The Story

From the mind of Ric Herrington, PROCESSION is a story 50 years in the making. Bringing together some of Scotland’s most talented musicians, sound designers and mixing engineers, the Audiatic Orchestra is a project as vast as nature itself.

Combining narration, music and the sounds of nature, PROCESSION is an immersive story of a young man growing in wisdom, knowledge, and life by means of a journey through the wilds.

Not only is the instrumentation inspired by nature, but sound design has been incorporated into the project. That percussion might be a woodpecker or tap dancing, you never know.

A Dream

Commentary of "THE FOREST"

Review by Amelia Vandergast

RIC HERRINGTON’S AUDIATIC ORCHESTRA LET 50 YEARS OF RHYTHM, FOLKLORE AND FIRE BREATHE THROUGH ‘THE FOREST’
Posted on 16 August 2025

After 50 years in the making, yes, 50 years, Ric Herrington’s Audiatic Orchestra refused to let ‘The Forest’ strike as an unassuming piece. The complexity and the vigorous soul vibrancy speak of all the years it took to gestate, each flourish an hour passing, welcoming you into a celebration of rhythm that resounds as though jazz sat you down at a campfire in Louisiana and spoke of folklore.

With Latin flourishes adding even more heat to the elements that show some Americana stripes, ‘The Forest’ becomes a panorama showing multiple images at once, allowing you to get lost within them. After the final note resounds, the silence is enough to sober you.

Ric Herrington’s orchestral work is unique in how it incorporates the music found in nature as instruments in their own right.

Written by Ric Herrington in 1976, it began in Colorado and travelled with him to Morocco and Scotland in search of the best performers to realise the vision. The story follows a young man named Fillmore who loses all that holds meaning to him, setting out on foot across the country with only the music in his head. Herrington’s long musical life has taken him through over 800 [Johnny Cash] tribute shows, countless international performances, and even seasons as the Magical Singing Santa, but ‘The Forest’ is his lifelong passion fully realised.

Ric Herrington’s Audiatic Orchestra – PROCESSION: An Acoustical Symphony (Album Review)

By Grace - Music Review World

The bold claim that orchestra pieces are usually released without formal introduction is no stranger to Ric Herrington, who aims to shatter the status quo with his newly released album. The work in question is intended to be taken as a unique treaty in music, where sounds of nature is incorporated seamlessly into the piece, taking their individual roles as an instrument without convention in their own right. The album is called ‘PROCESSION: An Acoustical Symphony’.

The album is centered around the story of a young man named Fillmore going on a cross-country journey on foot with little more than the music in his head and the clothes on his back in an attempt to rediscover himself. The work is done by Herrington himself, a lifelong professional musician and entertainer in 1976. This 35-minute work is a labour of love that has taken 50 years to fully cultivate. He refers to his own experience, noting audiation where birds, water, sounds, bees and another animal sonification seemed to ‘jam’ everytime he was playing outdoors. Written over several years in Colorado, Herrington then travelled to Morocco and Scotland in order to find the performers who could help him sonically visualise his dream. This then lead to 17 full-time musicians from Scotland coming together to complete the recording.

This musical work began as one man’s dream to understand the music of life on this planet. While it has admittedly taken many years, the man’s young dream has expanded to become an opportunity to numerous artists and dancers to collaborate and network into a single vision.

Besides this endeavor, Mr. Herrington has spent much of his working career as an interactive music act, working as a Johnny Cash and Neil Diamond tribute act under the name ‘Cash Back’. He has performed over 800 Cash shows across the UK and Ireland. In addition, he has also spent the past decade professionally presenting the ‘Magical Singing Santa’ during the Christmas festive period, in which he sings, plays instruments and participates in activities with families. During the Covid-19 pandemic, he switched his platform primarily online, streaming and performing live to raise money for charities. Music is his lifelong passion, and he embodies that.

In honour of World Ecology Day 2025, 'The River' from ‘PROCESSION: An Acoustical Symphony’ by Ric Herrington’s Audiatic Orchestra will be released on all streaming platforms on 1 November 2025. A re-mix with added nature sound design. ‘PROCESSION: The Environmental Symphony’, will be released at the same time.

