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Had a few nice reviews in this morning for the latest Village Orchestra release:

The Milk Factory:
“With this beautiful work, Ruaridh Law has developed the lush and rich textures of Et In Arcadia Ego into a wonderful sonic tale, with diverse elements woven together into a hypnotic soundtrack. I Can Hear The Sirrens Singing Again is a truly accomplished piece of work which confirms, if necessary, Law as one of the most interesting ambient artists to have emerged from Scotland in recent years.”

Drowned In Sound:
“I Can Hear the Sirens Singing Again is a one-track, hour-long ambient production from prolific Glaswegian Ruaridh Law, who also records as Accrual, Village Unit and TVO. Moving through passages of granular fizz, drone, running water, turntablist spinbacks, backwards vocals and some vast, echoing reverberations, it’s a fascinating piece of work even when experienced separately from weird Japanese telly”

Norman Records:
“‘I Can Hear The Sirens Singing Again’ is a limited to 100 CDr release (packaged lovingly in a slimline dvd cover with awesome manga inspired cover art and snippet of a manga comic book inside) by Glaswegian all-rounder Ruaridh Law under the guise of The Village Orchestra. The project is inspired by a Japanese television show called ‘MPD Psycho’ produced by Takashi Miike (Audition, Ichi The Killer) at the end of the nineties. It sounds like a nutty show that combines tragedy and comedy in equal measures and follows the exploits of a detective who suffers from multiple personality disorder, hence the name ‘MPD Psycho’ (Multiple Personality Detective Psycho). Ruaridh is the first to admit that this is a vanity project based on his love for the show and i assume thats why it’s such a small run of copies. I still think this is totally awesome. It was meant as a live soundtrack to the first episode of the series so it probably works loads better with the accompanying film but as a stand alone release it still holds up. The bulk of the one hour of music is both minimal and industrial with hints of melody occasionally coming to the fore-front, this is all achieved by processing and manipulation of odd and found sounds. A real beast of record thats well worth a peek if your into the ambient end of Nadja’s material or you just enjoy excellent soundtrack music. Now I gotsta track down a box set of the series…….”