Peter Orins - Dead Dead Gang (2023) Hi Res

Dead Dead Gang came from the desire of drummer Peter Orins to write a piece inspired by Alan Moore’s 2016 novel Jerusalem.

A true world-story, disproportionate and monumental in size and time, this book is an experiment in itself: of the geographical space (we focus on a city, a specific place, examined from all points of view – macro and micro), of the temporal dimension (we go through more than 2000 years of history that are superimposed and entangled), and finally of this space-time relationship that ends up transforming the city into the sum of all the cities it has been since its foundation, and that does not forget all the human stories that compose it.

The name of the project comes from the gang of ghost children that we follow in the novel, a group that crosses the layers of time of the city.
A literal transcription of the work into music is obviously not possible, nor even desirable. However, the book itself is rich in sound universes and in diversity of languages and poetic influences, and the presence of superimposed times, images and ghostly presences never ceased to fascinate the drummer, who thus imagined a musical construction where texts, playing instructions and temporal and geographical superimpositions directly from the novel are mixed.

Open writing, inspired by minimalism but also by the numerous sacred or popular musical references of the book, where melodic writing, textual basis of various instructions, harmony and rhythm are mixed, the whole with a great freedom of interpretation highlighted by the personalities of each musician. The music, ethereal and stretched, cultivates the sound and formal ambiguity: songs, noises, strange and ghostly harmonies, dissolution or exacerbation of rhythm and silence, slowness and obsession.