The project is a delightful treatise to the artistic intent of the album, but I have to say, it is very homely and all-encompassing. It hugs you like a wise elder’s retelling of their journey by land, in an aim to explore and broaden their horizons, but with a slightly more musical flair. As it is organic through the instrumentation and the way it presents itself, with a lot of complex interplay between melodies and syncopation, I do find the intent a bit misleading and the marketing behind this body of work could’ve been saved for the second re-iteration of the album with more nature sound design as I do not get any ‘environmental’ interplay vibe from this body of work- simply, an acoustic and rustic take on the stories intended to be told.

‘The Meeting’ starts off sombre and inviting at the same time, before descending into a more cultural and ethnic percussive state with the wonderful instrumentation supporting it. It almost comes off as an Irish version of the song ‘Un Poco Loco’. It has a longing feeling to it, with aspects of invitation and journey. ‘The River’ is a bit more serene and deeper in perspective, with sounds in the background akin to pebbles. It has a softer yet deeper tone, counteracting the relative shallowness of the introductory track. It’s very quaint and flowy. ‘The First Dream’ then builds on the depth of the motive from the previous track, presenting a soundscape that is a bit more ethereal and dreamlike. Some of the motifs used in the flute definitely give the age of the composition off (the trills sound quite 70s) but the way it’s been mixed within the rest of the instrumentation make me neurologically focus more on the serenity and how well it blends with everything else. It’s definitely dreamy and contemplative, but not scary like a nightmare- it caresses you gently, but makes you think of what else could come. The slightly improvisational nature of the flute against the constant arpeggiation of the strings help to elevate that feel.

‘The Forest Dance’ then takes you back to reality, with a mixture of the built-up depth of the previous tracks and the title track. We’re moving forward, with positivity and gusto, mixed with an initial motif of contemplation. The woodwind in this track gives the track more dimension and timbre, definitely adding more mystique to the track. ‘The Journey’ then takes you almost in a lighter Bossa Nova trance, serving as a transitionary purpose before going on to ‘The Mountain’, with a bit of a rustic camp-town feel to it with the narrator’s voice and the melodies of the guitars. It then erupts into an interesting sequence with the bass and the strings, bringing you into a wonderful world of music. It’s extremely beautiful and this track has one of the highest motivic variation (honestly, all of them have above-average motivic variation) in all of the album.

‘The Second Dream’ comes off honestly different than the first one, this one presenting itself as a more wholesome and heartfelt composition with jazz influence in its improvisation and mastering. It’s filled with more love and tenderness, which is quite interesting. You’ll definitely go through an array of emotions while listening to this track, luring in more and more with its delectable musical phrasing. ‘The Sunrise’ then takes you into a more Western-esque soundscape, making you think of the feeling of the sun brightening up the horizon of darkness. I’d say in terms of composition and emotion this track evokes some of the strangest and deepest feelings that is very hard to enunciate in words. You’d have to listen to it to understand it. The best way I can describe it is a mixture of warmth, confusion, depth, longingness, solution and wisdom all in one. The journey then concludes with ‘The Return’, a more solemn take initially that then settles into a tone of jazzy, Bossa-Nova esque comfort. It’s a very apt musical description of how it feels to set out on a journey and then return. There’s a lot of determination and resolution within the chords of the track.

All in all, I’d say this body of work is very well done and could benefit from good marketing in order to execute the potential of the project. It has a lot of potential in having crossover to an audiovisual format or simply something with visuals due to how homely and cinematic it sounds, all while having a delightful amount of variation between each track to keep your ears and brain active. The various segments of the project gel very well together with perfect mastering, a great auditory canvas for storytelling.

SCORE / Outstanding: Ric Herrington’s Audiatic Orchestra is a compelling body of work that feels like you’re opening an extremely dense and rich storybook with each passing track. It’s more than just that it tells stories, it also ropes you in with a very sublime musical soundscape that’s hard to ignore even if you don’t regularly listen to music like this.

