirs (arbouse,2009)
official website
www.orlawren.com |
