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ORANUR III

Schloss Tegal

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4.44 | 6 ratings | 1 reviews | 40% 5 stars

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Studio Album, released in 1994

Songs / Tracks Listing

1. Oranur III (8:04)
2. Dark Eyes (4:30)
3. L5 (5:40)
4. Coital Affirmation (5:02)
5. DOR Manifestations (5:07)
6. Beyond The Wall of Sleep (6:36)
7. Orop Desert EA 1954-1955 (9:02)
8. We Just Got Tired (7:35)
9. You Can't Wake Up (1:04)

Total time 52:40


Tracks on 2012 CD Oranur III "The Third And Final Report":
1. Oranur III ?The Third And Final Report? (10:57)
2. Dark Eyes (4:23)
3. L5 ? H.O.M.E.S. (5:20)
4. Coital Affirmation (5:09)
5. D.O.R. Manifestations (5:00)
6. Beyond The Wall Of Sleep (4:50)
7. Orop Desert EAS 1954-1955 (8:21)
8*. Orena ?Orop Terria? (8:25)
9*. The Core Men (7:59)
10. We Just Got Tired ?The Emotional Plague? (8:04)
11. You Can?t Wake Up (0:52)

Total time 69:20

* - bonus tracks

Line-up / Musicians

- Richard Schneider / electronics (Computer Coercion, E.A. Resonator)
- Mark Burch / electronics (Oerlikon Cannons, C.O.R.E. Field Generator)

Releases information

CD Tegal Records (1995, UK, Europe & US)
LP Artware Production ARTWARE 17 (1995, Germany, different artwork)

CD-R Tegal Records TEGAL 011 (2006, US)

CD Cold Spring CSR174CD (2012, UK, entitled Oranur III "The Third And Final Report", remastered, different tracks' length, with 2 bonus tracks, different artwork)

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SCHLOSS TEGAL Oranur III ratings distribution


4.44
(6 ratings)
Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music(40%)
40%
Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection(0%)
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Good, but non-essential (0%)
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Collectors/fans only (20%)
20%
Poor. Only for completionists (40%)
40%

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Review by Dobermensch
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5 stars 'Oranur III' is the creepiest album I own. Even more so than 'Current 93's' "Nature Unveiled". Turned up loud, it sounds like zombies clawing out of graveyards. Almost purely electronic at source it's a swirling, throbbing and groaning recording that is unlike any other I've heard.

]Oranur III' is based on the theories of Wilhelm Reich with his outsider beliefs in 'Orgone' technology, UFO's and 'Cloudbusting' machines. This deep droning menace of an album sounds like all of the aforementioned condensed into a 40 minute prototype exercise in terror.

Comparisons could be made with bands such as 'Throbbing Gristle', 'Kluster' and 'Lustmord'. However, there's something deeply unsettling and undeniably disturbing about this particular recording. It's unrelenting in its oppressiveness.

The opener 'Oranur III' has a very eerie metallic drone which becomes very intense through waves of slowly pulsing keyboards. You can just imagine the creature from John Carpenter's 'The thing' slowly creeping up behind your back as you fiddle about with a torch unable to figure out if the batteries are working.

'Scary Bejeesus' is the only way to describe 'Dark Eyes'. A sliding, slushy drone of weird chords is played under effected spoken vocals which recite alien abduction encounters. In itself this should be laughable, but this and the following track '"L5' paint a very spooky and real death-like scenario. Gruesome sludgy, whining keyboards grate and grind creating in a swirling death effect leaving the listener very unnerved.

The HP Lovecraft inspired 'Beyond the Wall of Sleep' evolves into a more ethereal sound, like an old Victorian haunted mansion. If you listen carefully enough you can almost hear voices from past millennia in the distorted keyboard chords.

'You Just Got Tired' has more alien abduction female screams going on but is delivered with a swirling, electronic semblance of a tune, which runs through my mind for hours after completion. Beautiful... but ugly.

This is probably my most listened to album of all time since purchasing it in '95. 'Oranur III' is only suited to listeners of the more extreme end of prog. It is without a drum, guitar, bass, or tuneful vocal.

On the whole, this will be abject torture to most prog listeners. For me it's a thing of beauty that has not been matched in it's genre since it's release..

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