The Orphanage Committee – Continuities Vol.1 (Album – EE Tapes)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Dark-Ambient.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: The Orphanage Committee is a new project driven by Belgian artist Orphan S.C. Wallace. The artist created this album as an homage to the 35th anniversary of EE Tapes.
Content: The work features 5 extended pieces revealing a kind of dark Soundscape approach. Monotonous sound waves are evolving to a crescendo. The tracks feature an impressive canvas of field recordings while passages are featuring blasting sound treatments. There’s also a sort of metallic percussion reminding me of the early years of Industrial/Experimental music when artists where using recycled material.
+ + + : This album is bringing the spirit of early Industrialists to life. There’s a strong 80s touch which has been masterly mixed with dark electronic atmospheres and buzzing sound waves. The atmosphere has something hostile reaching an apotheosis on the second cut. It also sounds a bit Ritual-like. There’s also something to say about both last tracks leading this opus to an ominous end.
– – – : I now and then would like to hear a bit more diversity in the songwriting. The sound formula quickly becomes predictable.
Conclusion: This debut album by The Orphanage Committee is a perfect ambassador to the great Experimental taste of this Belgian underground label.
Best songs: “Continuity II”, “Continuity V”, “Continuity IV”.
Rate: 8.
Listen to “Continuities Vol. I”:
Label: www.eetapes.be / www.facebook.com/eriek.vanhavere
About The Orphanage Committee
The Orphanage Committee is the experimental project of Belgian artist Orphan S.C. Wallace, who treats the committee as an abstract entity whose different faces surface across the styles he explores. All sound and visual work is credited to Wallace. The project works closely with the Belgian label EE Tapes, based in Sint-Niklaas.
“Continuities Vol. I” was released on 6 January 2022 as a limited CD in a jewel case and as a digital album, and holds five tracks running from “Continuity I” to “Continuity V”. EE Tapes states the record was created as an homage to the label’s 35 years of activity.
Further EE Tapes albums followed: “The Seven Sacraments” in 2023, “Sol In Solus” in 2024, and “Continuities Vol.II In The Context Of A Room”, which continues the series started here.
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