ORION & J.SHORE - BROTHERHOOD (Album Out Now)

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Orion & J.Shore – Brotherhood
Genre: Downtempo, chill-out
Release Date: Dec 16 2011
Label: Silk Sofa Music
Cat: SILKA002

Tracklist:
1 Orion & J.Shore – One Sunday (Original Mix)
2 Orion & J.Shore – Architect’s Dream (Album Reconstruction)
3 Orion & J.Shore – Oasis (Original Mix)
4 Orion & J.Shore – Nails (Original Mix)
5 Orion & J.Shore – Departed (Original Mix)
6 Orion & J.Shore – White Birds (Original Mix)
7 Slusnik Luna – Sun (Orion & J.Shore Remix)
8 Ralphie B – Massive (Orion & J.Shore Remix)
9 Orion & J.Shore – Brotherhood (Album Edit)
10 Orion & J.Shore – The Night After (Original Mix)
11 London Elektricity – Just One Second (Orion & J.Shore Remix)

Credits

Written, produced and performed by Juska Wendland & Joonas Mikkilä
Recorded and mixed in Helsinki, Berlin, Tampere & Jyväskylä
Mastered by Gavin Harrison
Cover art by Jonathan Ben-Ami
Violins / cellos by Petra Piiroinen, Sauli Pulkkinen, Satu-Maija Aalto, and Iida Olsonen
Pianos by Joonas Mikkilä
Trumpet on tracks 02 and 09 by Antti Hevosmaa
Guitars on track 02 and 10 by Lauri Kallio
Flute on track 10 by Lauri Kallio
Track 01 licensed courtesy of MRC / Solaris
Track 08 licensed courtesy of Black Hole Recordings B.V.
Track 09 licensed courtesy of MRC / Lost Language
Track 11 licensed courtesy of Hospital Records

ALBUM PREVIEW 1/11

Orion & J.Shore - One Sunday

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J.Shore: "I still remember that Sunday morning in autumn 2008. We were partying the whole previous night and the session next morning didn't look too good. Even though it was our first time making music together, the track was finished only in a couple of hours. Magical session."

Orion: "One Sunday is our very first single. It was highly supported by DJ Orkidea who introduced us and our music to Solarstone while he was on a gig in Tampere. Solarstone signed the track to his label Solaris and Beetseekers, Cid Inc, Sami Saari, Syna and Ville Lope delivered superb and very Finnish sounding remixes. It was a clear choice to open our debut album."

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Fun facts about the track "Architect's Dream".

For the album version we added the piano theme after the breakdown, which also includes one of the most cliche jazz phrases.

Listen the lick here: http://bit.ly/ad-lick
and compare it to this video:

ALBUM PREVIEW 2/11

Orion & J.Shore - Architect's Dream (Album reconstruction)

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J.Shore: "Architect's Dream got started from an old draft which I kept on my computer. Building the track was a very architectural process for us - having just the melody and adding layers and layers on it. For the album version we added the piano theme after the breakdown, which also includes one of the most cliche jazz phrases. Cliche or not - it works here brilliantly."

(Check the jazz phrase: listen to the clip of Architect's Dream here: and compare it to the video here: )

Orion: "Rich (Solarstone) was compiling his Electronic Architecture 2 compilation and asked if we would have any ambient/chill-out tune ready. Architect's Dream was just a very nasty sounding draft at that time but Rich heard the potential and asked us to finish it. It became the closing track of Electronic Architecture 2 and got really nice reviews. The album version is slightly altered with a new piano theme, mixing and the intro vocal."

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Orion & J.Shore - Oasis

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J.Shore: "The chord progression was born after watching too many episodes of "The Street" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472984/). Compare it to the main theme in the beginning of each episode and you'll get why. The hard part was to find a good fitting melody which runs well together with the chords, but after a session or two we had it there. Looking forward to see this as the theme of "The Street" on the next season."

Orion: "The idea was to create something nature-themed, peaceful and beautiful, but we ended up with a track which is probably the most haunting on the whole album. The arped bells which little by little mess up the main melody and the ever-growing, murmuring bass-pad give the feeling of uneasiness. Ending the track like that was actually an accident - we were already starting to build the second part, but after listening to the second breakdown we were like 'why wouldn't we just leave it here'?."

