Orp is an experimental drone ambience ensemble founded in 2017 by Mig O'Rourke (electric cello, muurni khuur) and Horst Prillinger (electric guitar, electric bass, synthesizer, electric piano). The band plays in a distinct style located between drone, ambient, dark ambient and experimental jazz, making extensive use of improvisation.

Pre-orders for our new album have started. You can pre-order the digital album or the compact disc, which will be officially released on May 10th, on our Bandcamp page. Pre-orders will have immediate access to two album tracks and to the rest of the album, plus three bonus tracks on the official release date. CD pre-orders include the digital download.

CDs will be available in a limited edition of 100. We expect to ship them in early May so that you have yours on or before the official release date.

Track titles:

1. "Wail"
2. "Promenade"
3. "The Valley"
4. "Deep End"
5. "Ampère"
6. "Orbos"
7. "Tiny Drops"

The total running time of this album is approx. 46 minutes.

Orp is an experimental drone ambience ensemble founded in 2017 by Mig O'Rourke (electric cello, muurni khuur) and Horst Prillinger (electric guitar, electric bass, synthesizer, electric piano). The band plays in a distinct style located between drone, ambient, dark ambient and experimental jazz, making extensive use of improvisation.

Our new album “Deep End” will be released on all download and streaming sites on May 10th, 2024 and on Audio CD soon afterwards. The album contains seven tracks that were recorded between October 2023 and February 2024. Pre-orders will start in April, an online pre-listening event is planned, as is an album release party with a live concert at a venue in Vienna.

Stay tuned – more details coming soon.

Thanks to our audience for joining us for our concert at the Strenge Kammer at Porgy & Bess. We almost filled the venue, making this our largest crowd so far. We're really chuffed to have been able to share our music with so many people.

Special thanks to Peter Herbert for inviting us and to Marion for the exquisite, highly immersive sound. It was a pleasure to play there.

Everybody who wanted to buy CDs but didn't get any because Horst forgot to bring them, check out our Bandcamp merch page.

Wir freuen uns extrem, dass wir am Montag, dem 04.03.2024 im Rahmen der Reihe "Lost & Found" in der "Strengen Kammer" des renommierten Jazzclubs Porgy & Bess spielen können, in einem Raum, der speziell für "kleine, feine, avancierte, sperrige, avantgardistische, leise, intime, ungewöhnliche, jedenfalls strenge Konzerte" eingerichtet wurde.

Wir beginnen pünktlich um 19 Uhr und werden eine knappe Stunde lang spielen.  Der Eintritt ist "pay as you wish"; Vorverkaufskarten können über die Website des Porgy & Bess zu einem frei wählbaren Preis gekauft werden.

Bitte kommt und nutzt die seltene Gelegenheit, uns an diesem tollen Ort hören zu können.

• Weitere Informationen zum Konzert (Porgy & Bess)

We are delighted to announce that we will play in the "Strict Chamber" of the renowned jazz club Porgy & Bess, a room created specifically for "small, subtle, advanced, not easily accessible, avantgardish, quiet, intimate, unusual, and certainly strict concerts".

We will start at 7pm sharp and will play for slightly less than an hour. The entry fee is "pay as you wish", and advance tickets can be ordered through the Porgy & Bess website for a price of your choosing.

Please come and use the rare opportunity to hear us at this unique venue.

• More information about the concert (Porgy & Bess)

Hi everybody. There are new opportunities to see us live as we're currently planning a bunch of concerts.

So far, the following dates have been confirmed:

• 18 Nov 2023, 20:00, Kulturcafé Henriette, 1200 Wien (with special guest Sara Kowal)
• 19 Jan 2024, 20:00, Kulturcafé Henriette, 1200 Wien
• 10 Feb 2024, private function (by invitation only)
• 04 Mar 2024, 19:00, Porgy & Bess, 1010 Wien
• 15 Mar 2024, 19:00, Café Frame, 1200 Wien cancelled

More to come soon!

