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I try not to aim into the sun often but the bright cloud reflections in the Snake River at Oxbox Bend were bold and impressive. Might want to wear sunglasses when looking at this.
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Well, the best laid plans.....We had a long drive on this day and I didn't think we'd have time to stop for photos.....until I saw this. Here is dawn as it reaches the Grand Teton range, with Oxbow Bend in the Snake River as foreground. A magical place at a magical time.
The Pfatterer Au is a 359-hectare nature reserve belonging to the municipality of Pfatter, located north of Pfatter and south of the Danube in the district of Regensburg, Bavaria. The nature reserve includes river valley meadows, old Danube waters with siltation areas and floodplain vegetation. It is also a resting, breeding and wintering area for rare bird species such as the Eurasian curlew, which has its only breeding site here in the district of Regensburg. However, the expansion of the Danube reduced the flow dynamics of the river, which had a negative impact on the floodplain areas. To the north of the Danube is the Stöcklwörth nature reserve, to the east is the Gmünder Au nature reserve.
The picture was taken at the edge of an oxbow lake.
Die Pfatterer Au ist ein 359 Hektar großes zur Gemeinde Pfatter gehörendes Naturschutzgebiet nördlich von Pfatter und südlich der Donau gelegen im Landkreis Regensburg, Bayern. Das Naturschutzgebiet umfasst Stromtalwiesen, Donau-Altwässer mit Verlandungsbereichen und Auenvegetation. Weiter ist es Rast-, Brut- und Überwinterungsgebiet seltener Vogelarten wie dem Großen Brachvogel, der hier sein einziges Brutvorkommen im Landkreis Regensburg hat. Der Ausbau der Donau reduzierte allerdings die Fließdynamik des Flusses, was sich negativ auf die Auenbereiche auswirkte. Nördlich der Donau schließt sich das Naturschutzgebiet Stöcklwörth an, im Osten liegt das Naturschutzgebiet Gmünder Au.
Das Bild entstand am Rand eines Altarms.
Here is a look-back photo from our Wyoming trip in 2017. This is Oxbow Bend not long after an early-season snowstorm that had closed Yellowstone to the north.
This image was taken at 7:07 local time which was about 5 minutes before official sunrise. Note that this image was taken about 45 minutes before the one below in my Flickr stream. What a difference huh!
First light hitting Mount Moran and neighboring peaks at sunrise from Oxbox Bend. Grand Teton National Park, USA, July 2014
This is from my archives. I reprocessed it a bit to bring out the clouds a bit more. If you ever have the opportunity to visit the Tetons, jump at it. Photo ops galore!
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The Oxbow Loop Trail, located along the Middle Fork Snoqualmie River near the mouth of Snoqualmie Pass.
Mt Moran reflected in the Snake River at Oxbow Bend on a wonderful spring morning. It would have been nice to have a few clouds to add interest, but when I am there, it is usually crystal clear or totally socked in.
Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, USA
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Here's a shot from the Oxbow Loop Trail in Washington. The Wish Me Luck has nothing to do with that beautiful little trail - we are currently smack in the middle of the projected path of Hurricane Ian, which could bring a very powerful eye over my home, so I am watching with quite a bit of trepidation.
I may be posting infrequently for a bit, though I will hopefully squeeze at least one more in before arrival.
This mirror reflection of Mt. Moran in the Tetons is looking out over Oxbow Bend in the Teton National Park. This shot is the one I am most proud of...I was so lucky to be there on such a still morning!
THE ALBUMS
June 23rd 2008 sees the re-release of a salvo of Orb albums through Universal Catalogue. All four albums, Pomme Fritz, Orbus Terrarum, Orblivion & Cydonia were all originally released on Island Records.
All four albums come as 2-CD packages and include fully re-mastered versions of the original albums, deluxe, expanded packaging with sleeve notes from Kris Needs plus rare and previously unreleased mixes from the period of the original album releases.
Released in July 1994, Pomme Fritz was the bands first album for Island Records having released their first two albums for Big Life. By now something of a ‘household name’ thanks to the success of 2nd album U.F.Orb, Pomme Fritz, sub-titled The Orb’s Little Album, came as something of a shock to fans and critics alike. At 41 minutes it was, in Orb terms, something of a sprint and following the almost ‘pop’ sensibility of tracks such as Perpetual Dawn & Little Fluffy Clouds the disjointed, dissonance of Pomme Fritz was at odds to what had gone before, yet with hindsight Orb leader Alex Paterson see the album in terms of wiping the slate clean in order to begin again.
1995 saw the release of Orbus Terrarum, an album many Orb officianados see as something of a lost classic. The last album to feature Kris ‘Thrash’ Weston (who would be replaced with Andy Hughes), it still baffled many UK critics who were, at the time, in thrall to the prevailing flavour du jour of Britpop, yet it proved to be the bands biggest success in the U.S. More organic and straight-forward than its predecessor only one single, Oxbox Lakes was lifted from the album.
2 years later in 1996 and the Orb would return with Orbilivion, an album that would see them return to the commercial success they had achieved with their first two albums and spawn what was to be their biggest single to date. Now primarily Paterson & Hughes, the Orb scored their 1st top 5 single with Toxygene the first single to be lifted from the album. Starting life as a rejected remix of the Jean Michel Jarre track Oxygene (turned down as it bore no resemblance to the original) the single reached number 4 in January of 1996. The album saw the band re-capture some critical ground as reviews celebrated the long-player as something of a ‘return to form’.
Despite the various corporate reshuffles at the Orb’s label, Cydonia, the final album for Island, finally emerged in 2001. Recorded in 1999, the album played to the Orb’s strengths. Moments of bass heavy ambience, recalling the heady days of the early 90’s sat alongside ‘pop’ moments such as the first single from the album, Once More. Soon after its release the band parted company with the label, following a final ‘greatest hits’ complilation U.F.Off and a legendary show at the Royal Albert Hall.
