As years go by and as the collective embark on different projects, the term “Hidden Orchestra” keeps taking on a multitude of new meanings. Originally a reference to the fact that orchestras playing for silent films in theatres were hidden from view, every band’s releases also commonly “feature a wide variety of guest musicians …
Hidden Orchestra: Archipelago
Traditional jazz drummers are usually only given a few bars to shine, and consequently these short solos are bursting with brilliant ideas and glimpses of pure rhythmic feel. I began to isolate and reprogram fragments of these rhythmic gems […] read the cover notes to Hidden Orchestra’s first record Night Walks (2010) by …