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Orion & J.Shore - Nails

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J.Shore: For me it's always been hard to understand the monotonic feel of electronic music - and especially hard to compose anything like it. Maybe my own taste of music has developed during this album making process because now Nails is definitely among my favorite tracks of the album. That kid laughing reminds me of the face of Richard D. James.

Orion: The voice says: "deru kugi wa utareru" which means "The nail that sticks up will be hammered down". The first version sounded a bit lame, but after adding some japanese throat singing as a layer to the bottom we started to reach the ethnic touch we were hoping in the first place. But hey, doesn't any proper chill-out track need an old throat-singer, kids laughing and some Japanese guy chanting weird stuff?

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Orion & J.Shore - Departed

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J.Shore: Departed is one of those "epic tracks in E minor" on the album in addition to Brotherhood and White Birds. The drums and arrangement break apart the otherwise a bit too obvious soundtrackish soundscape. Before we started making this, we got some inspiration from the almighty (and slightly corny;) Braveheart soundtrack. Or how about this:

Orion: Yes, I remember we listened to the Braveheart soundtrack and while making the arrangement I can recall having an image in my head of super slow-motion William Wallace running over the field. How corny is that?! Live recorded strings work really well here (thanks to our amazing players) and the title was inspired by a classic movie quote: "Heaven holds the faithful departed". Remember the film?

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Orion & J.Shore - White Birds

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J.Shore: Before this track came together, there were two unfinished drum'n'bass drafts which we decided to try to combine - one had White Birds' guitar theme as a melody and one had the strings. It took a bit of patience to get those two work together, but in the end it seemed to be worth it. When White Birds was still just a draft we thought it might work pretty well on the dancefloor - an assumption which Heikki L & Tom Fall later proved correct.

Orion: Jacob Henry from Silk Recordings saw White Birds' potential right after the first listen and wanted it to be released as one of the album singles. He had a good ear - White Birds became the most successful single release of Brotherhood with really great remixes from Tom Fall & Heikki L. Armin van Buuren opened nearly all of his tour shows in Australia/Asia in Nov/Dec 2011 with Tom's remix. I think all the remixers have done amazing job with the album tracks - turning 160bpm chill-out/drum'n'bass track into a dance floor friendly proghouse/trance tune isn't one of the most straight-forward remixing tasks.

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Tilattu. Nyt odotellaan että levy saapuu kotiin ja saa soittoon.

Tilattu. Nyt odotellaan että levy saapuu kotiin ja saa soittoon.

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Slusnik Luna - Sun (Orion & J.Shore remix)

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J.Shore: The original chords were already so massive that we decided not to reinvent the wheel but just to make a loooong buildup for the existing theme. When recording live strings for the track, some electric guitars parts were also recorded (hello kitschy 1980's!). They didn't end up to the final version, but I wonder what Slusnik boys would have said about them... Listen to the clip of Sun (electric guitar edit) here:

Orion: We were super excited to make a remix of "Sun" and slightly disappointed when it then finally seemed that it would not end up to the official Anjunabeats release. I kept telling myself it's no wonder - why would a trance label a release a 10 minute chill-out remix next to banging club versions of the track. Not Anjuna style at all. Therefore it was a big surprise when Allan from Anjunabeats mailed me after two weeks and asked to finish the remix asap. We got the live strings recorded über quick and thanks to very flexible and friendly attitude from both Niko from Slusnik Luna and Allan from Anjunathe track was finally added to our album, too.

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Ralphie B - Massive (Orion & J.Shore remix)

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J.Shore: When Juska suggested to make a remix of Massive, I didn't believe it could be possible. However, the original had several different themes in it and turning the original into a chill-out version was surprisingly easy in the end. Woodwinds and vocals gave the remix an unique touch and using rather massive drums was an inspiration later when we were making beats for "Departed".

Orion: Massive remix was our third or fourth track we made together and the first try to bring something trancey (and nearly 140bpm) to the world of chill-out. The original version from 2004 is still one of my all-time favourite trance tracks and getting good words from Ralphie B after finishing this remix as a bootleg was super nice - let alone that Ralphie and his label finally also gave a permission for the official release. This is also the very first track in which we used arpeggiators to simulate the feeling of the original track - you can spot nearly the same arps in "Sun" remix, too.

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