THE HISTORY
Essentially the brainchild of Alex Paterson, the Orb sprang forth from the punk rock ethos of ‘anything-goes’. Initially working with Killing Joke’s Youth and KLF-er Jimmy Cauty and inspired by New York mix-tapes from the likes of Shep Pettibone, the Orb’s initial game plan was to operate outside any restrictive notion of genre by utilising anything from dub to punk to abstract electronic bleeps and blips. The mentality, which spawned the Orb, stemmed from having a laugh but being deadly serious about amazing music of whatever strain or period.
With the advent of acid-house in 1988 their ambient workings and DJ sets, which straddled the gaps between the ambience of Eno & White Noise, early house tracks and the wide-screen space of classic dub, saw them much in demand in the capitals nascent club-scene. Providing back-room entertainment at legendary bashes such as Trancentral and Land of Oz the early incarnation of the Orb soon gained a reputation for something different in a world where the 4/4 beat ruled supreme.
It wasn’t long before their formative ideas made it to vinyl and early releases such as A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Ultraworld and Little Fluffy Clouds became acclaimed as defining a genre that would be loosely referred to as ‘ambient-house’.
Their debut album, The Orb’s Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld, released in 1991 established them as one of the UK’s most innovative and expansive electronic bands; a deeply textured album of other-worldly sounds and subtle beats it was widely hailed as unique and highly original record.
The following year, 1992, saw the release of arguably their ‘piece de la resistance’ U.F.Orb which saw them really capture the spirit of the time: rumbling bass heavy moments in dub, dis-jointed snippets of sound, abstract beats and dialogue segments from long-forgotten counter-culture films. It reached number one upon release, the first album by a British electronic / dance act to do so and went on to become one of the definitive electronic releases of the period.
20-years after acid-house first exploded it’s easy to forget how pioneering artists such as the Orb really were. They took the DIY ethos of punk and fused it with a sense of musical exploration afforded by the explosion of electronic music and created a sound that was unique and something that would spawn a slew of imitators.
Alex would continue to record as the Orb putting out albums that continued to explore beyond the norm and became a much in-demand collaborator / remixer working with the likes of Primal Scream who all appreciated the pranksters one-off, devil-may-care musical abilities.
The full tracklisting of the albums are as follows:
Pomme Fritz
Disc 1 (original album)
Pomme Fritz (Meat ‘n’ Veg)
More Gills Less Fish Cakes
We’re Pastie To Be Grill You
Bang ‘Er ‘N’ Chips
Alles Ist Schoen
His Immortal Logness
Disc 2 (Remixes)
Sausage Tats Mit Gravy (Dom Mix no.1)
Star Twister (Pomme Fritz & Apple Sauce Mix)
Potato Fields Of Electric Gliding Blue (Ambient Mix)
Eastern Hot Dogs In Gardens Of Dub (Lx Mix)
Wrapped With Salt & Vinegar (Thomas Fehlmann Mix)
Orbus Terrarum
Disc 1 (original album)
Valley
Plateau
Oxbox Lakes
Montagne D’or (Der Gute Berg)
White River Junction
Occidental
Slug Dub
Disc 2 (Remixes)
Plateau (All Hands On Deck Mix – 2am)
Slug Dub (Dumpy Dub)
Valley (Mix 3 Dubby)
White River Junction (Zoom Vinegar Mix)
Oxbox Lakes (Andy’s Space Mix)
Peace Pudding (Occidental)
Orblivion
Disc 1 (original album)
Delta Mk II
Ubiquity
Asylum
Bedouin
Molten Love
Pi - Part One
S.A.L.T
Toxygene
Log Of Deadwood
Secrets
Passing Of Time
72
Disc 2 (remixes)
Delta Mk II (Love Bites Mix)
Bedouin (The Sheiks Film Mix)
Log Of Deadwood (Implanting Machines Mix)
Secrets (I Love A Woman In Uniform Mix)
Passing Of Time (Ambient Mix)
Molten Love (Orbits Of Venus Mix)
S.A.L.T. (Snow Mix)
Toxygene (Kris Needs Up For A Fortnight Mix)
Asylum (Soul Catcher Mix)
Cydonia
Disc 1 (original album)
Once More
Promis
Ghostdancing
Turn It Down
Egnable
Firestar
A Mile Long Lump Of Lard
Centuries
Plum Island
Hamlet Of Kings
1,1,1
Edm – The Blackhole Mix
Thursday’s Keeper
Terminus
Disc 2 (remixes)
Centuries (Europhen Mix)
Ghostdancing (version)
Hamlet Of Kings (version)
Firestar (Front Bits)
Centuries (Wine, Woman & King Mix)
Once More (Scourge Of The Earth Mix)
Plum Island (Flat Mix)
Promis (Version)
Once More (Bedrock Edit 2)
Turn It Down (Long Version)
Terminus (Andy’s Mix)
For further information contact:
Steve Phillips
Coalition PR 0208 987 0123
Steve@coalitiongroup.co.uk
THE ALBUMS
June 23rd 2008 sees the re-release of a salvo of Orb albums through Universal Catalogue. All four albums, Pomme Fritz, Orbus Terrarum, Orblivion & Cydonia were all originally released on Island Records.
All four albums come as 2-CD packages and include fully re-mastered versions of the original albums, deluxe, expanded packaging with sleeve notes from Kris Needs plus rare and previously unreleased mixes from the period of the original album releases.
Released in July 1994, Pomme Fritz was the bands first album for Island Records having released their first two albums for Big Life. By now something of a ‘household name’ thanks to the success of 2nd album U.F.Orb, Pomme Fritz, sub-titled The Orb’s Little Album, came as something of a shock to fans and critics alike. At 41 minutes it was, in Orb terms, something of a sprint and following the almost ‘pop’ sensibility of tracks such as Perpetual Dawn & Little Fluffy Clouds the disjointed, dissonance of Pomme Fritz was at odds to what had gone before, yet with hindsight Orb leader Alex Paterson see the album in terms of wiping the slate clean in order to begin again.
1995 saw the release of Orbus Terrarum, an album many Orb officianados see as something of a lost classic. The last album to feature Kris ‘Thrash’ Weston (who would be replaced with Andy Hughes), it still baffled many UK critics who were, at the time, in thrall to the prevailing flavour du jour of Britpop, yet it proved to be the bands biggest success in the U.S. More organic and straight-forward than its predecessor only one single, Oxbox Lakes was lifted from the album.
