Prolusion

Editorial Reviews
About the Artist
Left Orbit Temple was founded in 1997 by James Teitelbaum, who had previously played synth/sampler in bands like Pigface, Evil Clowns, and Flat Earth Society, and who had (among other things) also worked on Ministry’s tech crew, and as an engineer for Royal Crown Revue. Deciding the time was right to strike out on his own, he began composing a new body of songs, which is something he had done quite a lot of in prior years, but had stopped doing for a long time in the early-mid 1990’s.

Bringing in a wide array of friends to help him flesh out the tracks, James named the band Left Orbit Temple, and the CD Prolusion. The CD was released on Tydirium Multimedia's records division, and is available for sale on their web site.

He also decided that he wanted the CD to be something truly special and unique, so he decided to include a CD-Enhanced section which would feature the work of nine artists working in virtually all imaginable media.

In this way, the project became more of an ‘arts magazine on a disc’ with James giving equal weight and promotion to the visual artists as he did to his own music.

Wrangling nine artists and some fifteen musicians, JamTen new songs by es has begun to think of himself as the ‘director’ of Left Orbit Temple, more than a band leader or composer. Future CD releases will include new combinations of artists - both musical and visual - making each LOT release a mutating collaboration.

Album Description
Left Orbit Temple is committed to exploring tribal art in a post industrial world. The CD/CD-ROM contains ten new songs by Left Orbit Temple (Itch • Eview • Doctor Vestio • Mesmerized • Mirbat • Honu • Happy • Beautiful World • Darker • Rongo Rongo) plus a multimedia section playable on your Mac or PC featuring work by nine different non-musical artists.

Tracks:

Sound of Music (Pt. II)
Disembodied Heads
What Is the Colour of Your Kindness?
Thank You for Asking
Dear. Mr. Echo
Sound of Music (Pt. III)
This Apparatus Must Be Earthed
Blue Angel (Intro)
Blue Angel
Sound of Music (Pt. I)
Sound of Music (Pt. II V2.1)
Blue Angel [Orange County Mix]

Average customer rating:

Prolusion is the precursor to greatness
Left Orbit Temple release one of the best debut CD's ever!

Prolusion

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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005854H
Release Date: 2000-12-20

Tracks:

Itch
Eview
Doctor Vestio
Mesmerized
Mirbat
Honu
Happy
Beautiful World
Darker
Rongo Rongo

Album Description

Left Orbit Temple is committed to exploring tribal art in a post industrial world. The CD/CD-ROM contains ten new songs by Left Orbit Temple (Itch • Eview • Doctor Vestio • Mesmerized • Mirbat • Honu • Happy • Beautiful World • Darker • Rongo Rongo) plus a multimedia section playable on your Mac or PC featuring work by nine different non-musical artists.

Customer Reviews:

Prolusion is the precursor to greatness.......2004-03-24

Left Orbit Temple is a not for profit project, committed to disseminating new art. LOT consists of a rotating group of musicians and visual artists working in all possible media.

Left Orbit Temple is working on an ongoing series of Enhanced CDs. The visual artists' work and other multimedia content can be found on the CD-ROM half of the discs, the music portion of the project is on the audio CD half.

Artists and musicians are selected for inclusion by Left Orbit Temple founder James Teitelbaum.

The musical tracks (collaborative efforts between all of the musicians involved), are largely improvised under the guidance of James Teitelbaum (with the assistance of A. Sam Pleur). Improvisations are later edited and remixed into more cohisive form.

The current Left Orbit Temple disc is called "Prolusion" and was released as a pilot project to generate interest in LOT and to draw more artists and musicians into the project.

The second release is currently in production.

Artists and musicians featured on Prolusion include: Derek Geisser, Erin Mosher, Charles Levi, Ron Roesing, Pete Farrugia, Alison Chesley, Eric Pounder, Gabriel Nuzzoli, Thomas Neidhardt, Paul Alodi, Steve Dorocke, David Carter, Rene J. Cigler, Shane Swank, Anna Simone Levin, James Woodruff, E. Gabriel Edvy, Theresa Witek, Matt Busch, and Misha.

Themes explored in both the art and music include dreams and the subconcious, modern primitivism, and the exotic.

Left Orbit Temple's creators think of the project as an experimental arts magazine distributed on a disc. This format allows the inclusion of music and video selections along with still images and text.

Left Orbit Temple release one of the best debut CD's ever!.......2001-03-14

This project seems like something of a supergroup with members of Pigface, Thrill Kill Kult, Verbow, Die Schon, and a bunch of others, however the main dude seems to be this James fella. Although the players come largely from an industrial background, the music is very ambient, mellow, and has a real authentic tribal feel to it. It does not reeally even feel like an electronic record, although clealry many synths and samplers were used. I didn't detect any snare drums on the record - it's all tribal beats. I also liked that there is a CD-ROM on the disc that has little or nothing to do with the music - it has ten artists work on it. This is a really cool concept in that all of the people on the disc - musical or visual - are reaching new audiences - sort of a big cross-pollenation of not only musical genres, but completely different forms of artistic expression as well. I love this thing!

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