Winter is approaching whether we like it or not. Sunshine becomes a sought after commodity and we tend to curl up on our couches and hoping it will all soon be over (or that Game of Thrones finally returns).
Dedicated to originality, L’Orange imbues his smoky, soul-soaked tracks with lush texture through inventive mixing and psychedelic cuts from classic radio recordings. A shopworn MPC and vintage vinyl are essentially paintbrush and palette for L’Orange. He finds his signature samples from pre-1950s jazz, soul and radio. He stitches together a sound that acknowledges his penchant for classic film noir and shadowy motifs. L’Orange albums are often cinematic and narrative in structure, exemplifying the artist’s highly conceptual creative process.
The Mad Writer is the result of a highly creative hip hop producer with gloomy trends that have a dominant love of film noir and jazz from 1920-1950. Imagine a hiphop version of that. With a wealth of bits and pieces of movie dialogue and samples, which could easily have come from film noir, L’Orange has created his own little musical film noir. All the right components are present: The overall gloomy mood; the self-destructive protagonist who, quite classic, is a writer on the road to ruination; the seductive femme fatale and then the melodramatic atmosphere leaning against the unpleasant.
I won’t go further into detail with this album, since this blogpost was just a impulsive thought provoked by the grey sky and sudden drop in temperature.
I hope you will enjoy it as much as I and as alway, you can listen to the album below. And if you enjoy this album you will definitely also enjoy his latest work The Orchid Days.
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Delirious Obsessions 