[We rank singles, EPs, and albums on a scale of Poor, Mediocre, Good, Excellent, and Outstanding]

You can keep up with the Audiatic Orchestra on Facebook, or his Official Website

Ric Herrington’s Audiatic Orchestra – PROCESSION: An Acoustical Symphony (Album Review)

By Grace - Music Review World

The bold claim that orchestra pieces are usually released without formal introduction is no stranger to Ric Herrington, who aims to shatter the status quo with his newly released album. The work in question is intended to be taken as a unique treaty in music, where sounds of nature is incorporated seamlessly into the piece, taking their individual roles as an instrument without convention in their own right. The album is called ‘PROCESSION: An Acoustical Symphony’.

The album is centered around the story of a young man named Fillmore going on a cross-country journey on foot with little more than the music in his head and the clothes on his back in an attempt to rediscover himself. The work is done by Herrington himself, a lifelong professional musician and entertainer in 1976. This 35-minute work is a labour of love that has taken 50 years to fully cultivate. He refers to his own experience, noting audiation where birds, water, sounds, bees and another animal sonification seemed to ‘jam’ everytime he was playing outdoors. Written over several years in Colorado, Herrington then travelled to Morocco and Scotland in order to find the performers who could help him sonically visualise his dream. This then lead to 17 full-time musicians from Scotland coming together to complete the recording.

This musical work began as one man’s dream to understand the music of life on this planet. While it has admittedly taken many years, the man’s young dream has expanded to become an opportunity to numerous artists and dancers to collaborate and network into a single vision.

Besides this endeavor, Mr. Herrington has spent much of his working career as an interactive music act, working as a Johnny Cash and Neil Diamond tribute act under the name ‘Cash Back’. He has performed over 800 Cash shows across the UK and Ireland. In addition, he has also spent the past decade professionally presenting the ‘Magical Singing Santa’ during the Christmas festive period, in which he sings, plays instruments and participates in activities with families. During the Covid-19 pandemic, he switched his platform primarily online, streaming and performing live to raise money for charities. Music is his lifelong passion, and he embodies that.

In honour of World Ecology Day 2025, 'The River' from ‘PROCESSION: An Acoustical Symphony’ by Ric Herrington’s Audiatic Orchestra will be released on all streaming platforms on 1 November 2025. A re-mix with added nature sound design. ‘PROCESSION: The Environmental Symphony’, will be released at the same time.

The project is a delightful treatise to the artistic intent of the album, but I have to say, it is very homely and all-encompassing. It hugs you like a wise elder’s retelling of their journey by land, in an aim to explore and broaden their horizons, but with a slightly more musical flair. As it is organic through the instrumentation and the way it presents itself, with a lot of complex interplay between melodies and syncopation, I do find the intent a bit misleading and the marketing behind this body of work could’ve been saved for the second re-iteration of the album with more nature sound design as I do not get any ‘environmental’ interplay vibe from this body of work- simply, an acoustic and rustic take on the stories intended to be told.

‘The Meeting’ starts off sombre and inviting at the same time, before descending into a more cultural and ethnic percussive state with the wonderful instrumentation supporting it. It almost comes off as an Irish version of the song ‘Un Poco Loco’. It has a longing feeling to it, with aspects of invitation and journey. ‘The River’ is a bit more serene and deeper in perspective, with sounds in the background akin to pebbles. It has a softer yet deeper tone, counteracting the relative shallowness of the introductory track. It’s very quaint and flowy. ‘The First Dream’ then builds on the depth of the motive from the previous track, presenting a soundscape that is a bit more ethereal and dreamlike. Some of the motifs used in the flute definitely give the age of the composition off (the trills sound quite 70s) but the way it’s been mixed within the rest of the instrumentation make me neurologically focus more on the serenity and how well it blends with everything else. It’s definitely dreamy and contemplative, but not scary like a nightmare- it caresses you gently, but makes you think of what else could come. The slightly improvisational nature of the flute against the constant arpeggiation of the strings help to elevate that feel.