If you're sad because you missed our concert at Café Frame on June 3rd, 2023, don't despair, for we've decided to make it available as a digital download through our Bandcamp page. That evening, we played some tracks from our most recent album "OOO" as well as early previews of our next project. The concert is presented pretty much as it was performed, with no overdubs; only a few sections with technical issues had to be edited out.

We regard this as an "official bootleg". Due to the lack of a PA and sound board, we recorded this with a portable recorder that was placed about 6ft away from our amps. It picked up our music in decent stereo, but also contains the occasional audience noise. Please do not expect pristine sound quality.

The recording will be available from June 9th, 2023 until January 8th, 2024 exclusively on Bandcamp.

Track titles:

1. "Takeoff, Layers of Dust > Chimes Immersed in Lava"
2. "Late Evening She Drinks Cocoa and Reads Short Stories by Raymond Carver"
3. "Bird-o-tron"
4. "Frog-a-thon"
5. "Goodnight"
6. "Confluence"

The total running time of this album is approx. 74 minutes.

Orp is an experimental ambient drone ensemble featuring Mig O'Rourke (electric cello, muurni khuur, electric bass) and Horst Prillinger (electric guitar, electric piano, synthesizer, bass guitar). The band plays in a distinct style located between drone, ambient, dark ambient and experimental music, making extensive use of improvisation.

We will play our first post-pandemc concert on Saturday, June 3rd, 2023 at Café Frame in Vienna's 20th district. We will start at around 7pm, play two sets, and be finished by 10pm. Tracks and improvisations will likely be based on our recent album "OOO". There is no ticket pre-sale — simply show up, listen, and donate what you deem adequate, or buy one (or two) of our CDs.

See also the event listings at events.at and falter.at.

We are happy to announce that the limited edition audio CDs of our latest albums "OOO" and "Unless We Sleep" are in stock at the Vienna independent record stores Substance, Rave Up and Mord & Musik.

Support us and support these shops by buying our CDs there or through their mail order service.

Einmal kristalline Studioluft aus Österreich habe ich noch, und zwar von einem Duo namens Orp – O, R, P – die kurz vor Weihnachten ihr bereits sechstes Album herausgebracht haben. Es heißt OOO, also dreimal der Buchstabe O, und es ist eine Platte, die wirklich Zeit braucht, die einen danach aber umso schöner belohnt. Orp sind nämlich ein Ambient-Drone-Experimental-Ensemble, bestehend aus den Musikern Michael O'Rourke und Horst Prillinger, und ihre Musik basiert auf elektrischem Cello, elektrischer Gitarre und Analogsynthesizern, die durch eine ganze Reihe analoger und digitaler Effekte verfremdet werden. Heraus kommen winterlich glitzernde, langsam schwelende Klangmeditationen, Noise-Drone-Ambient-Jazz in Zeitlupe, dessen einzelne Schichten erst nach und nach wegschmelzen. Orp selbst bezeichnen die Tracks ihres Albums OOO gar weniger als Musik denn als akustische Energiepatterns, die einfach die Luft in Bewegung versetzen. Mit dieser Werkseinführung entlasse ich uns alle in die Klangwelt des Tracks "Takeoff, Layers of Dust", der Eröffnungsnummer dieses jüngsten Albums von Orp.

- Katharina Seidler, Radio FM4, Im Sumpf, 22 Jan 2023

Listen to the broadcast until 28 Jan 2023 at https://fm4.orf.at/radio/stories/fm4imsumpf/ (time stamp: 22:49 hrs = last track)

We are happy to announce the official release of our new album "OOO", which will be available on all streaming and download platforms, and as a limited edition of 100 audio CDs.

You can order the CDs through our Bandcamp page, or buy them in Vienna at Substance, Rave Up or Mord & Musik.

