Time On A String

by Ortolan

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1.	Once 03:53	buy track
2.	Sticky Situation 02:38	buy track
3.	Be So Bold 03:26	buy track
4.	Just Like Me 02:37	buy track
5.	Opposites 03:18	buy track
6.	Insist For More 02:41	buy track
7.	Changes 03:37	buy track
8.	Sleep, Sleep, Sleep 04:14	buy track
9.	Gaze 03:03	buy track
10.	Mirror Image 03:42	buy track
11.	Ludwig 03:37	buy track
12.	Anything 02:56	buy track

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“Luxuriating within the lustrous musical harbor of the Ortolan sisterhood is the great strength of Stephanie Cottingham's lyrics. She talks of space and place, street corners, trees, and “sitting here reading this all on the ground.” We are able to explore these rooms with her, dream alongside her, join her in the desire to “Be So Bold” and “wish I could live?to the fullest”. We know with her that “I was meant for something more”. We face “Sticky Situations” in the midst of which we struggle to “make things better” and believe the best about people and ourselves. Daniel Smith's fine production has framed all this in such a way that there is little to hinder our entrance.

Music like this is rare. It addresses us kindly, directly, without pretense or irony. It is not cool or hip or self-contained. It is unabashedly vulnerable, open to encounter. It's not often anymore that you hear the music of young people. Not just young people, but anyone who is still engaged in becoming who they are. Ortolan includes us in the family, encouraging us to grow along with them. As we walk from room to room, past painting after painting, here is something that invites us to pause, enter in, and to become a kindred participant in its quest.”

-Dan Zimmerman, 2009

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released April 9, 2010

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Ortolan Delran, New Jersey

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down deep

Jul 2018
Blue River

Nov 2014
Covered In Black

Apr 2014
Time On A String

Apr 2010
Ortolan EP

Jul 2009

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