- Audio CD (1 Jan 2009)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Island
- ASIN: B000008107
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Vinyl
- Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 80,186 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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A downright minimal 40-minute outing from a pioneering English techno duo who on earlier discs required that long to warm up. And with six discrete "pieces," there are more ideas and musical themes here than is the norm with both the band and the genre. The title track, with its "you've just had a heavy session of electroshock therapy" voiceover, is the trippiest headphone experience in years. --Jeff Bateman
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THE ORB Pomme Fritz (Original out of print 1994 UK 6-track The Orbs Little Album CD EP complete with the original picture sleeve ORBCD1)
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The 9 minute title track with its symphonic overtones opens this charming album with its varied sonic textures and interesting samples. More Gills Less Fishcakes starts of with a strange cacophony of barely audibly voice and loud noise samples cleverly integrated and then turns into a type of eerie bleepfest with discordant percussion, synth whooshes and voice samples. Somewhere in all of this there is a melody.
The electronic textures of the opening of We’re Pastie To Be Grill You sounds like The Residents before the track evolves into an interesting experiment with human voice samples, only to change again into synthesizers first tinkling and screaming, then gurgling and burping; a track very hard to describe.
Banger And Chips provides welcome relief with its dreamlike melody and lilting rhythm, quite a hypnotic and engaging piece of music. The next one Alles Ist Schoen has an atmospheric female vocal and more lovely ambient sounds and flows out on evocative synth strains reminiscent of Autechre.
The last short track, His Immortal Logness, has beautiful organ sounds and just a snatch or two of samples. Throughout the album, there is a male vocal sample that refers to electroshock therapy and that ties the whole together thematically, I suppose.
Although Pomme Friz has its moments, it does not represent The Orb’s best work and is not cohesive enough. I recommend the listener interested in The Orb to investigate the albums Orbus Terrarum and Adventures beyond The Ultraworld to hear the best of this innovative band.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Pomme Fritz, Pomme Fritz ... The Orb's little album. In the sequence of Orb releases this came after UFOrb and before Orbus Terrarum and kind of explains the leap in sound. UFOrb dealt mainly with what is generally known as the ambient house movement, while Orbus Terrarum left their Little Fluffy Clouds roots behind in favour of a more experimental conceptual vision. I tend to think of Pomme Fritz as a 40 minute long variation on a theme, with the theme becoming more abstract as it reaches its peak with the madness of We're Pastie To Be Grill (garbled samples, strange beepings, manual power lawnmowers!) before starting to bliss out and ending with the wonderful chill of Alles Ist Schoen. Its not the most easy listen in the world, one to return to once you've forgotten what it was all about ... but still a worthy purchase for Orb completists. The nearest you can come to LSD in aural form, it sends you into the brink of madness before chilling you out at the end. DON'T start off your Orb experiences with this though! Head for the first album Ultraworld if you want to get into The Orb!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I love this album and have listened to it many times over the years. It is not your usual cup of tea i admit ie it lacks coherence of song structure in places but that is why it is so good. From the out you are thrown into a world of soundscapes from chaotic mish mash of different samples distored and looped over samples of,, well i,m not sure of what but it works, to beautifull slow trance like ambient tunes towards the end of the album that lap at the mind like waves up a beach. Not a long album (just over 40 mins) and the last song is too quirky to be good, but if you are a fan of trippy ambient tunes you should defienatly check this out.
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I love The Orb but this almost put me in a coma!
Really boring!
You might as well put 4 pans full of veg & water on your cooker & let em boil for about an hour & sit... Read more
Really boring!
You might as well put 4 pans full of veg & water on your cooker & let em boil for about an hour & sit... Read more
Published 16 months ago by PhilthyPhil
Bizarre!
I remember the fuss over this cd when it came out, back in 1994 (is it really 10 years ago????). The media weren't too pleased with it at all, as they wanted more of what had made... Read more
Published on 3 Jan 2004 by Guy
deep , melodic , chaotic , surrealism
I dont know what, if any, the inspiration was behind this album but me and my friends have had many nights over the years listening to its strange mix of harmonic samples, ambient... Read more
Published on 28 Jan 2003 by Rob.D
Disturbing headswim sounds
I will never feel comfortable in a chip shop again... This album is too scarey to be enjoyable unless you are the sort who likes to feel disorientated when you listen to music (and... Read more
Published on 17 April 2001 by micheo@globalnet.co.uk
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