Orbital took an old pandemic classic “Ring a Ring o’ Roses” and set it to ultra modern electronic music with “Ringa Ringa (feat. The Mediæval Bæbes)” but with a music video that hearkens back to the era of the bubonic plague of the Fourteenth Century though the song has long been debunked as dating back that far or even to the Great Plague of England in the Seventeenth Century. It is nevertheless a haunting song with a modern resonance, in no small part due to the ghostly vocals of The Mediæval Bæbes, that Orbital and video director Luke Losey and producer Lindsey Bowden and the various collaborators brought to dramatic fruition. With plague doctors and animal-masked attendants, a ritual master and the figure of death the typically playful and luminously melodic music of Orbital is infused with a spooky energy that truly reinforces the haunted undertones Orbital seems to have intended. Watch the video for “Ringa Ringa (feat. The Mediæval Bæbes)” on YouTube and follow Orbital at the links below. The legendary UK duo’s new album Optical Delusion releases on February 17 via London Records.
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