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<\/p>\nLast week we kicked off our GiantDesk concert series, which is basically just like the NPR Tiny Desk thing except the band plays around a table that would either crush NPR\u2019s or pull it into it\u2019s orbit, depending on the giant desk\u2019s mood.<\/p>\n
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Speaking of orbits, we had the pleasure to bear aural witness to some in-the-flesh music of the spheres courtesy of the inimitably legitimate The Orion Experience. A band headed by Orion Simpriani and Linda Horwatt, a pair thoroughly at ease with each other in performance owing to their many years writing together, their songs are brimming with love and euphoria and giddiness and occasionally some longing. But like a healthy sort of longing.<\/p>\n
During my interview, which was broadcast on Google Hangout as well as reality, I was able to extract some fascinating trivia about the band, like the fact that Orion kind of likes Katy Perry\u2019s \u201cRoar,\u201d the band is absolutely resolved to play in the UK at some point and that Linda has a seal hat that\u2019s sewn together with seal tendons which people routinely offer to buy off of her, including myself. (Turns out the hat is Eskimo-made and kinda priceless).<\/p>\n
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It has been observed that Orion\u2019s songs, on a scale of 1 to Catchy, are an 11. Which doesn\u2019t make any sense, but illustrates how the songs are chart-transcending in quantitative and qualitative terms. Both Google Hangout and real life hangout went wild at the first chords of \u201cObsessed with You,\u201d though the real Cronut-type treat was Nippon Ga Dai Suki<\/em> or \u201cJapan We Love You!,\u201d a rarely performed gem that, together with the strawberry Kit Kats<\/a> provided, transported listeners to the magical far off land honored in the song.<\/p>\n
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