The Orphanage Committee – The Seven Sacraments (Album – EE Tapes)
Jesus in stained glass
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Abstract.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: Orphan S.C. Wallace strikes back with a new work. This project has been very prolific in a very short lapse of time. The title indicates what it is all about; a conceptual work wherein the seven sacraments have been interpreted into two cuts.
Content: We get two extended cuts which are quite diversified in their global form. Multiple influences are emerging revealing slow rhythms, dark, psychedelic sound treatments, obscure atmospheres and even a kind of surprising, sweet, dark, Lounge final part. On top you’ll hear fragments of speeches which are into the concept of the work.
+ + + : It’s an accessible work in the Abstract/Experimental genre. The diversity of both cuts -which sound like featuring different parts, reveal cool passages. I prefer the second cut for its deep, buzzing, and vintage sound treatments while the ending part with slow rhythms and this kind of Dark-Lounge style is really great.
– – – : You really have to be patient and listen carefully to notice the true essence of the work. It however isn’t the most accessible music genre.
Conclusion: Religion remains a great inspiration to music artists and this interpretation of the seven sacraments is an original one.
Best songs: “Interpretation II”.
Rate: 7.
Artist: www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100088677280058
Label: www.eetapes.be / www.facebook.com/eriek.vanhavere
About The Orphanage Committee
The Orphanage Committee is a Belgian solo project run by Orphan S.C. Wallace, based in Sint-Niklaas and released through the Belgian label EE Tapes. The project debuted in January 2022 with “Continuities Vol. I,” issued as a tribute marking the 35th anniversary of EE Tapes, followed in December 2022 by the debut LP “A Significant Change,” which mixed sequencers and drum machines with sampled voices and chants into dark, industrial-leaning beats.
“The Seven Sacraments,” reviewed here, followed two months later in February 2023, built around two extended tracks that interpret the seven Catholic sacraments through slow rhythms, psychedelic sound treatments and spoken-word fragments.
Wallace closed out the year with “Sol in Solus” in October 2023, a ten-part concept album about nature and self-reflection, continuing the project’s pattern of releasing markedly different-sounding work in short succession.
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