C Batter C (CD + DVD) (2011)

"After the cosmic collaboration with David Gilmour, Metallic Spheres (2010), The Orb come back down to earth with a bump for "C Batter C". Its effectively a soundtrack for a film and an exhibition. The rather beautiful-looking CD and DVD deals with the persistence of memory and the fragility of these over time. The DVD has the complete video installation from the exhibition, a moving and meandering trip of over half a century ago. This old footage is intermixed with new film from 2010, blending and overlaying the images together to see the change in locations over time and in some cases how they have hardly changed at all. The Orbs music fits wonderfully with the images, but we must turn to the CD to see if it stands on its own merits. The audio section of this release contains the original soundtrack plus various remixes. This reminds of Brian Enos 70s work, to the instrumental pieces on David Sylvians "Gone To Earth" album and to the sound of later Test Department albums. (Gary Parsons, Freq.org)

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