2 years later in 1996 and the Orb would return with Orbilivion, an album that would see them return to the commercial success they had achieved with their first two albums and spawn what was to be their biggest single to date. Now primarily Paterson & Hughes, the Orb scored their 1st top 5 single with Toxygene the first single to be lifted from the album. Starting life as a rejected remix of the Jean Michel Jarre track Oxygene (turned down as it bore no resemblance to the original) the single reached number 4 in January of 1996. The album saw the band re-capture some critical ground as reviews celebrated the long-player as something of a ‘return to form’.
Despite the various corporate reshuffles at the Orb’s label, Cydonia, the final album for Island, finally emerged in 2001. Recorded in 1999, the album played to the Orb’s strengths. Moments of bass heavy ambience, recalling the heady days of the early 90’s sat alongside ‘pop’ moments such as the first single from the album, Once More. Soon after its release the band parted company with the label, following a final ‘greatest hits’ complilation U.F.Off and a legendary show at the Royal Albert Hall.
THE HISTORY
Essentially the brainchild of Alex Paterson, the Orb sprang forth from the punk rock ethos of ‘anything-goes’. Initially working with Killing Joke’s Youth and KLF-er Jimmy Cauty and inspired by New York mix-tapes from the likes of Shep Pettibone, the Orb’s initial game plan was to operate outside any restrictive notion of genre by utilising anything from dub to punk to abstract electronic bleeps and blips. The mentality, which spawned the Orb, stemmed from having a laugh but being deadly serious about amazing music of whatever strain or period.
With the advent of acid-house in 1988 their ambient workings and DJ sets, which straddled the gaps between the ambience of Eno & White Noise, early house tracks and the wide-screen space of classic dub, saw them much in demand in the capitals nascent club-scene. Providing back-room entertainment at legendary bashes such as Trancentral and Land of Oz the early incarnation of the Orb soon gained a reputation for something different in a world where the 4/4 beat ruled supreme.
It wasn’t long before their formative ideas made it to vinyl and early releases such as A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Ultraworld and Little Fluffy Clouds became acclaimed as defining a genre that would be loosely referred to as ‘ambient-house’.
Their debut album, The Orb’s Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld, released in 1991 established them as one of the UK’s most innovative and expansive electronic bands; a deeply textured album of other-worldly sounds and subtle beats it was widely hailed as unique and highly original record.
The following year, 1992, saw the release of arguably their ‘piece de la resistance’ U.F.Orb which saw them really capture the spirit of the time: rumbling bass heavy moments in dub, dis-jointed snippets of sound, abstract beats and dialogue segments from long-forgotten counter-culture films. It reached number one upon release, the first album by a British electronic / dance act to do so and went on to become one of the definitive electronic releases of the period.
20-years after acid-house first exploded it’s easy to forget how pioneering artists such as the Orb really were. They took the DIY ethos of punk and fused it with a sense of musical exploration afforded by the explosion of electronic music and created a sound that was unique and something that would spawn a slew of imitators.
Alex would continue to record as the Orb putting out albums that continued to explore beyond the norm and became a much in-demand collaborator / remixer working with the likes of Primal Scream who all appreciated the pranksters one-off, devil-may-care musical abilities.
The full tracklisting of the albums are as follows:
Pomme Fritz
Disc 1 (original album)
Pomme Fritz (Meat ‘n’ Veg)
More Gills Less Fish Cakes
We’re Pastie To Be Grill You
Bang ‘Er ‘N’ Chips
Alles Ist Schoen
His Immortal Logness
Disc 2 (Remixes)
Sausage Tats Mit Gravy (Dom Mix no.1)
Star Twister (Pomme Fritz & Apple Sauce Mix)
Potato Fields Of Electric Gliding Blue (Ambient Mix)
Eastern Hot Dogs In Gardens Of Dub (Lx Mix)
Wrapped With Salt & Vinegar (Thomas Fehlmann Mix)
Orbus Terrarum
Disc 1 (original album)
Valley
Plateau
Oxbox Lakes
Montagne D’or (Der Gute Berg)
White River Junction
Occidental
Slug Dub
Disc 2 (Remixes)
Plateau (All Hands On Deck Mix – 2am)
Slug Dub (Dumpy Dub)
Valley (Mix 3 Dubby)
White River Junction (Zoom Vinegar Mix)
Oxbox Lakes (Andy’s Space Mix)
Peace Pudding (Occidental)
Orblivion
Disc 1 (original album)
Delta Mk II
Ubiquity
Asylum
Bedouin
Molten Love
Pi - Part One
S.A.L.T
Toxygene
Log Of Deadwood
Secrets
Passing Of Time
72
Disc 2 (remixes)
Delta Mk II (Love Bites Mix)
Bedouin (The Sheiks Film Mix)
Log Of Deadwood (Implanting Machines Mix)
Secrets (I Love A Woman In Uniform Mix)
Passing Of Time (Ambient Mix)
Molten Love (Orbits Of Venus Mix)
S.A.L.T. (Snow Mix)
Toxygene (Kris Needs Up For A Fortnight Mix)
Asylum (Soul Catcher Mix)
Cydonia
Disc 1 (original album)
Once More
Promis
Ghostdancing
Turn It Down
Egnable
Firestar
A Mile Long Lump Of Lard
Centuries
Plum Island
Hamlet Of Kings
1,1,1
Edm – The Blackhole Mix
Thursday’s Keeper
Terminus
Disc 2 (remixes)
Centuries (Europhen Mix)
Ghostdancing (version)
Hamlet Of Kings (version)
Firestar (Front Bits)
Centuries (Wine, Woman & King Mix)
Once More (Scourge Of The Earth Mix)
Plum Island (Flat Mix)
Promis (Version)
Once More (Bedrock Edit 2)
Turn It Down (Long Version)
Terminus (Andy’s Mix)
For further information contact:
Steve Phillips
Coalition PR 0208 987 0123
Steve@coalitiongroup.co.uk
THE ALBUMS
June 23rd 2008 sees the re-release of a salvo of Orb albums through Universal Catalogue. All four albums, Pomme Fritz, Orbus Terrarum, Orblivion & Cydonia were all originally released on Island Records.