Track titles:

1. "Takeoff, Layers of Dust"
2. "Chimes Immersed in Lava"
3. "Early Morning She Drinks Tea and Reads Poetry by Dylan Thomas"
4. "Spinner"
5. "Your Shortwave Radio Station"
6. "Tender Sunset Drone"

The total running time of this album is approx. 48 minutes

Orp is an experimental ambient drone jazz ensemble featuring Mig O'Rourke (electric cello, muurni khuur, electric bass) and Horst Prillinger (electric guitar, electric piano, synthesizer, bass guitar). The band plays in a distinct style located between drone, ambient, dark ambient and experimental jazz, making extensive use of improvisation.

Our new album will be available on audio CD and through all major streaming and download sites on December 2nd, 2022.

The title of this album is spelled OOO, which means it can be pronounced "oh-oh-oh", "oooh", "out of office", "hugs", or "the weird 6th album". Choose whichever suits your personal needs.

The musicians on this album appear to be the same people that made the previous album, but they've been through a pandemic, a world in which politics and the climate are going haywire, and personal loss.

The music on this album is not a conscious reaction to the world in which it was created, but who knows what drives our subconscious when we make music.

We have been told that this album is darker than the previous one, but in truth it's only more abstract. OOO is less music than it is aural energy patterns which move the air around you in ways that allow you to pick up this energy with your ears. If it occasionally sounds like a power plant, it's because that's exactly what it is.

Since we formed Orp, we have been meeting and making music on an almost weekly basis. The six tracks on this album have been selected from 79 tracks that were recorded in 23 sessions between December 2021 and September 2022. They were edited, remixed and mastered in October and November 2022.

CDs will be available in a limited edition of 100 and can be pre-ordered through our Bandcamp page. We expect them to ship in late November/early December.

Track titles:

1. "Takeoff, Layers of Dust"
2. "Chimes Immersed in Lava"
3. "Early Morning She Drinks Tea and Reads Poetry by Dylan Thomas"
4. "Spinner"
5. "Your Shortwave Radio Station"
6. "Tender Sunset Drone"

The total running time of this album is approx. 48 minutes.

Orp is an ambient chamber jazz ensemble featuring Mig O'Rourke (electric cello, muurni khuur, electric bass) and Horst Prillinger (electric guitar, electric piano, synthesizer, bass guitar). The band plays in a distinct style located between drone, ambient, dark ambient and experimental jazz, making extensive use of improvisation.

Our new album will be available on audio CD and through all major streaming and download sites on July 10th, 2020.

Come, see real
flowers
of this painful world.
--Bashō (1644-1694)

"Unless We Sleep..." emerged from a number of recording sessions that took place between July 2019 and May 2020. It was a time of exploration and experimentation, of moving further away from the sound that had characterized our first albums. More stretched out, more meditative, but also more abrasive, these are the soundscapes that have defined the past year for us. Stylistically, the album picks up where "Orp 4" left off: more drone than ambient, these are slow, multi-layered musical textures based entirely on electric guitars and electric cello.

For those of you who love to touch physical objects, we have a very cool-looking CD (limited to 100 copies) in a digipak with photographs by Guatemalan photographer Axel Pimentel, exclusively available on our Bandcamp page. Of course the CD also includes the download for all 7 album tracks. All orders come with our infinite gratitude for supporting our project.

CD orders placed through our Bandcamp page are already shipping now!

Track titles:

1. "Helicopters Flare" [watch video]
2. "Assault Rifle"
3. "Orbiting"
4. "Golden River"
5. "Room 36 (Her Ghost)"
6. "Core Immersion"
7. "And in Our Darkest Hour"

The total running time of this album is approx. 63 minutes.

Orp is an ambient chamber jazz ensemble featuring Mig O'Rourke (electric cello, electric guitar, muurni khuur, theremin) and Horst Prillinger (electric guitar, electric piano, electric sitar, bass guitar). The band plays in a distinct style located between minimal music, drone, and ambient music, making extensive use of improvisation.

We've been busy composing and playing new material, and we're proud to show you one of our newest tracks, which is a taste of the new release we are preparing. Droney, dense, hypnotic and at times also fairly spooky, "Helicopters Flare" is a good example of the sonic territories we've been exploring recently.