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ORKESTR is a collaborative music project from Horst aan de Maas, the Netherlands, consisting of five multi-instrumentalists who combine their wide-ranging musical experience with a love for the sounds of the past, to create music that is at once familiar and entirely new.
Their debut album 'I', released in September 2024 on Sound Effect Records, introduced ORKESTR to the world with a synth-driven space rock sound that was met with critical acclaim. The album was presented during two sold-out shows under the name 'GKW-I', a multimedia spectacle at a local gravel pit, where music, film and theater came together in a unique gesamtkunstwerk.
For their next major release, ORKESTR decided not to play it safe, temporarily setting synthesizers and drum machines aside. The result is 'Snowbound', a winter-themed collection of six tracks that showcases the band’s ongoing evolution and experimentation. Inspired by the instrumentation of The Beatles and Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound, and the harmonies of The Beach Boys and Simon & Garfunkel, Snowbound marks a bold departure from their earlier sci-fi-tinged sound.
As part of the Snowbound project, ORKESTR recorded music on the carillon in Sevenum, the hometown of three of the five members. This inspired a mini documentary called 'Van Os Allemaol' about this remarkable instrument, released alongside the EP. All 18 bells were also carefully sampled in the process and made available as a free downloadable MIDI instrument called 'Church Carillon', allowing musicians worldwide to create music with the unique sounds of this carillon.
ORKESTR is driven by the desire to follow their own creative course and to engage in unconventional collaborations, independent of trends or expectations. They chart their own course and remain unapologetically true to themselves.
For their next major release, ORKESTR decided not to play it safe, temporarily setting synthesizers and drum machines aside. The result is 'Snowbound', a winter-themed collection of six tracks that showcases the band’s ongoing evolution and experimentation. Inspired by the instrumentation of The Beatles and Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound, and the harmonies of The Beach Boys and Simon & Garfunkel, Snowbound marks a bold departure from their earlier sci-fi-tinged sound.
As part of the Snowbound project, ORKESTR recorded music on the carillon in Sevenum, the hometown of three of the five members. This inspired a mini documentary called 'Van Os Allemaol' about this remarkable instrument, released alongside the EP. All 18 bells were also carefully sampled in the process and made available as a free downloadable MIDI instrument called 'Church Carillon', allowing musicians worldwide to create music with the unique sounds of this carillon.
ORKESTR is driven by the desire to follow their own creative course and to engage in unconventional collaborations, independent of trends or expectations. They chart their own course and remain unapologetically true to themselves.
ORKESTRLoes BosChristian KeijsersErik MuijsenbergPeter MuijsenbergRuud van den Munckhof
Photos by Mandy Roos
Snowbound is the follow-up to ORKESTR's debut album 𝘐 and features six songs centered around the theme of winter. On Snowbound, ORKESTR attempts to capture the atmosphere of dark days, cold nights, and snow-covered landscapes in music. Songs about the comfort of winter evenings, but also about loneliness and the inexorable passage of time.
Written, arranged, performed, recorded, mixed and mastered by ORKESTR.
Download and use the Church Carillon virtual instrument
'Church Carillon' by Bram Daniëls & ORKESTR is a faithful recreation of the carillon in the small Dutch town of Sevenum. All 18 bells of this remarkable instrument – which have rung from the belltower of the local church since 1980 – were meticulously sampled as part of a multimedia project by ORKESTR that also includes the EP 'Snowbound' and a mini-documentary about the carillon called 'Van Os Allemaol'.
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