Certainly not someone lacking in ambition, Orlando Fitzgerald aka Orquesta wanted to go all-out for his debut live performance. So he built a replica of a forest “from a fictional extrasolar planet” and played nine original songs accompanied by friends in The Grand Social in Dublin.
Those tropical-infused arrangements weren’t only captured impressively by Sean Zissou/David Knox as above but the entire set is available as a nicely mixed and mastered collection (by Brendan Jenkinson) free download as Cycle One: An Exoplanetary Forest.
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005. He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Cara Magazine, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, co-founder of Lumo Club, event curator, Indie Sleaze club promoter, and producer of gigs and monthly listening parties & events in Dublin.
