ORPLID - new album Sterbender Satyr will be released in March - 2006/02/17
ORPLID´s third album "Sterbender Satyr" is scheduled for release on March 24, 2006. The trademark of the band from Halle is a successful mosaic of language, music, and representing images. Apart from almost purely acoustic songs, however, the new album sees the artists increasingly aiming for more ethereal soundscapes.
ORPLID's "Sterbender Satyr" is as successful a mosaic of language, music, and representing images, as were their earlier releases. Apart from almost purely acoustic, mostly guitar-based songs, however, their new release sees Frank Machau and Uwe Nolte increasingly aiming for more ethereal soundscapes.Aside from Uwe's distinctive lyrics, it has become a cherished stable of ORPLID to include settings of classical poetry on their albums. Uwe takes considerable pride in their interpretation of Oda Schaefer´s poem „Die Seherin“, a track that ranks with ORPLID´s most expressive works. On this song the group collaborated with the artist Sandra Fink from Leipzig whose vocal delivery "is a reflection of the poem's archaic depths, rendered with a theatrical sensibility."
"Sterbender Satyr" underlines a development that was already apparent in its predecessor, "Nächtliche Juenger" (2003): ORPLID are not a pure (Neo) Folk band, even if their early releases might have made that impression. The two musicians are rather constantly working on their unique settings of Uwe's "New German Poetry": lyrical, fragile, and sensitive, but powerful in expression and interpretation.