Wellington based Avant Trance rockers Orchestra of Spheres are on a roll at the moment and left Wellington last week for a month long tour of Europe to promote their new record Brothers and Sisters of the Black Lagoon. The album has been released worldwide on both CD and vinyl by London based Fire Records, who seem to be doing a great job of promotion, getting the band featured as the Guardian Weekly’s Band of the Week….
….and getting the track Walking Through Walls featured on The Wire’s Adventures In Music and Sound, broadcast and podcast by Londons Resonance FM. For those interested the track can be heard about 16m in.
It will be interesting to hear back just how the band’s biscuit tin guitar, sexomouse marimba and electric bass carillon, all homemade instruments created from found objects, are received in countries like Turkey, Portugal and Spain and we will endeavour to feature an interview in a few weeks’ time.
Meanwhile, for anyone with friends in Europe, here are the tour dates…………..
13 May: Le Temps Machine, Tours, France
14 May: Festival Le Lac, Brest, France
16 May: Alte Seilerei, Bamberg, Germany
17 May: Az Conni, Dresden, Germany
18 May: Frau Korte, Erfurt, Germany
19 May: Rössli, Bern, Switzerland
20 May: May In The Park, Geneva, Switzerland
21 May: Les Instants Chavirés, Paris, France
22 May: Jazzkeller, Krefeld, Germany
25 May: Green Door Store, Brighton, UK
26 May: Club Makossa, London, UK
27 May: The Winchester, Bournemouth, UK
28 May: Raw Power Festival, The Dome, London, UK
29 May: Chill Out Festival, Istanbul, Turkey
31 May: Kafe Antzokia, Bilbao, Spain
01 Jun: Siroco, Madrid, Spain
02 Jun: Damas, Lisbon, Portugal
03 Jun: Teatro Municipal Rivoli, Porto, Portugal
04 Jun: Lata De Zinc, Oviedo, Spain
05 Jun: Centro Cívico Delicias, Zaragoza, Spain
07 Jun: Les Pavillons Sauvages, Toulouse, France
08 Jun: Le Café du Boulevard, Melle, France
10 Jun: Eindhoven Psych Lab, Eindhoven, Netherlands
11 Jun: OFF Bar, Basel, Switzerland
12 Jun: Baz’art, Geneva, Switzerland
Catch-up with the band & their tour on Facebook here. Buy some of their music on Bandcamp here.
All images used with permission.