Organik is the third album by Robert Miles

Robert Miles

Robert Miles is an Italian record producer, composer, musician and DJ in electronica and alternative music.-Biography:...

, released in 2001. The first he independently recorded and produced after quitting his record company, it marked a complete departure from the style of his first two albums.

Overview

Organik was composed and arranged during the summer of 1999 at Can Maresa in Ibiza

Ibiza

Ibiza or Eivissa is a Spanish island in the Mediterranean Sea 79 km off the coast of the city of Valencia in Spain. It is the third largest of the Balearic Islands, an autonomous community of Spain. With Formentera, it is one of the two Pine Islands or Pityuses. Its largest cities are Ibiza...

, then recorded and mixed across seventeen months from 2000 to 2001 at Muchmoremusic Studios in London. Self-released on Salt Records, it is also available from Narada, Shakti Records (U.S.), and DBX Records.

The title "TSBOL" stands for "That Small Bubble Of Life" http://web.archive.org/web/20050309190808/http://dreamland.h11.ru/faq.shtml#6. It is derived from the sample used in the track intro: " Time to work. Time to relax. Time to reflect... Look down. Look down. That fragile bubble of life float on a sea of nothing: [Spaceship Earth.] ".

The title "Pour Te Parler" is French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 for "[For] To Talk to You".

Track listing

1. "TSBOL" – 3:44
2. "Separation" – 4:32
3. "Paths" – 4:00
4. "Wrong" – 5:26
5. "It's All Coming Back" – 4:10
6. "Pour te Parler" – 4:21
7. "Trance Shapes" – 3:55
8. "Connections" – 4:57
9. "Release Me" – 7:48
10. "Improvisations Part 1" – 7:06
11. "Improvisations Part 2" – 5:53
12. "Endless" – 8:00

Personnel

All tracks written by Robert Miles

Robert Miles

Robert Miles is an Italian record producer, composer, musician and DJ in electronica and alternative music.-Biography:...

 (born Roberto Concina), except track 3 written by Robert Miles and Smoke City

Smoke City

Smoke City were an English band, who blended acid jazz and trip hop, borrowing from Brazilian styles such as samba and bossa nova. They are best known for their single "Underwater Love", which was a major hit in 1997, after being used in a Levi's television advertisement, "Mermaids" .In 1997, the...

 (Nina Miranda, Marc Brown, Chris Franck).

Musical

• Robert Miles
  Robert Miles
  Robert Miles is an Italian record producer, composer, musician and DJ in electronica and alternative music.-Biography:...
  
   - keyboards (on 1-12)
• Paul Falloon - bass guitar (on 1-2, 4-8)
• Nitin Sawhney
  Nitin Sawhney
  Nitin Sawhney is an Indian-British musician, producer and composer. His critically acclaimed work combines Asian and other worldwide influences with elements of jazz and electronica and often explores themes such as multiculturalism, politics and spirituality...
  
   - electric guitar (on 4, 7), nylon guitar (on 6)
• Bill Laswell
  Bill Laswell
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   - fretless bass
  Fretless guitar
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   (on 9-11)
• Gianni Trevisan - electric guitar (on 2)
• Taylor Made - acoustic bass (on 3, 9)
• Trilok Gurtu - drums and percussion & tabla
  Tabla
  The tabla is a popular Indian percussion instrument used in Hindustani classical music and in popular and devotional music of the Indian subcontinent. The instrument consists of a pair of hand drums of contrasting sizes and timbres...
  
   (on 9-11)
• Marque Gilmore - drums (on 1, 4, 6-7)
• Nina Miranda
  Nina Miranda
  Nina Miranda is both a singer and songwriter who was part of the English group, Smoke City, and more recently, Shrift.Nina Miranda's father is Brazilian, her mother is English and she was born in Brazil, and educated in Brazil, England and France...
  
   - vocals (on 3)
• Dhruba Ghosh - sarangi
  Sarangi
  The Sārangī is a bowed, short-necked string instrument of India which is originated from Rajasthani folk instruments. It plays an important role in India's Hindustani classical music tradition...
  
   (on 3, 9, 12)
• The London Session Orchestra - 20-piece strings (on 1, 4, 6)

Technical

• Robert Miles - arranger, programming, engineer, producer
• Nick Ingman - string arrangements (on 1, 4, 6)
• Toni Economides - additional production, engineer
• Michael Fossenkemper - mastering

Samples

• On 1, public domain sample from "Scenes of Earth and life on Earth" in One Small Step, by R. Lynn Bondurant, NASA, 1970.
• On 3, extract and lyrics from "Many Paths" by Smoke City
  Smoke City
  Smoke City were an English band, who blended acid jazz and trip hop, borrowing from Brazilian styles such as samba and bossa nova. They are best known for their single "Underwater Love", which was a major hit in 1997, after being used in a Levi's television advertisement, "Mermaids" .In 1997, the...
  
  .
• On 5, samples recorded in Mnemba Island, Tanzania, January 1998.
• On 11, extracts from "Nagual Session" by Pianeta Terra (G. peres, G. Trevisan, A. Marchesan), July 1999.
• On 12, samples recorded in Can Maresa, Ibiza, summer 1999.

External links

• Profile of Organik at Robert-Miles.com