All four albums come as 2-CD packages and include fully re-mastered versions of the original albums, deluxe, expanded packaging with sleeve notes from Kris Needs plus rare and previously unreleased mixes from the period of the original album releases.
Released in July 1994, Pomme Fritz was the bands first album for Island Records having released their first two albums for Big Life. By now something of a ‘household name’ thanks to the success of 2nd album U.F.Orb, Pomme Fritz, sub-titled The Orb’s Little Album, came as something of a shock to fans and critics alike. At 41 minutes it was, in Orb terms, something of a sprint and following the almost ‘pop’ sensibility of tracks such as Perpetual Dawn & Little Fluffy Clouds the disjointed, dissonance of Pomme Fritz was at odds to what had gone before, yet with hindsight Orb leader Alex Paterson see the album in terms of wiping the slate clean in order to begin again.
1995 saw the release of Orbus Terrarum, an album many Orb officianados see as something of a lost classic. The last album to feature Kris ‘Thrash’ Weston (who would be replaced with Andy Hughes), it still baffled many UK critics who were, at the time, in thrall to the prevailing flavour du jour of Britpop, yet it proved to be the bands biggest success in the U.S. More organic and straight-forward than its predecessor only one single, Oxbox Lakes was lifted from the album.
2 years later in 1996 and the Orb would return with Orbilivion, an album that would see them return to the commercial success they had achieved with their first two albums and spawn what was to be their biggest single to date. Now primarily Paterson & Hughes, the Orb scored their 1st top 5 single with Toxygene the first single to be lifted from the album. Starting life as a rejected remix of the Jean Michel Jarre track Oxygene (turned down as it bore no resemblance to the original) the single reached number 4 in January of 1996. The album saw the band re-capture some critical ground as reviews celebrated the long-player as something of a ‘return to form’.
Despite the various corporate reshuffles at the Orb’s label, Cydonia, the final album for Island, finally emerged in 2001. Recorded in 1999, the album played to the Orb’s strengths. Moments of bass heavy ambience, recalling the heady days of the early 90’s sat alongside ‘pop’ moments such as the first single from the album, Once More. Soon after its release the band parted company with the label, following a final ‘greatest hits’ complilation U.F.Off and a legendary show at the Royal Albert Hall.
THE HISTORY
Essentially the brainchild of Alex Paterson, the Orb sprang forth from the punk rock ethos of ‘anything-goes’. Initially working with Killing Joke’s Youth and KLF-er Jimmy Cauty and inspired by New York mix-tapes from the likes of Shep Pettibone, the Orb’s initial game plan was to operate outside any restrictive notion of genre by utilising anything from dub to punk to abstract electronic bleeps and blips. The mentality, which spawned the Orb, stemmed from having a laugh but being deadly serious about amazing music of whatever strain or period.
With the advent of acid-house in 1988 their ambient workings and DJ sets, which straddled the gaps between the ambience of Eno & White Noise, early house tracks and the wide-screen space of classic dub, saw them much in demand in the capitals nascent club-scene. Providing back-room entertainment at legendary bashes such as Trancentral and Land of Oz the early incarnation of the Orb soon gained a reputation for something different in a world where the 4/4 beat ruled supreme.
It wasn’t long before their formative ideas made it to vinyl and early releases such as A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Ultraworld and Little Fluffy Clouds became acclaimed as defining a genre that would be loosely referred to as ‘ambient-house’.
Their debut album, The Orb’s Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld, released in 1991 established them as one of the UK’s most innovative and expansive electronic bands; a deeply textured album of other-worldly sounds and subtle beats it was widely hailed as unique and highly original record.
The following year, 1992, saw the release of arguably their ‘piece de la resistance’ U.F.Orb which saw them really capture the spirit of the time: rumbling bass heavy moments in dub, dis-jointed snippets of sound, abstract beats and dialogue segments from long-forgotten counter-culture films. It reached number one upon release, the first album by a British electronic / dance act to do so and went on to become one of the definitive electronic releases of the period.
20-years after acid-house first exploded it’s easy to forget how pioneering artists such as the Orb really were. They took the DIY ethos of punk and fused it with a sense of musical exploration afforded by the explosion of electronic music and created a sound that was unique and something that would spawn a slew of imitators.
Alex would continue to record as the Orb putting out albums that continued to explore beyond the norm and became a much in-demand collaborator / remixer working with the likes of Primal Scream who all appreciated the pranksters one-off, devil-may-care musical abilities.
