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New single from Fire! Orchestra - new album on the way (2CD/3LP)!

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Feel it all go. Let them all go. Let us all go. Let it all go.

Could you see there's nothing that we can hold? Nothing we can control? Still want to keep it a private secret to whisk your own into the branches of old oaks? Into the mouth of rocks? Into the solemn ground? Into the mist that flows around?

Straight into old black holes that was never made, and then the black turned green, and the green turned brown, and then the brown slowly, slowly fades, slowly fades into black again

And then the night took up the whisper. So, so, so that the whisper goes silent and never stops

To start over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again and so it rolls and turns and freeze and burned and bleed and dry

You got us all to fly. You got to fall to fly. And Cry to rise. You gotta die to live. And live to die. You really gotta exit to enter. And enter to exist

You got it, fire!

Fire

Please. Please, Fire!

Stay with me.

Fire! Orchestra - Exit!

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Arrival, Fire! Orchestra (2019)

There’s something so fundamentally fresh about Fire! Orchestra’s latest that it’s difficult not to find engrossing. Big band jazz with influences of minimalism, avant-garde jazz, modern classical music and perhaps even Swans-esque post-rock, Arrival is a huge and ambitious work. Extended tracks work the Orchestra’s ideas through multiple phases, weighing up overt experimentalism with stylistic consistency and overall coherence. Highlights include ‘Weekends (The Soil is Calling)’, which transforms rhythmic fusion into cacophonous big-band experimental jazz; and ‘Silver Trees’, a marching, blossoming number that emerges as a piece of polyrhythmic ecstasy – a bit like elements of Sons of Kemet’s Your Queen Is A Reptile but on a more huge, apocalyptic scale. That lingering apocalypticism is in many ways the record’s defining feature. Whether it’s the aforementioned tracks, the Chic cover ‘At Last I Am Free’ or ‘Blue Crystal Fire’, a Robbie Basho cover that’s thunderous and patient with tinges of second-wave post-rock, the Orchestra provide for a daunting, haunting and jolting big band experience.

Pick: ‘Silver Trees’