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Fake Orchestra: Made In China

by Chris May
August 12, 2009

If you pulled out a map of the western hemisphere, and drew lines tracing the cross-cultural pathways that compose Slovenian band Fake Orchestra's music, the map would end up resembling something an inky spider had been traversing. Its European and Americas areas, in particular, would resemble a complex diagram of highways, arterial routes and secondary roads. Like the British band Orqestra Mahatma, whose Stay Cool (Babel, 2005) inhabits similarly wide ranging cultural territory, Fake Orchestra has an admirable disregard for ...