Travis "Orbinator" Orbin records drums for Cyclamen songs, video footage available

Hayato Imanishi of Noiseware has recruited Travis Orbin, AKA "The Orbinator", to record some drums for the tracks off the Dreamers EP. Travis Orbin left Noiseware in February this year, to join Sky Eats Airplane.

Because Cyclamen are based in the UK, and Travis lives in the US, all communications concerning the recording had to happen through email. About this, Travis remarks: "I had less than two weeks to 'Orbinate' Hayato's programmed drums and rehearse so tracking would go as smoothly as possible. We corresponded through e-mail to ensure that my parts were congruent with his vision; Hayato pays as much mind to nuances as me, it seems!"

At the moment it is unclear whether the same songs (with the newly recorded drums) will be appearing on the split with Haunted Shores they are planning to release in January 2010 (read the article here), or whether this will contain new songs. In an earlier announcement, it was suggested that Cyclamen's drummer, Duncan Lee, was going to be replaced by a certain "Boris" for the split recordings, because he cannot make it to the studio.

Three videos of the recordings have been uploaded to Youtube. Full drum set transcriptions are also available. More information about the individual songs can be found in the descriptions of the videos. Check out the links below to watch them:

Part 1 - Never Ending Dream - transcription
Part 2 - Djent! Djent! - transcription
Part 3 - Forgotten Sky - transcription

Read the announcement on Myspace