Drone Records

SION ORGON - Dust

Format: LP

Label & Cat.Number: Lumberton Trading Company LUMB029LP

Release Year: 2021

Note: the 5th full album by this Welsh project, 'impossible to categorize' avantgardish Pop / Rock, feat. THIGHPAULSANDRA and many other guests... "within these 6 tracks he moves seamlessly from noisy indie rock, abstract ambient to and back, with a grand finale of heartfelt and moving psychedelic rock....While this release basically lasts only 6 tracks in barely 40 Minutes it really kicks ass, ashes and dust at once." [CHAIN D.L.K.] - lim. vinyl version 300 copies

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Limited edition 12' Vinyl.
Sion Orgon's 5th album featuring Thighpaulsandra, Richard Johnson, Claudio Gian and many other guests.

or a number of years now, Sion Orgon has been crafting music that fuses abstract electronic mulch with the kind of bright melodies one would expect from a shiny pop group. Using avant-garde sensibilities and a vision partly shaped by his affiliation with both Thighpaulsandra and Coil, the Welsh producer/musician has never been afraid to push these into areas most artists of a similar disposition would never be bold enough to touch. At once catchy, psychedelic, filmic and disturbed, Sion Orgon's work has a very distinctive feel to it that only arrives from a craftsman firmly locked on to his own path. 'Dust' is the very latest collection of work, comprising six new tracks featuring Thighpaulsandra (Coil, Spiritualised, Julian Cope) on half of them and a number of other guests, including Claudio Gian, Lara Ward and Richard Johnson (Splintered, Theme). Somewhere amongst the many convoluted folds of often weird 'n' wonderful sounds are texts spoken by a number of random Finnish and Latvian people, further enhancing the multi-dimensional stealth attack of any one of the songs presented here. Like, again, his regular collaborator Thighpaulsandra's work, Sion's is enmeshed in rich layers and tangents so disparate they'd never make sense in anybody else's hands, and despite the countless such claims put forward by those essentially creating music permanently stuck in first gear this truly is aimed at those who demand far more from their listening experience. Limited to 300.

https://sionorgon.bandcamp.com/album/dust

"Welsh man Sion Orgon was always somewhere on the wider boarder of my radar due his regular involvement with Thighpaulsandra and also occasionality with Peter Christopherson of Coil. Supporting his artist career as Sound Designer, Studio Technician and Music Producer for Film, Theatre and Animation this is actually his 5th solo album.
"Dust" was first published as limited Vinyl LP (300 copies only) via Lumberton Trading Co. last Autumn and is now also available as CD with identical tracklisting.
Honestly I didn't expect him to be such an stylistic versatile musician - within these 6 tracks he moves seamlessly from noisy indie rock, abstract ambient to and back, with a grand finale of heartfelt and moving psychedelic rock.
Starting with "Spat Out Of Dust", co-written and featuring Richard Johnson of Splintered he immediately catches your attention with a relentless beat and guitar pushing forward the cynic vocals until it fades organically into an open structure. After this track which reminds me positively of current Ministry "Ornament Centipode" is a dramatic soundtrack-ish piece, musique concrete with an experimental and psychedelic edge. Besides it's also one of the three tracks featuring Thighpaulsandra on modular synthesizers.
Followed by "Head Bomb" the setted mood continues at first but steadily gains intensity until a psychotic rage can be imagined which is lived out to the fullest. Supported only by Claudio Gian on Bass and Chey Davis on Percussion & field recordings Sion Orgon leaves no nerves untouched here.
'Who Do You Think You Are?' (co-written by Thighpaulsandra) gets back into indie-rock post punk mood with dramatic interferences, a switch suddenly into melodic progressive metal excursions and backwards into field recordings filled post punk deserts.
"Disintegration" is the straightest alternative rock song imaginable here, paired with a hip-hop beat and surprising merciless vocals. This one leaves me puzzled, an outburst of energy to be resolved only through the final epic "The Mouth That Has No Face" which is an astonishing homage to early psychedelic rock, light-hearted, playful and even with a catchy melodic refrain before it slowly fades into field recordings which leave you at peace with the world.

While this release basically lasts only 6 tracks in barely 40 Minutes it really kicks ass, ashes and dust at once." [CHAIN D.L.K.]