The full tracklisting of the albums are as follows:
Pomme Fritz
Disc 1 (original album)
Pomme Fritz (Meat ‘n’ Veg)
More Gills Less Fish Cakes
We’re Pastie To Be Grill You
Bang ‘Er ‘N’ Chips
Alles Ist Schoen
His Immortal Logness
Disc 2 (Remixes)
Sausage Tats Mit Gravy (Dom Mix no.1)
Star Twister (Pomme Fritz & Apple Sauce Mix)
Potato Fields Of Electric Gliding Blue (Ambient Mix)
Eastern Hot Dogs In Gardens Of Dub (Lx Mix)
Wrapped With Salt & Vinegar (Thomas Fehlmann Mix)
Orbus Terrarum
Disc 1 (original album)
Valley
Plateau
Oxbox Lakes
Montagne D’or (Der Gute Berg)
White River Junction
Occidental
Slug Dub
Disc 2 (Remixes)
Plateau (All Hands On Deck Mix – 2am)
Slug Dub (Dumpy Dub)
Valley (Mix 3 Dubby)
White River Junction (Zoom Vinegar Mix)
Oxbox Lakes (Andy’s Space Mix)
Peace Pudding (Occidental)
Orblivion
Disc 1 (original album)
Delta Mk II
Ubiquity
Asylum
Bedouin
Molten Love
Pi - Part One
S.A.L.T
Toxygene
Log Of Deadwood
Secrets
Passing Of Time
72
Disc 2 (remixes)
Delta Mk II (Love Bites Mix)
Bedouin (The Sheiks Film Mix)
Log Of Deadwood (Implanting Machines Mix)
Secrets (I Love A Woman In Uniform Mix)
Passing Of Time (Ambient Mix)
Molten Love (Orbits Of Venus Mix)
S.A.L.T. (Snow Mix)
Toxygene (Kris Needs Up For A Fortnight Mix)
Asylum (Soul Catcher Mix)
Cydonia
Disc 1 (original album)
Once More
Promis
Ghostdancing
Turn It Down
Egnable
Firestar
A Mile Long Lump Of Lard
Centuries
Plum Island
Hamlet Of Kings
1,1,1
Edm – The Blackhole Mix
Thursday’s Keeper
Terminus
Disc 2 (remixes)
Centuries (Europhen Mix)
Ghostdancing (version)
Hamlet Of Kings (version)
Firestar (Front Bits)
Centuries (Wine, Woman & King Mix)
Once More (Scourge Of The Earth Mix)
Plum Island (Flat Mix)
Promis (Version)
Once More (Bedrock Edit 2)
Turn It Down (Long Version)
Terminus (Andy’s Mix)
For further information contact:
Steve Phillips
Coalition PR 0208 987 0123
Steve@coalitiongroup.co.uk
THE ALBUMS
June 23rd 2008 sees the re-release of a salvo of Orb albums through Universal Catalogue. All four albums, Pomme Fritz, Orbus Terrarum, Orblivion & Cydonia were all originally released on Island Records.
All four albums come as 2-CD packages and include fully re-mastered versions of the original albums, deluxe, expanded packaging with sleeve notes from Kris Needs plus rare and previously unreleased mixes from the period of the original album releases.
Released in July 1994, Pomme Fritz was the bands first album for Island Records having released their first two albums for Big Life. By now something of a ‘household name’ thanks to the success of 2nd album U.F.Orb, Pomme Fritz, sub-titled The Orb’s Little Album, came as something of a shock to fans and critics alike. At 41 minutes it was, in Orb terms, something of a sprint and following the almost ‘pop’ sensibility of tracks such as Perpetual Dawn & Little Fluffy Clouds the disjointed, dissonance of Pomme Fritz was at odds to what had gone before, yet with hindsight Orb leader Alex Paterson see the album in terms of wiping the slate clean in order to begin again.
1995 saw the release of Orbus Terrarum, an album many Orb officianados see as something of a lost classic. The last album to feature Kris ‘Thrash’ Weston (who would be replaced with Andy Hughes), it still baffled many UK critics who were, at the time, in thrall to the prevailing flavour du jour of Britpop, yet it proved to be the bands biggest success in the U.S. More organic and straight-forward than its predecessor only one single, Oxbox Lakes was lifted from the album.
2 years later in 1996 and the Orb would return with Orbilivion, an album that would see them return to the commercial success they had achieved with their first two albums and spawn what was to be their biggest single to date. Now primarily Paterson & Hughes, the Orb scored their 1st top 5 single with Toxygene the first single to be lifted from the album. Starting life as a rejected remix of the Jean Michel Jarre track Oxygene (turned down as it bore no resemblance to the original) the single reached number 4 in January of 1996. The album saw the band re-capture some critical ground as reviews celebrated the long-player as something of a ‘return to form’.
Despite the various corporate reshuffles at the Orb’s label, Cydonia, the final album for Island, finally emerged in 2001. Recorded in 1999, the album played to the Orb’s strengths. Moments of bass heavy ambience, recalling the heady days of the early 90’s sat alongside ‘pop’ moments such as the first single from the album, Once More. Soon after its release the band parted company with the label, following a final ‘greatest hits’ complilation U.F.Off and a legendary show at the Royal Albert Hall.
THE HISTORY
Essentially the brainchild of Alex Paterson, the Orb sprang forth from the punk rock ethos of ‘anything-goes’. Initially working with Killing Joke’s Youth and KLF-er Jimmy Cauty and inspired by New York mix-tapes from the likes of Shep Pettibone, the Orb’s initial game plan was to operate outside any restrictive notion of genre by utilising anything from dub to punk to abstract electronic bleeps and blips. The mentality, which spawned the Orb, stemmed from having a laugh but being deadly serious about amazing music of whatever strain or period.
With the advent of acid-house in 1988 their ambient workings and DJ sets, which straddled the gaps between the ambience of Eno & White Noise, early house tracks and the wide-screen space of classic dub, saw them much in demand in the capitals nascent club-scene. Providing back-room entertainment at legendary bashes such as Trancentral and Land of Oz the early incarnation of the Orb soon gained a reputation for something different in a world where the 4/4 beat ruled supreme.
It wasn’t long before their formative ideas made it to vinyl and early releases such as A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Ultraworld and Little Fluffy Clouds became acclaimed as defining a genre that would be loosely referred to as ‘ambient-house’.
Their debut album, The Orb’s Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld, released in 1991 established them as one of the UK’s most innovative and expansive electronic bands; a deeply textured album of other-worldly sounds and subtle beats it was widely hailed as unique and highly original record.
The following year, 1992, saw the release of arguably their ‘piece de la resistance’ U.F.Orb which saw them really capture the spirit of the time: rumbling bass heavy moments in dub, dis-jointed snippets of sound, abstract beats and dialogue segments from long-forgotten counter-culture films. It reached number one upon release, the first album by a British electronic / dance act to do so and went on to become one of the definitive electronic releases of the period.
20-years after acid-house first exploded it’s easy to forget how pioneering artists such as the Orb really were. They took the DIY ethos of punk and fused it with a sense of musical exploration afforded by the explosion of electronic music and created a sound that was unique and something that would spawn a slew of imitators.
Alex would continue to record as the Orb putting out albums that continued to explore beyond the norm and became a much in-demand collaborator / remixer working with the likes of Primal Scream who all appreciated the pranksters one-off, devil-may-care musical abilities.
