Artist description The albums: 'An Occurrence Remembered' which is heavily based on Ambrose Bierce's Civil War short stories. Richards premiered this music in a live modern dance performance of the same name. Choreographer Nicole Cavaliere worked to create the visual elements of Richards new music. 'An Occurrence Remembered' took place at The Washington Square United Methodist Church at 135 West 4th St. New York City on November 9th and 17th................................ENKI, is based around the ideas of Zecharia Sitchin, who has spent much of his lifetime uncovering the secrets of our human existance. The lyrics tell a story of love, compassion and that of greed, domination, governing and what truely rules over us. The music creates an ensemble of Ancient Asian instrumentation freely floating over jungle percussion and electronic synthesizers. The modern dance performance choreographed by Michael Medcalf took place at the Cleveland Public Theater on April 8th,2000. For more detailed information visit www.lorinrichards.com

Music Style Dark Electronic-Acoustic Storytelling

Musical Influences Everything from Cocteau Twins and Hank Williams to David Bowie and Underworld

Similar Artists In a past review I have been compared to Wolfsheim

Artist History Lorin Richards latest covers put out by Underground Inc./Invisible Records are Alice Cooper's 'I'm Eighteen' on 'Mutations', and Hank Williams 'Thy Burdens are greater than mine' on the upcoming 'Dying to be Famous'. Richards completes a follow-up to 'ENKI' entitled 'An Occurrence Remembered' a modern dance musical based on the Civil War Stories of Ambrose Bierce. 'An Occurrence Remembered' premiered on the stage Nov.9th and 17th in NYC. Two tracks from this album have been released on Invisible Records 'Notes from thee Real Underground Vol.1' the albums' full release is currently pending a distributor........................April 8th of 2000, Lorin Richards took 'ENKI' to the stage in a visual arts and theatrical rendition of his album with the help of guest artists Cleveland Contemporary Dance theatre. Shouting Mountain opened the show. In Late August of 1999, Lorin Richards released a solo project entitled 'ENKI'. The album is based around the ideas of Zecharia Sitchin, who has spent much of his lifetime uncovering the secrets of our human existance. The lyrics tell a story of love, compassion, greed, domination, governing, and what truely rules over us. The music creates an ensemble of Ancient Asian instrumentation freely floating over jungle percussion and electronic synthesizers. In this, The two worlds become one.

Group Members Lorin Richards

Instruments Electronics, Acoustic(on newer tracks) ,Voice

Albums 'ENKI', 'An Occurrence Remembered'

Press Reviews "The new millennium. The world hasn't changed a bit. The current state of electronic music has changed a whole lot recently. EBMish, synth-pop groups like VNV Nation and Covenant have pushed aside such former heavyweights as :Wumpscut:. Power noise made a small comeback with new releases by Noisex, Dive, and the resent releases by a relatively unknown record label named Hands. The only problem is that most of these small trends have been done before. That's why Lorin Richard's first solo release, Enki, is such a breath of fresh air. If his name is familiar, it's because Lorin is making quite a name for himself here in the U.S. The Cleveland natives first published effort was with a band by the name of Graven Image. Lorin did some production and programming on their album, Black Lung Cathedral. BLC, a twisted conglomeration of industrial mayhem meets gothic sensibilities, helped remind the U.S. that Cleveland is a town to be reckoned with in the underground music scene. Enter Enki. Enki is a theme, a beautiful collection of stories based on a sci-fi interpretation of ancient Sumerian religion. Imagine the beginning of the world not as an evolution over millions of years, or a creation that lasted six days, but a creation by beings of another planet. Beings seen in the eyes of early civilization as gods. A race so advanced that they had robots guard such fantastic places like the Garden of Eden. This is the idea behind Enki. The music on this album is good. Lorin has really laid down some ear candy for anyone who enjoys songwriting and structure. Enki moves from many musical themes, dabbling with Asian rhythms and instrument sound to competent workings with industrial ambience. The music is very reminiscent of a Tangerine Dream soundtrack piece coupled with just about any early 90's pop song. Lorin's own crooning voice is strikingly familiar to Wolfgang Thums (check out Cleen's Second Path to see what I mean). Overall, Enki is a very peaceful and pleasant work. The production is absolutely top notch..." MirageTropics V2 2000

Location Los Angeles, CA - USA

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