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ALTERED DAYS
cocd 08.14
74 minute cd-r
original pieces composed performed produced by christopher orczy
christchurch new zealand august 2004 - july 2005
released 10 november 2005
Midway through the Harmonium Diaries series, I became interested in the idea of a reconstruction album. Through promoting the series on a few music forums, I became fortunate enough to meet the above artists, and even more fortunate for them to agree to take part in the project. Each artist was given one album, and there were no restrictions on what they could do. Receiving these reconstructions over the ensuing months was a fascinating exercise for me; it was like listeing to my music through someone else's ears.
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TRACKLISTING
01 lady mouse august reconstruction by trillion
02 a rain of grains september reconstruction by
michael peters
03 a little flower in october
october reconstruction by zimiamvian night
04 ceremony november reconstruction by igneous flame
05 red storm after midnight
december reconstruction by michael chocholak
06 sunday at the north sea
january reconstruction by cryptic scenery
07 endless green mmx february reconstruction by milieu
08 the eldenwhale march
march reconstruction by
plantre
09 how to remember
april reconstruction by stein grebstad
10 what is the point of all this
may reconstruction by mosca
11 insomnia
june reconstruction by jbible
12 we slip
july reconstruction by blues blues blues carnage
13 11 years
august reconstruction by djmbs
REVIEW
"Following on from his mammoth Harmonium Diaries series Christopher Orczy self-releases two more albums. The first is Some Days a selection of cuts from each of the months of the Diaries albums, which I'm not going to get into. The second is the rather more interesting Altered Days that sees Orczy's work given the remix/ reconstruction treatment. This probably didn't come about in the 'glamorous artists getting heavily drunk throwing challenging ideas across the table at each other and then having to back up said boasts the next day' fashion, but rather from behind computer screens. Whatever, the end result has breathed new life into the Cantabrian's sketches; it's mostly spatial and gentle electronic flourishes leading them to a more varied and (let's face it) commercial plateau. 'What is the point of all this', the May reconstruction by Mosca could almost be a single had it not been nearly eight minutes and Milieu's February reconstruction ('Endless Green MMX') has great use of looped nature sounds beneath the harmonium and processed beats. Altered Days is a welcome epilogue "
Adrian Osman, Real Groove, Issue 146, March 2006