The full tracklisting of the albums are as follows:
Pomme Fritz
Disc 1 (original album)
Pomme Fritz (Meat ‘n’ Veg)
More Gills Less Fish Cakes
We’re Pastie To Be Grill You
Bang ‘Er ‘N’ Chips
Alles Ist Schoen
His Immortal Logness
Disc 2 (Remixes)
Sausage Tats Mit Gravy (Dom Mix no.1)
Star Twister (Pomme Fritz & Apple Sauce Mix)
Potato Fields Of Electric Gliding Blue (Ambient Mix)
Eastern Hot Dogs In Gardens Of Dub (Lx Mix)
Wrapped With Salt & Vinegar (Thomas Fehlmann Mix)
Orbus Terrarum
Disc 1 (original album)
Valley
Plateau
Oxbox Lakes
Montagne D’or (Der Gute Berg)
White River Junction
Occidental
Slug Dub
Disc 2 (Remixes)
Plateau (All Hands On Deck Mix – 2am)
Slug Dub (Dumpy Dub)
Valley (Mix 3 Dubby)
White River Junction (Zoom Vinegar Mix)
Oxbox Lakes (Andy’s Space Mix)
Peace Pudding (Occidental)
Orblivion
Disc 1 (original album)
Delta Mk II
Ubiquity
Asylum
Bedouin
Molten Love
Pi - Part One
S.A.L.T
Toxygene
Log Of Deadwood
Secrets
Passing Of Time
72
Disc 2 (remixes)
Delta Mk II (Love Bites Mix)
Bedouin (The Sheiks Film Mix)
Log Of Deadwood (Implanting Machines Mix)
Secrets (I Love A Woman In Uniform Mix)
Passing Of Time (Ambient Mix)
Molten Love (Orbits Of Venus Mix)
S.A.L.T. (Snow Mix)
Toxygene (Kris Needs Up For A Fortnight Mix)
Asylum (Soul Catcher Mix)
Cydonia
Disc 1 (original album)
Once More
Promis
Ghostdancing
Turn It Down
Egnable
Firestar
A Mile Long Lump Of Lard
Centuries
Plum Island
Hamlet Of Kings
1,1,1
Edm – The Blackhole Mix
Thursday’s Keeper
Terminus
Disc 2 (remixes)
Centuries (Europhen Mix)
Ghostdancing (version)
Hamlet Of Kings (version)
Firestar (Front Bits)
Centuries (Wine, Woman & King Mix)
Once More (Scourge Of The Earth Mix)
Plum Island (Flat Mix)
Promis (Version)
Once More (Bedrock Edit 2)
Turn It Down (Long Version)
Terminus (Andy’s Mix)
For further information contact:
Steve Phillips
Coalition PR 0208 987 0123
Steve@coalitiongroup.co.uk
(First of three) The incredible looking Hoatzin was one of my first "lifers" during my stay in the Amazon basin at Sacha Lodge. Several of the birds were usually around the oxbox lake where the lodge is located.
The birds above where part of a group of five perched low along the Napo River. The photo was taken from our boat.
July 3, 2014. Along the Napo River near Sacha Lodge in Ecuador.
THE ALBUMS
June 23rd 2008 sees the re-release of a salvo of Orb albums through Universal Catalogue. All four albums, Pomme Fritz, Orbus Terrarum, Orblivion & Cydonia were all originally released on Island Records.
All four albums come as 2-CD packages and include fully re-mastered versions of the original albums, deluxe, expanded packaging with sleeve notes from Kris Needs plus rare and previously unreleased mixes from the period of the original album releases.
Released in July 1994, Pomme Fritz was the bands first album for Island Records having released their first two albums for Big Life. By now something of a ‘household name’ thanks to the success of 2nd album U.F.Orb, Pomme Fritz, sub-titled The Orb’s Little Album, came as something of a shock to fans and critics alike. At 41 minutes it was, in Orb terms, something of a sprint and following the almost ‘pop’ sensibility of tracks such as Perpetual Dawn & Little Fluffy Clouds the disjointed, dissonance of Pomme Fritz was at odds to what had gone before, yet with hindsight Orb leader Alex Paterson see the album in terms of wiping the slate clean in order to begin again.
1995 saw the release of Orbus Terrarum, an album many Orb officianados see as something of a lost classic. The last album to feature Kris ‘Thrash’ Weston (who would be replaced with Andy Hughes), it still baffled many UK critics who were, at the time, in thrall to the prevailing flavour du jour of Britpop, yet it proved to be the bands biggest success in the U.S. More organic and straight-forward than its predecessor only one single, Oxbox Lakes was lifted from the album.
2 years later in 1996 and the Orb would return with Orbilivion, an album that would see them return to the commercial success they had achieved with their first two albums and spawn what was to be their biggest single to date. Now primarily Paterson & Hughes, the Orb scored their 1st top 5 single with Toxygene the first single to be lifted from the album. Starting life as a rejected remix of the Jean Michel Jarre track Oxygene (turned down as it bore no resemblance to the original) the single reached number 4 in January of 1996. The album saw the band re-capture some critical ground as reviews celebrated the long-player as something of a ‘return to form’.
Despite the various corporate reshuffles at the Orb’s label, Cydonia, the final album for Island, finally emerged in 2001. Recorded in 1999, the album played to the Orb’s strengths. Moments of bass heavy ambience, recalling the heady days of the early 90’s sat alongside ‘pop’ moments such as the first single from the album, Once More. Soon after its release the band parted company with the label, following a final ‘greatest hits’ complilation U.F.Off and a legendary show at the Royal Albert Hall.
THE HISTORY
Essentially the brainchild of Alex Paterson, the Orb sprang forth from the punk rock ethos of ‘anything-goes’. Initially working with Killing Joke’s Youth and KLF-er Jimmy Cauty and inspired by New York mix-tapes from the likes of Shep Pettibone, the Orb’s initial game plan was to operate outside any restrictive notion of genre by utilising anything from dub to punk to abstract electronic bleeps and blips. The mentality, which spawned the Orb, stemmed from having a laugh but being deadly serious about amazing music of whatever strain or period.
