Joe Acheson improvises live remixes of his Hidden Orchestra material, alongside versions of tracks by Floex, Piano Interrupted, Macmaster/Hay, Long Arm, and Clarinet Factory - from the recent 'Reorchestrations' album, which is made up of reworkings of classical, folk and experimental musicians.
All accompanied by one of the Hidden Orchestra drummers, Jamie Graham, whose drums and percussion Joe is also sampling, looping, and effecting live on stage.
The tracks are woven into a single continuous mixtape performance, with looped percussion solos, field recordings and spoken word extracts.

Hidden Orchestra will be doing a full band live-AV tour in Europe and India in November/December 2015.
www.hiddenorchestra.com/dates

photo: Markus Werner

Tracklisting:
00.09 Saturnin Fire and The Restless Ocean (Hidden Orchestra Remix) - Floex
05.22 Cross Hands (Hidden Orchestra remix) - Piano Interrupted
11.37 Tired & Awake - Hidden Orchestra
17.46 Spoken - Hidden Orchestra
25.14 Seven Hunters - Hidden Orchestra
31.51 Reminder - Hidden Orchestra
37.59 Thograinn Thograinn (Hidden Orchestra remix) - Macmaster/Hay
44.13 Strange - Hidden Orchestra
48.08 Sleep Key (Hidden Orchestra remix) - Long Arm
50.28 5 Steps (Hidden Orchestra remix) - Clarinet Factory
56.16 Flight - Hidden Orchestra

'Reorchestrations' Live Mixtape, Berlin June 2015

Cover of Steve Earle's My Old Friend the Blues

My Old Friend the Blues

Cover of The Swingers song Counting the Beat - a kiwi classic

Counting The Beat

cover of The White Stripes song 7 Nation Army

7 Nation Army

This track is from the album Dance Between Raindrops and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/reneestefanie
With:
Haftor Medboe - guitar
Bryden Stillie - drums
Andy Mitchell - bass
Martin Kershaw - alto sax
Shahab Mobasher - engineer
Garry Boyle - final mix and master.

Between Raindrops

I'm based in Edinburgh [Scotland] where I've been singing jazz for a while but I've recently taken to writing my own songs. There's no attempt at genre but at a push I would say it's got a jazz influence in the types of chords and structure I use and the fact that I can't resist a scat solo now and then. I have a thing for thinly disguised metaphor in the lyric and I like writing bass lines, although I don't play bass. It is what it is, I enjoy making it and if you happen to like listening to it all to the good. If not, hey, nobody got hurt.

Between Raindrops

Renee Stefanie

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