ORKESTRA DEL SOL's MOVEABLE FEAST out TODAY

Ladies and Gentlemen,
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Wondering who put that pie on your skateboard? Has your dessert trolley been swapped for a wheelbarrow? Who loaded your fish suppers into a sidecar and drove them off? Where is your MOVEABLE FEAST??

Ok, ok - enough of this. It's us.... ORKESTRA DEL SOL! But we had such a good reason for playing such ridiculous food related practical jokes because. . . .

...we are RELEASING OUR BRAND NEW ALBUM - THE MOVEABLE FEAST all over the planet….. TODAY! Order for it! Download it! Pay us, your pals, for it! - However YOU WANT IT, YOU CAN HAVE IT!

Too busy to listen to the whole album in one go? Then you can buy it ONE TRACK AT A TIME from the marvelous ORKESTRA DEL SOL WEBSITE! Enjoy each moment of expectation as you wait for the track to download, as you would cooking an egg in your new microwave or waiting for toast to pop up. These are one of the many joyous experiences you may encounter trying to listen to the music of the ORKESTRA.

Also we have in finished our CHINA HOLIDAY MOVIE which I am sure you have all been waiting to see and you can now have a look at it on Orkestra del Sol TV on Your Tubes or on OUR WEBSITE!

But life cannot be lived only through your headphones and your interwebs. No! You must take yourself along to Edinburgh's QUEENS HALL ON SUNDAY and experience the REALITY THAT IS ORKESTRA DEL SOL! Yes, we will play music that is guaranteed 100% LIVE PERFORMANCE - entering your ears and having a unique effect on the rest of YOUR BODY. You can even buy your very own copy of the album then and there because it is our OFFICIAL CD LAUNCH PARTYJANI!
See you there!


Your friends, ORKESTRA DEL SOL

Download:
http://www.orkestradelsol.co.uk/shop.html

Tickets:
http://www.thequeenshall.net

Video:
http://www.orkestradelsol.co.uk/video.html

New Album: Free Download today!

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Ladies and Gentlemen,

WE The Orkestra have launched many things. Last September, the “Trinity Belle’ was sent on her merry way up the Firth of Forth to the maritime melody of the ‘Marriage Polka’. In February this year the Orkestra was the cultural experience that launched the Chaoyang Spring Carnival in Beijing. In 2005 Sincero Minimo’s ego was officially unveiled with his rendition of Maki Maki at the Galashiels Balkan Music Awards. These have been some of the launches we have ever played.

So, Ladies and Gentlemen, you can understand how your friends in Orkestra Del Sol have felt the burden of responsibility in deciding how to launch our BRAND NEW CD “The Moveable Feast”. How to do you proud, our loyal fans,.. How to really do it for our friends. How to pull it off with you Ladies and Gentlemen.


Set Menu, £10 / £7. Sitting down is an option, but it may prove difficult.

STARTER: the Den Collective. Ladies and Gentlemen, these 8 denizens of Edinburgh Afro Mafia will be lifting your spirits with Afro Beat, Fela Beat, Root Beat, Feet Beat, Beet Root and Beet Beat.

MAIN COURSE: Orkestra Del Sol of course! This main course is for you, our beloved UK Fan Base, it will be a musical spectasticle of laughter, deliria, rapture and surprise as your very own Orkestra Del Sol plays for you a staggering array of new, original and yet-to-be-tested-on-the-general-public brass bombshells from our new CD ‘THE MOVEABLE FEAST’.

DESSERT: buy a copy of the new CD, and take your exuberance to the Caves, for free! Stay up late and be merry alongside the Orkestra, and DJ Mungbean. Meet the Ladies and Gentlemen that you didn’t get to talk to earlier because you were dancing too much. Results!

And finally, head to your home, put the CD in the machine and re-live once again that happy evening until you once again next catch those mavericks of brass and groove….

BUT WAIT! If you cannot wait for yourself to hear these tunes – you can download a FREE track TODAY by going to here on your interwebs

Tell your friends, so that they too can dance to this brand new music whilst washing the dishes or surfing around the world-web!

And for those of you who won’t be at our launch party, we have some special news: You can buy The Moveable Feast in actual SHOPS, on your HIGH STREET, and ONLINE. GO here to our shop to pre-order your copy!

Album Launch Party - Sunday 18 May

The Queens Hall, 85-89 Clerk St, Edinburgh, EH8 9JG
£10 / £7 conc. Doors 7pm, Show starts 8pm
Box Office: 0131 668 2019
www.thequeenshall.net

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Orkestra del Sol Presents....The Moveable Feast!

Ladies and gentlemen - our new album The Moveable Feast will be released on 18th May! Featuring all-original Orkestra del Sol sousaphone-fuelled future-classics (for dancing… and drinking!) it’s going to be the sound of Summer 2008!

Friends! Are you in a hurry to hear it? You can pre-order a copy now by going to our online SHOP page, and we’ll post it to you as soon as it’s released on the 18th of May. What a service!