With the advent of acid-house in 1988 their ambient workings and DJ sets, which straddled the gaps between the ambience of Eno & White Noise, early house tracks and the wide-screen space of classic dub, saw them much in demand in the capitals nascent club-scene. Providing back-room entertainment at legendary bashes such as Trancentral and Land of Oz the early incarnation of the Orb soon gained a reputation for something different in a world where the 4/4 beat ruled supreme.
It wasn’t long before their formative ideas made it to vinyl and early releases such as A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Ultraworld and Little Fluffy Clouds became acclaimed as defining a genre that would be loosely referred to as ‘ambient-house’.
Their debut album, The Orb’s Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld, released in 1991 established them as one of the UK’s most innovative and expansive electronic bands; a deeply textured album of other-worldly sounds and subtle beats it was widely hailed as unique and highly original record.
The following year, 1992, saw the release of arguably their ‘piece de la resistance’ U.F.Orb which saw them really capture the spirit of the time: rumbling bass heavy moments in dub, dis-jointed snippets of sound, abstract beats and dialogue segments from long-forgotten counter-culture films. It reached number one upon release, the first album by a British electronic / dance act to do so and went on to become one of the definitive electronic releases of the period.
20-years after acid-house first exploded it’s easy to forget how pioneering artists such as the Orb really were. They took the DIY ethos of punk and fused it with a sense of musical exploration afforded by the explosion of electronic music and created a sound that was unique and something that would spawn a slew of imitators.
Alex would continue to record as the Orb putting out albums that continued to explore beyond the norm and became a much in-demand collaborator / remixer working with the likes of Primal Scream who all appreciated the pranksters one-off, devil-may-care musical abilities.
The full tracklisting of the albums are as follows:
Pomme Fritz
Disc 1 (original album)
Pomme Fritz (Meat ‘n’ Veg)
More Gills Less Fish Cakes
We’re Pastie To Be Grill You
Bang ‘Er ‘N’ Chips
Alles Ist Schoen
His Immortal Logness
Disc 2 (Remixes)
Sausage Tats Mit Gravy (Dom Mix no.1)
Star Twister (Pomme Fritz & Apple Sauce Mix)
Potato Fields Of Electric Gliding Blue (Ambient Mix)
Eastern Hot Dogs In Gardens Of Dub (Lx Mix)
Wrapped With Salt & Vinegar (Thomas Fehlmann Mix)
Orbus Terrarum
Disc 1 (original album)
Valley
Plateau
Oxbox Lakes
Montagne D’or (Der Gute Berg)
White River Junction
Occidental
Slug Dub
Disc 2 (Remixes)
Plateau (All Hands On Deck Mix – 2am)
Slug Dub (Dumpy Dub)
Valley (Mix 3 Dubby)
White River Junction (Zoom Vinegar Mix)
Oxbox Lakes (Andy’s Space Mix)
Peace Pudding (Occidental)
Orblivion
Disc 1 (original album)
Delta Mk II
Ubiquity
Asylum
Bedouin
Molten Love
Pi - Part One
S.A.L.T
Toxygene
Log Of Deadwood
Secrets
Passing Of Time
72
Disc 2 (remixes)
Delta Mk II (Love Bites Mix)
Bedouin (The Sheiks Film Mix)
Log Of Deadwood (Implanting Machines Mix)
Secrets (I Love A Woman In Uniform Mix)
Passing Of Time (Ambient Mix)
Molten Love (Orbits Of Venus Mix)
S.A.L.T. (Snow Mix)
Toxygene (Kris Needs Up For A Fortnight Mix)
Asylum (Soul Catcher Mix)
Cydonia
Disc 1 (original album)
Once More
Promis
Ghostdancing
Turn It Down
Egnable
Firestar
A Mile Long Lump Of Lard
Centuries
Plum Island
Hamlet Of Kings
1,1,1
Edm – The Blackhole Mix
Thursday’s Keeper
Terminus
Disc 2 (remixes)
Centuries (Europhen Mix)
Ghostdancing (version)
Hamlet Of Kings (version)
Firestar (Front Bits)
Centuries (Wine, Woman & King Mix)
Once More (Scourge Of The Earth Mix)
Plum Island (Flat Mix)
Promis (Version)
Once More (Bedrock Edit 2)
Turn It Down (Long Version)
Terminus (Andy’s Mix)
For further information contact:
Steve Phillips
Coalition PR 0208 987 0123
Steve@coalitiongroup.co.uk
THE ALBUMS
June 23rd 2008 sees the re-release of a salvo of Orb albums through Universal Catalogue. All four albums, Pomme Fritz, Orbus Terrarum, Orblivion & Cydonia were all originally released on Island Records.
All four albums come as 2-CD packages and include fully re-mastered versions of the original albums, deluxe, expanded packaging with sleeve notes from Kris Needs plus rare and previously unreleased mixes from the period of the original album releases.
Released in July 1994, Pomme Fritz was the bands first album for Island Records having released their first two albums for Big Life. By now something of a ‘household name’ thanks to the success of 2nd album U.F.Orb, Pomme Fritz, sub-titled The Orb’s Little Album, came as something of a shock to fans and critics alike. At 41 minutes it was, in Orb terms, something of a sprint and following the almost ‘pop’ sensibility of tracks such as Perpetual Dawn & Little Fluffy Clouds the disjointed, dissonance of Pomme Fritz was at odds to what had gone before, yet with hindsight Orb leader Alex Paterson see the album in terms of wiping the slate clean in order to begin again.
1995 saw the release of Orbus Terrarum, an album many Orb officianados see as something of a lost classic. The last album to feature Kris ‘Thrash’ Weston (who would be replaced with Andy Hughes), it still baffled many UK critics who were, at the time, in thrall to the prevailing flavour du jour of Britpop, yet it proved to be the bands biggest success in the U.S. More organic and straight-forward than its predecessor only one single, Oxbox Lakes was lifted from the album.
