The Orbweavers' debut album Graphite & Diamonds is available online here:
$19.00 including postage and handling
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The Orbweavers' debut album Graphite & Diamonds is available online here:
$19.00 including postage and handling
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From the tangled threads of Brunswick's derelict textile mills come The Orbweavers with their debut album Graphite & Diamonds.
Marita Dyson & Stuart Flanagan formed The Orbweavers in 2006 while working at the city museum and library, writing songs on scrap catalogue cards by day, playing in the kitchen by night. Before long, they recruited friends Dave Leggatt (Mercury Spectres) on drums, Paddy Mann (Grand Salvo) on bass, and Dan Aulesbrook on trumpet to complete a quintet, and set about recording an album at the 5th Brunswick Scout Hall.
Graphite & Diamonds is a collection of 11 dark and dulcet songs straight from the abandoned knitting mills of their neighbourhood: a world of chiming electric guitar, haunted violin, mystery, and fittingly in this international year of astronomy 2009, the Moon. Beautiful folk melodies interplay with David Lynchian electric noir guitar, recalling early Belle & Sebastian, and the hushed vocals of Mazzy Star.
Drawn from a love of history and natural sciences, Graphite & Diamonds is "atmospheric and spooky, if this album was a thing, it would be a ladybeetle with long eyelashes, knitting a shawl of silver and gold" (Jenny O' Keefe, Cherrie Magazine & Joy FM)
Marita was born in May, and loves the autumn, gardening and drawing. She is interested in pins, needles and vines, and does the artwork for Orbweavers posters and releases. She loves Japan, and one day wishes to live on a mountain there, in a wooden house, drinking sake under an old, old pine tree. In times past, Marita sang back ups and played fiddle in a country band.
Stuart Flanagan loves the colour grey, building structures for climbing vegetables, and the mysteries of zeros and ones. He has a dream of living in Japanese mountains, drinking sake and looking out over the maples turning red. He also loves to cook and walk with his greyhound.
David Leggatt, fellow Mercury Spectre alumnus, has been tapping out the rhythms of the north side for some time. With brushes of silver fox tail, he divides his time between the pressures of the real life audio industry, and the informal loom of the Orbweavers. Dave has some lovely mics and vintage shot glasses, from which he serves deliciously potent, Polish amber liqueurs of honey & walnut.
Paddy Mann has a faithful bass guitar, which shows no jealousy towards the resonant wooden instruments that accompany his Grand Salventures. He treats them all fairly, invoking his powers as a Mercury Spectre alumnus to justly disperse his attentions, like a magic silver ghost. Paddy has released five beautiful albums as Grand Salvo.
Dan Aulsebrook has a fine collection of 60s soul 45s, and an even finer silver trumpet. Dan earned his chops at the local conservatorium by day, and swing bands by night. Last year found him in the Caledonian highlands sampling single malts and contemplating the Northwest Passage. Luckily for the Orbweavers, he returned home just in time for an album launch.