Look At Things - Orion (RDV)

Title: Look At Things

Artist: Orion

Label: Recit de Voyage

Cat Number: RDV06

Genre: Deep House

A1: Windom Earl

A2: Samui

B1: Global Channel

B2; JRB

Recit de Voyage, or RDV Music, is a label curated by French DJ Molly and reaches its sixth release with this polished EP from Orion out of Italy. The tone is understated, moody deep house which swings. ‘Windom Earl’ is a fine example of this: synth swathes rise and fall in sequence as an insistent beat metronomically slices through the sonic fog. Both ‘Samui’ and ‘Global Channel’ operate under similar conditions, with the former feeling slightly more rhythmically confined than the latter, whose bass thumps more expansively. What all three of these tracks have in common, however, is that they all bloom and stretch themselves out when needed. ‘JRB’, in contrast, is a fragile, more or less beatless soundscape cum ambient interlude which evokes clear, starry nights at the height of summer.