But wait - are you unsure if you will like it?? Especially for you, our No. 1 fans, you can try before you buy! We will be releasing bass-bustin’, horn-blasting sure-to-be HIT SINGLE Passe Par Tout as a FREE download on this website on Thursday 1st of MAY. Then you can whistle along, when you come down to our…

ALBUM LAUNCH PARTY!

Be there for the triumphant Launch of The Moveable Feast. Get yourself a copy of the album AND see your favourite troubadours of the wind, your dedicated roguish brass mavericks live in action. With new songs and new films! In dolby stereo. On stage and on demand! And at a special party afterwards for special selected friends and guests (those in possession of a ticket to the gig or a five pound note). The details you need:

Sunday 18 May 2008

The Queens Hall, 85-89 Clerk St, EDINBURGH, EH8 9JG.

Doors 7pm
show starts 8pm
With your host and DJ Lenny Love
And support from The Den Collective and

£10 / £7 conc.
Box Office 0131 668 2019
www.thequeenshall.net

Ticket includes free entry to the Official After Party
With DJ Mungbean
Plus delicious refreshments
11pm–3am at The Caves, Niddry Street South, Edinburgh, EH1 1NS
www.thecaves.eu

WE'RE JUST BACK FROM CHINA

Dear friends

The Orkestra has returned from its all too brief visit to the People's Republic with none of our fingers or toes lost to frostbite, although it was a close thing! We had an amasin time and were execellently hosted by our kind hosts: soon you will be able to see some of our exploits for yourself on our China Holiday Video which will be posted up here as soon as it is finished.

Our trip did not pass entirely without incident...Despite a close escape when he nearly drowned in a bowl of noodles, Phil Philadopolis was undetered from his intrepid culinary exploration and sampled some of the local delicacies including frogs scorpions and silkworms. Somewhat confused by the jetlag, Camino suceeded in almost emptying a park of pensioners early one morning when he attempted to join in a ballroom dancing lesson, however he was eventually distracted with the promise of a ride in the nearby fairground. Lorenzo's intermittant catatonia seems to have abated slightly with the exposure to Chinese language and he was to be found late into the night studying ancient chinese texts and muttering monosyllables. And finally, Thomas received at least thirteen marraige proposals from enthusaistic chinese ladies who seemed unduly impressed with the length of his beard!

While we ponder these cultural anomalies we are off to put the finishing touches to our FANTASTIC new second album 'The Moveable Feast' which will be launched in a MUSICAL SPECTASTICLE at the Queens Hall in Edinburgh on May 18th to kick of our second WORLD TOUR OF THE UK, so any of you who missed us in Beijing, we look forward to warming you up over the coming year! Keep an eye on the gigs page for details.

Orkestra del Sol's Transglobal Winter Heriocs!

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Dear friends of the frozen north,
We, the amazing ORKESTRA DEL SOL have played in various climactic conditions......Battling through MONSOON conditions in India! Barely holding on to our hats and beards in a NEAR HURRICANE in Winchester! Running for cover during HAIL STORMS in Falkirk! Sweltering in a SWEDISH SAUNA SIMULATION at the Caves, Hogmanay! (Happy New Year by-the-way) .....but NEVER have we played our polkas, waltzes and danceable sousaphone-fuelled classics in such SUB-ZERO temperatures as at the incredible Highland Lights Torch-lit Procession in Inverness where the temperature was MINUS EIGHT DEGREES!

ICE CREAM! NORWAY! MOTHERS-IN-LAW!........Are all at their best below zero.

SAXOPHONES. FINGERS. TOES.......... Are not.

In fact, they are the most temperaturely challenged of our extremities, especially as SINCERO MINIMO occasionally prefers to play his saxophone with his feet, to impress his friends. After an over-excited punter spilled beer Lorenzo's accordion in Inverness, his fingers became frozen to the keyboard during a solo and he could only play one chord for the rest of the set! (If anyone would like to knit him some fingerless gloves, please could they get in touch.)

But our troubles are not over…!

On the 4th of Febuary The Orkestra are heading off to woo Beijing crowds with their winter olympics as part of the festivities for the CHINESE NEW YEAR where we temperatures are rumoured to be plummeting to MINUS 11 AT NIGHT. Gregovic is currently modifying all of the band’s instruments with central heating so that none of us get frostbite and Capitanji Tomas is hunting round for many extra pairs of red and black long-johns!
What's more none of us speak much Chinese apart from 'Ni Hao', so everything will have to be non-verbal. (It's lucky most of our tunes are, in fact, instrumentals).

On our return we will be putting the finishing touches to our FANTASTIC new second album 'The Moveable Feast' which will be launched in a MUSICAL SPECTASTICLE at the Queens Hall in Edinburgh on May 18th to kick of our second WORLD TOUR OF THE UK, so any of you who can’t join us in Beijing, we look forward to warming you up over the coming year! Keep an eye on the website for details.

Best Wishes

Orkestra del Sol

ORKESTRA DEL SOL WINS 2 FOR 1 TICKET VICTORY for YOU!!

