Hidden Orchestra – To Dream is to Forget (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Hidden Orchestra – To Dream is to Forget (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 46:02 minutes | 526 MB | Genre: Nu Jazz, Future Jazz, Electronic, Downtempo
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Lone Figures

Since its inception, producer and composer Joe Acheson has carefully developed Hidden Orchestra from a simple initial project concept of ‘an imagined orchestra’ into something that has flourished into a widespan musical universe of its own, that is truly unlike anything else.

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Hidden Orchestra – Archipelago (Source Materials) (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Hidden Orchestra – Archipelago (Source Materials) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 40:05 minutes | 438 MB | Genre: Electronic, Jazz, Modern Classical, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Tru Thoughts

‘Archipelago: Source Materials’ celebrates the ten-year anniversary of the release of the experimental and highly praised ‘Archipelago’ LP by peeling back the curtain, highlighting its origins and how it was made. “I want to celebrate some of the performances that are under the surface of the original album, letting the instrumental compositions breathe”, Hidden Orchestra’s musical mastermind Joe Acheson explains.

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Cerys Matthews, Hidden Orchestra – We Come from the Sun (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Cerys Matthews, Hidden Orchestra – We Come from the Sun (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 34:02 minutes | 367 MB | Genre: Folk, World, Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca (UMO) (Classics)

We Come From The Sun is composed by Cerys Matthews with Hidden Orchestra and features 10 UK poets: MA.MOYO, Raymond Antrobus, Lemn Sissay, Liz Berry, Anthony Anaxagorou, Adam Horovitz, Cia Mangat, Imtiaz Dharker, Kim Moore and Kayo Chingonyi.

“We are living in extraordinary times, I wanted to respond but had the urge to offer more than one voice, more than one perspective. Not an echo chamber” – Cerys Matthews.

In February 2020 Abbey Road studios welcomed each of the 10 poets to record pieces from their collections. Then lock down hit…. But remotely and with the additional help of field recordists and musicians around the world, Cerys and Joe Acheson (Hidden Orchestra) created a sound journey for these poems with the theme of: Genesis; Birth, heritage, a journey about to begin.

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