Currently viewing: Home » Archives for July 2012

Monthly Archives: July 2012

2nd Album Announcement – ‘Archipelago’

We are pleased and delighted to announce the second Hidden Orchestra album! ‘Archipelago’ will be released on October 1st… The artwork used for the cover, as with Night Walks and the Flight EP, is again by Norman Ackroyd – it’s a detail from an etching called ‘Roareim’, and is of the Flannan Isles in the [...]

Posted in News | Comments closed

Flight Mixtape

The Flight Mixtape went online back in January, and has had a great response across various sites. Joe made it to celebrate the release of the Flight EP – starting and finishing with different versions of title track Flight, with the mixtape speeding up throughout from 70bpm to 140bpm. Features the usual eclectic and intricately-woven [...]

Posted in News | Comments closed
  • “…two drummers, a laptopper, Joe Acheson on bass and an impressive array of samplers, dials, cables, knobs, and levers, plus a violinist and cellist both poised in front of their music stands as if this was the Usher Hall. The resulting music is a beguiling, psychedelic, lush, sweeping and groovy hybrid of trip-hop swagger, discerning drum’n’bass, epic soundscapes, funky electronica, cosmic zouk, melancholy space synth, Ozric Tentacles-esque danceability, and impeccable nu-classical. But above all, Joe Acheson’s music is delightfully cinematic and makes out of the post-rock ideals the very music that they should spawn.” — Ali Maloney,
    Skinny Magazine

  •  

    Hidden Orchestra at Glastonbury Arcadia Departure Lounge/Jazz Festival, Edinburgh 2010 Jamie & Tim (A Mckenna) Hidden Orchestra at Kelburn Garden Party 2