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Ladies and Gentlemen this has truly been one of the summers we have never had. Your favorite TROUBADOURS of the wind instruments, MINSTRELS of their brass, and PANTALOONS on the drum have been risking EVERYTHING to travel to LOW-LYING areas of the country. Next week we will at last be returning NORTH through the HAIL,DRIZZLE and RAIN. Returning to VICTORY at the SPIEGELTENT and other locations over your entire FRINGE festival.

Members of our exclusive mailing list, these will be one of the shows you and your friends will EVER see. Many of you will have IMPORTANT MOMENTS.But read on - it gets BETTER! Only HALF of yourselves need to PAY fortickets on the opening TWO NIGHTS at the Speigeltent. What? Yes! It'sa offer you can't re-use! All you have to say is "THERMOSA" at the Spiegeltent ticket office to claim a historic 2 for 1 ticket price VICTORY over them. Think of the number of different peoples you could bring along with yourself each night! Please remember, there are a maximum of two nights that you can claim this offer on - only Monday 6th and Tues 7th August at 10pm. Our other concerts August 13th,14th and 21st (all at 8pm) are on a strictly 1 for 1 basis or less. Remember, you cannot say this at any other ticket office or on the web or on the phone, or at the Fringe Ticket Office. You have to turn up IN PERSON to say it at the Spiegeltent Box Office.

THE FAMOUS SPIEGELTENT ----- !!! EXTRA DATES !!!6th & 7th Aug at 10pm - 2 for 1 ticket offer – usually £10 13th, 14th & 21st at 8pm GEORGE SQUARE GARDENS www.spiegeltent.net

Those of you with any unusual PHOBIAS of being in tents or temporary structures can come and watch the ORKESTRA inside BUILDINGS. We will be closing the cabaret at Club Vague at the Jam House on the 5th (opening night party) and 12th August, and gracing the wonderfu lVaudeville Cabaret at the BONGO CLUB on 22nd. www.lostvagueness.com www.vaudevillecabaretclub.com

But before all this TOMFOOLERY, you, our special friends of th eOrkestra may enjoy the PLEASURE OF MUSIC in Stockton-on-Tees amongst a range of other artists on WORLD TOURS OF THE UK. 2nd & 3rd August 073.00 & 8.30pm STOCKTON RIVERSIDE FESTIVAL STOCKTON-ON-TEES www.sirf.co.uk Please bring adequate family-sized safety equipments to these events, and consult local tide timetables.

AND FINALLY - many of you fine folks have been snapping at us with your ditigal cameras and videoing us with your ditigal video cameras and generally recording our IMPORTANT MOMENTS. We would like you toknow that we are APPRECIATING your work and please let us know when you put them on the internet, so we can show our friends and families as well.

Many thanks

Orkestra Del Sol

EP LAUNCH at The Caves, Edinburgh, on Thursday May 3rd

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Orkestra Del Sol's WORLDFAMOUSNESS getting OUT OF HAND…

Thank you once again for having enough of yourself to be on the
mailing list of ORKESTRA DEL SOL, your favorite GLOBE-TROTTERING band of itinerant POLTZERS. Now then, you're probably desperate with yourself to see us LIVE again in 2007. But WAIT SOME MORE, details of where you can see us living is at the end of this letter. We have IMPORTANT MOMENTS to share with you first…

The winter was mostly long and dark. SINCERO MINIMO polished his LIBIDO. MARCOZITO gazed hopefully into the bell of his sousaphone hoping that the bun that fell in it during last years Big in Falkirk would appear and give him nourishment. Then, suddenly, the Orkestra was invited to DELHI, where we played against the JAIPUR KAWA BRASS BAND and got about in THREE WHEELED VEHICLES and on RAJASTHANI NATIONAL TV. You can see the result of the match on our web-site.

Returning from the sub-continence, the ORKESTRA realised it had
acquired two NEW BAND MEMBERS. Boy wonder PHIL PHILIDOPOLIS, 12 year son of Stavros and Hope-Philidopolis, of Glaswegan Feta Cheese Import-Export fame had joined the band on 100 mile-an-hour trumpet.

Having accidentally fallen into the sousaphone case looking for a
sweetie, CAMEROON CAMINHO, 19 stone highland teuchter kitten from Gala had joined the band on 240 volt bass drum. They have both contributed in the Orkestra's music sounding much better than it actually is!

Buoyed by the LARGENESS and YOUTHFUL LOOKS of it's new members, the ORKESTRA has gone on to make its second, yes SECOND ever recording, in the style of a large carnival calypso polka band. Rarer than a Welshman in a jacket, these EPs will ONLY be available at our EP LAUNCH at The Caves, Edinburgh, on Thursday May 3rd and only afterwards if you are very nice to certain members of the saxophone section.

Not satisfied with traveling the world and committing ourselves, the ORKESTRA has been in development of a NEW STREET SHOW that will be on YOUR STREETS from May this year, and a number of OTHER ROADS and FIELDS this summer, including MOTORWAYS! It will contain an IMPORTANT MOMENTS for many people, including yourself, regardless of whether or not you are actually at the gig.

See you on your streets!