The One Two Bird And The Half Horse

Orla Wren

title: The One Two Bird and The Half Horse
artist: Orla Wren
cat#: FLAU11
date: April.7th.2009

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Tugboats And Railroads
Two Note Winter
The First Born Daughter Of Water

The One Two Bird And The Half Horse' is the second album from Orla Wren. Recorded over the last two years in the environs of an isolated cold water cottage in the Scottish hills, it develops Tui’s 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. A wide array of stylistically disparate musical and vocal collaborators, from places as varied as Japan, the Georgian Republic and 'down-home' U.K., lend their weight to the process, alternately spooking and soothing the music, filtered through Tui’s “wires” into an intensely colorful democratic weave.

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.



"It distils sublime wood smoke folk atmosphere and pointallist digitalis to the subatomic level, until it becomes effectively the same stuff that makes brooks babble and winds whisper. It’s the music that Fennez and Lau Nau might make after a night laying beneath the glittering constellations."
Dave Sheppard

-tracklist-

01. First Wooden Words
02. Seven Papers Torn
03. Tugboats And Railroads
04. Two Note Winter
05. Book Of Frost
06. Words Of Finn
07. The Fish And The Doll
08. A Wren Coloured Fable
09. 33 Fainting Spells
10. Some Tales Wait Shy
11. The Unbowed Hand
12. The First Born Daughter Of Water

-reviews-

a modern tapestry of medieval values - barcode mag

Indescribably desirable. - loosing today

An excellent marriage between digital music and traditional folk music - vital weekly

the solo work of a pixie-like woman of Gaelic descent. - fluid radio

the songs just sort of flow freely, with various acoustic instruments, clicky fuzzy laptop sounds, and female vocals in the mix. Quite lovely. - foxy digitalis

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