Kris Orlowski & the Passenger String Quartet
Coming to Bellevue College on Tuesday, April 10th 11:30-12:30 in the cafeteria for Earth Week: Kris Orlowski & the Passenger String Quartet
Bellevue College’s 13th annual Earth Week celebration is coming this Spring from April 16-20th with a full schedule.
For a kick off to this huge celebration, the Student Environmental Sustainability Fund (SESF) and the Associated Student Government (ASG) helped fund to bring local band, Kris Orlwoski and The Passenger String Quartet to play on campus.
As many of us who listen to the radio, it has been flooded with music that have little to no lyrics about being sustainable or living conscientiously, treading throughout life with care and compassion. Instead, modern music promotes sex, drugs, violence, and many others that clouds the mind. Living in a digital world has pulled many of us farther away from nature, disconnecting us for what holds and feeds us in the first place – it’s what I call nature deficit disorder. Kris Orlowski changes this as his music is filled with artistically beautiful music and positive lyrics to fill ones brain with a rush of serotonin, dopamine, and the entire body with oxytocin. His music can surge through ones tendons and synapses and neurons to map onto the world. It injects into ones bone marrows, crushing all emptiness to create a moving force like undulating waves. Because there is nothing more beautiful than how the waves never refuses to stop kissing the shoreline and always comes back for more no matter how many times it’s sent away. Please welcome… Kris Orlowski and the Passenger String Quartet.
Website Link: www.krisorlowski.com
Full bio: This story started with a shared obsession of strings and camaraderie they couldn’t ignore.
After years of touring with other projects and talking about collaborating, Songwriter Kris Orlowski and Composer Andrew Joslyn (Macklemore/Handful of Luvin) met to add string arrangements to Kris’s songs for one epic, storied show. Post epic show, they were showered with gratitude and requests for the recordings. After some discernment, Kris Orlowski and the Passenger Quartet chose five songs to record live at the Fremont Abbey. After recording the five songs and releasing them, they played some notable events over the summer including the City of Seattle’s summer concert series and Bumbershoot the band has being playing big events and concerts around the northwest.
What makes the sound more unique is that it’s a marriage of a classic tradition of music (classical/baroque/romantic string quartet arranging) with new-folk/rock. The two coincide with each other beautifully during their live, creating a nice mesh of orchestral new-folk songs. The sound heightens the sense of love, being lost, change and moving on that Kris sings about in these emotional songs.
So take a moment. Breathe in the silence and then really listen to these songs. Then let the music be your guide, “All the change, you write the chapter, it’s your move.”
Last Updated November 19, 2013