2 years later in 1996 and the Orb would return with Orbilivion, an album that would see them return to the commercial success they had achieved with their first two albums and spawn what was to be their biggest single to date. Now primarily Paterson & Hughes, the Orb scored their 1st top 5 single with Toxygene the first single to be lifted from the album. Starting life as a rejected remix of the Jean Michel Jarre track Oxygene (turned down as it bore no resemblance to the original) the single reached number 4 in January of 1996. The album saw the band re-capture some critical ground as reviews celebrated the long-player as something of a ‘return to form’.
Despite the various corporate reshuffles at the Orb’s label, Cydonia, the final album for Island, finally emerged in 2001. Recorded in 1999, the album played to the Orb’s strengths. Moments of bass heavy ambience, recalling the heady days of the early 90’s sat alongside ‘pop’ moments such as the first single from the album, Once More. Soon after its release the band parted company with the label, following a final ‘greatest hits’ complilation U.F.Off and a legendary show at the Royal Albert Hall.
THE HISTORY
Essentially the brainchild of Alex Paterson, the Orb sprang forth from the punk rock ethos of ‘anything-goes’. Initially working with Killing Joke’s Youth and KLF-er Jimmy Cauty and inspired by New York mix-tapes from the likes of Shep Pettibone, the Orb’s initial game plan was to operate outside any restrictive notion of genre by utilising anything from dub to punk to abstract electronic bleeps and blips. The mentality, which spawned the Orb, stemmed from having a laugh but being deadly serious about amazing music of whatever strain or period.
With the advent of acid-house in 1988 their ambient workings and DJ sets, which straddled the gaps between the ambience of Eno & White Noise, early house tracks and the wide-screen space of classic dub, saw them much in demand in the capitals nascent club-scene. Providing back-room entertainment at legendary bashes such as Trancentral and Land of Oz the early incarnation of the Orb soon gained a reputation for something different in a world where the 4/4 beat ruled supreme.
It wasn’t long before their formative ideas made it to vinyl and early releases such as A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Ultraworld and Little Fluffy Clouds became acclaimed as defining a genre that would be loosely referred to as ‘ambient-house’.
Their debut album, The Orb’s Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld, released in 1991 established them as one of the UK’s most innovative and expansive electronic bands; a deeply textured album of other-worldly sounds and subtle beats it was widely hailed as unique and highly original record.
The following year, 1992, saw the release of arguably their ‘piece de la resistance’ U.F.Orb which saw them really capture the spirit of the time: rumbling bass heavy moments in dub, dis-jointed snippets of sound, abstract beats and dialogue segments from long-forgotten counter-culture films. It reached number one upon release, the first album by a British electronic / dance act to do so and went on to become one of the definitive electronic releases of the period.
20-years after acid-house first exploded it’s easy to forget how pioneering artists such as the Orb really were. They took the DIY ethos of punk and fused it with a sense of musical exploration afforded by the explosion of electronic music and created a sound that was unique and something that would spawn a slew of imitators.
Alex would continue to record as the Orb putting out albums that continued to explore beyond the norm and became a much in-demand collaborator / remixer working with the likes of Primal Scream who all appreciated the pranksters one-off, devil-may-care musical abilities.
The full tracklisting of the albums are as follows:
Pomme Fritz
Disc 1 (original album)
Pomme Fritz (Meat ‘n’ Veg)
More Gills Less Fish Cakes
We’re Pastie To Be Grill You
Bang ‘Er ‘N’ Chips
Alles Ist Schoen
His Immortal Logness
Disc 2 (Remixes)
Sausage Tats Mit Gravy (Dom Mix no.1)
Star Twister (Pomme Fritz & Apple Sauce Mix)
Potato Fields Of Electric Gliding Blue (Ambient Mix)
Eastern Hot Dogs In Gardens Of Dub (Lx Mix)
Wrapped With Salt & Vinegar (Thomas Fehlmann Mix)
Orbus Terrarum
Disc 1 (original album)
Valley
Plateau
Oxbox Lakes
Montagne D’or (Der Gute Berg)
White River Junction
Occidental
Slug Dub
Disc 2 (Remixes)
Plateau (All Hands On Deck Mix – 2am)
Slug Dub (Dumpy Dub)
Valley (Mix 3 Dubby)
White River Junction (Zoom Vinegar Mix)
Oxbox Lakes (Andy’s Space Mix)
Peace Pudding (Occidental)
Orblivion
Disc 1 (original album)
Delta Mk II
Ubiquity
Asylum
Bedouin
Molten Love
Pi - Part One
S.A.L.T
Toxygene
Log Of Deadwood
Secrets
Passing Of Time
72
Disc 2 (remixes)
Delta Mk II (Love Bites Mix)
Bedouin (The Sheiks Film Mix)
Log Of Deadwood (Implanting Machines Mix)
Secrets (I Love A Woman In Uniform Mix)
Passing Of Time (Ambient Mix)
Molten Love (Orbits Of Venus Mix)
S.A.L.T. (Snow Mix)
Toxygene (Kris Needs Up For A Fortnight Mix)
Asylum (Soul Catcher Mix)
Cydonia
Disc 1 (original album)
Once More
Promis
Ghostdancing
Turn It Down
Egnable
Firestar
A Mile Long Lump Of Lard
Centuries
Plum Island
Hamlet Of Kings
1,1,1
Edm – The Blackhole Mix
Thursday’s Keeper
Terminus
Disc 2 (remixes)
Centuries (Europhen Mix)
Ghostdancing (version)
Hamlet Of Kings (version)
Firestar (Front Bits)
Centuries (Wine, Woman & King Mix)
Once More (Scourge Of The Earth Mix)
Plum Island (Flat Mix)
Promis (Version)
Once More (Bedrock Edit 2)
Turn It Down (Long Version)
Terminus (Andy’s Mix)
For further information contact:
Steve Phillips
Coalition PR 0208 987 0123
Steve@coalitiongroup.co.uk
What a crazy, amazing summer! It went way to fast but I loved every second of it. I'm sad to leave my Minny friends and family but I'm excited to get back to my Miami fam! Time to start paddling back to the OxBox for round 2! #miamioh #loveandhonor
The biggest problem I had in the Tetons was wondering what to shhot next. This is more from the Oxbox bend. If you ever have a chance to tour the Tetons don't pass it up. It is one of Gods greatest gifts.