New Material

Orb Gettarr is working on a new album- plenty of new material in the same ground-breaking tradition as Floating Rivers and Enigmatic Realms..

Stay tuned in for further developments, and for sneak previews, go to http://www.opsound.org and put Orb Gettarr into the search engine for full-length downloadable previews.

You can also go to LastFM and listen to Orb on streaming radio.

Have phun, all!!

The Humble Beginning

Orb Gettarr grew up in the midwest and caught the 'music bug' at the age of 17, experimenting with recording techniques as early as high school using two portable cassette tape recorders. (Of course, the technology has improved slightly since then!)

Tetragrammaton Productions Ltd was born as a concept in 1982- Orb Gettarr preferring to record, mix, and produce his own music.

The microlabel was born in 1999 when Orb first obtained computer software to digitally record and also convert the analog recordings made during the 80's with the preceding 4-track recording equipment.

Orb has spent years working on voice programming techniques beginning with the Yamaha DX100 fm synthesizer that appears in most of the legacy 1980's albums now available in the merchandise section here.

Ambient style has been Orb's main influence since his discovery of artists like Brian Eno, Harold Budd, and Holger Czukay, as well as David Sylvian and other artists...

Orb is a guitarist mainly, and also plays mandolin but has also worked at keyboard and synth technique.

In 2003, Orb had a musical epiphany and discovered for himself (as other artist have in their own right) that sound does not necessarily have to follow a pre-conceived format of 'rock ensemble', guitar, bass, keyboard and drums- it could be almost any kind of sound arranged in almost any kind of a format, even what would be considered non-musical by some... That was when 'After The Fall' came out, and then was followed up by 'Universal Core' and the break-out ambient effort in 2004 of 'Enigmatic Realms' and 'A Series of Fortunate Events'..

On the acoustic side, Orb has been influenced by progressive jazz guitarists of the seventies and eighties such as Alex Di Grassi, Michael Hedges, and John McLaughlin, as well as Pat Metheny, Al Di Meola, and Ralph Towner..

2004 was also the year 'Acoustic Resolution' came out, highlighting Orb's progressive acoustic jazz influences on guitar, and was featured on the KRMS 'Homegrown Show', a local radio station in the Ozarks where Orb makes his home..