condition (cassete/cover): NM / NM 

One of the rarer objects in the Ora discography. Ora was the drone collective Darren Tate and Andrew Chalk had set up around 1993, with regular participation from Colin Potter at his IC Studios and occasional contributions from Jonathan Coleclough, Daisuke Suzuki, MNortham, and the free-jazz saxophonist Lol Coxhill. Orange Tales, issued on cassette in 1994 in a handful of copies, is the first substantial meeting between Ora's extended drone architecture and Coxhill's soprano.

Coxhill, by then in his late fifties and a veteran of British free improvisation since the mid-Sixties, contributed what Ora needed: a single conversational voice that could hover over the bed of bowed metals, electronics, and field recordings rather than interrupt it. The drone stretches, the saxophone speaks, occasionally the drone answers. The method later codified across Ora's two retrospective CDs (Final, 2002, and After Rainfall) was first articulated here.

Tate's Gnome Records imprint has since reissued the material in small CDr editions of forty copies, hand-assembled with postcards. An originally cassette-only object, now a collector's reference for the Ora/Coxhill lineage that continued through several subsequent releases until the saxophonist's death in 2012.