''Organik'' is the third studio album by

Robert Miles Roberto Concina (3 November 1969 – 9 May 2017), known professionally as Robert Miles, was an Italian record producer, composer, musician and DJ. His 1995 composition "Children (composition), Children" sold more than 5 million copies and topp ...

, released on 11 June 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 but still received overwhelmingly positive reviews.

Overview

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

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, 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". 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: paceship Earth.''".

Track listing

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

Personnel

All tracks written by

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

Smoke City Smoke City was an English band that blended acid jazz and trip hop, borrowing from Brazilian styles such as samba and bossa nova and some lyrics have excerpts in Portuguese. They are best known for their single " Underwater Love", which was ...

(Nina Miranda, Marc Brown, Chris Franck). ; Musical *

– keyboards (on 1-12) * Paul Falloon – bass guitar (on 1-2, 4-8) *

Nitin Sawhney Nitin Sawhney , D.Mus (; born 1964) is a British musician, producer and composer. A recipient of the Ivor Novello Lifetime Achievement award in 2017, among multiple international awards throughout his career. Sawhney's work combines Asian ...

– electric guitar (on 4, 7), nylon guitar (on 6) *

Bill Laswell William Otis Laswell (born February 12, 1955) is an American bass guitarist, record producer, and record label owner. He has been involved in thousands of recordings with many collaborators from all over the world. His music draws from funk, w ...

–

fretless bass A fretless bass is a bass guitar whose neck does not have any frets. While the instrument is played in all styles of music, it is most common in pop, rock, and jazz. It first saw widespread use during the 1970s, although some players used them befo ...

(on 9-11) * Gianni Trevisan – electric guitar (on 2) * Taylor Made – acoustic bass (on 3, 9) *

Trilok Gurtu Trilok Gurtu (born 30 October 1951) is an Indian percussionist and composer whose work has blended the music of India with jazz fusion and world music. He has worked with Terje Rypdal, Gary Moore, John McLaughlin, Jan Garbarek, Joe Zawinul, M ...

– drums and percussion &

tabla A tabla, bn, তবলা, prs, طبلا, gu, તબલા, hi, तबला, kn, ತಬಲಾ, ml, തബല, mr, तबला, ne, तबला, or, ତବଲା, ps, طبله, pa, ਤਬਲਾ, ta, தபலா, te, తబల� ...

(on 9-11) * Marque Gilmore – drums (on 1, 4, 6-7) *

Nina Miranda Nina Miranda is a Brazilian-born English singer and songwriter who was a member of English bands Smoke City, Shrift and Zeep. Life and career Miranda was born in Brasília, Distrito Federal. Her mother is the English Liz Thompson-Miranda; ...

– vocals (on 3) *

Dhruba Ghosh Dhruba Ghosh (1957 - 2017) was an Indian classical musician and Sarangi player from Mumbai. Biography Dhruba Ghosh was born in 1957 in Mumbai. His father Padma Bhushan Pt Nikhil Ghosh was a famous musician, teacher and writer, known his profic ...

–

sarangi The sārangī is a bowed, short-necked string instrument played in traditional music from South Asia – Punjabi folk music, Rajasthani folk music, and Boro folk music (there known as the ''serja'') – in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. It is ...

(on 3, 9, 12) *

The London Session Orchestra The London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) is one of five permanent symphony orchestras based in London. It was founded by the conductors Sir Thomas Beecham and Malcolm Sargent in 1932 as a rival to the existing London Symphony and BBC Symphony ...

– 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

. * 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,

, summer 1999.

References

External links

Profile of ''Organik''
at Robert-Miles.com {{Authority control Robert Miles albums Trip hop albums by Swiss artists 2001 albums Narada Productions albums