‘The Forest Dance’ then takes you back to reality, with a mixture of the built-up depth of the previous tracks and the title track. We’re moving forward, with positivity and gusto, mixed with an initial motif of contemplation. The woodwind in this track gives the track more dimension and timbre, definitely adding more mystique to the track. ‘The Journey’ then takes you almost in a lighter Bossa Nova trance, serving as a transitionary purpose before going on to ‘The Mountain’, with a bit of a rustic camp-town feel to it with the narrator’s voice and the melodies of the guitars. It then erupts into an interesting sequence with the bass and the strings, bringing you into a wonderful world of music. It’s extremely beautiful and this track has one of the highest motivic variation (honestly, all of them have above-average motivic variation) in all of the album.

‘The Second Dream’ comes off honestly different than the first one, this one presenting itself as a more wholesome and heartfelt composition with jazz influence in its improvisation and mastering. It’s filled with more love and tenderness, which is quite interesting. You’ll definitely go through an array of emotions while listening to this track, luring in more and more with its delectable musical phrasing. ‘The Sunrise’ then takes you into a more Western-esque soundscape, making you think of the feeling of the sun brightening up the horizon of darkness. I’d say in terms of composition and emotion this track evokes some of the strangest and deepest feelings that is very hard to enunciate in words. You’d have to listen to it to understand it. The best way I can describe it is a mixture of warmth, confusion, depth, longingness, solution and wisdom all in one. The journey then concludes with ‘The Return’, a more solemn take initially that then settles into a tone of jazzy, Bossa-Nova esque comfort. It’s a very apt musical description of how it feels to set out on a journey and then return. There’s a lot of determination and resolution within the chords of the track.

All in all, I’d say this body of work is very well done and could benefit from good marketing in order to execute the potential of the project. It has a lot of potential in having crossover to an audiovisual format or simply something with visuals due to how homely and cinematic it sounds, all while having a delightful amount of variation between each track to keep your ears and brain active. The various segments of the project gel very well together with perfect mastering, a great auditory canvas for storytelling.

SCORE / Outstanding: Ric Herrington’s Audiatic Orchestra is a compelling body of work that feels like you’re opening an extremely dense and rich storybook with each passing track. It’s more than just that it tells stories, it also ropes you in with a very sublime musical soundscape that’s hard to ignore even if you don’t regularly listen to music like this.

[We rank singles, EPs, and albums on a scale of Poor, Mediocre, Good, Excellent, and Outstanding]

You can keep up with the Audiatic Orchestra on Facebook, or his Official Website

Ric Herrington’s Audiatic Orchestra – PROCESSION: An Acoustical Symphony (Album Review)

By Grace - Music Review World

The bold claim that orchestra pieces are usually released without formal introduction is no stranger to Ric Herrington, who aims to shatter the status quo with his newly released album. The work in question is intended to be taken as a unique treaty in music, where sounds of nature is incorporated seamlessly into the piece, taking their individual roles as an instrument without convention in their own right. The album is called ‘PROCESSION: An Acoustical Symphony’.

The album is centered around the story of a young man named Fillmore going on a cross-country journey on foot with little more than the music in his head and the clothes on his back in an attempt to rediscover himself. The work is done by Herrington himself, a lifelong professional musician and entertainer in 1976. This 35-minute work is a labour of love that has taken 50 years to fully cultivate. He refers to his own experience, noting audiation where birds, water, sounds, bees and another animal sonification seemed to ‘jam’ everytime he was playing outdoors. Written over several years in Colorado, Herrington then travelled to Morocco and Scotland in order to find the performers who could help him sonically visualise his dream. This then lead to 17 full-time musicians from Scotland coming together to complete the recording.

This musical work began as one man’s dream to understand the music of life on this planet. While it has admittedly taken many years, the man’s young dream has expanded to become an opportunity to numerous artists and dancers to collaborate and network into a single vision.

Besides this endeavor, Mr. Herrington has spent much of his working career as an interactive music act, working as a Johnny Cash and Neil Diamond tribute act under the name ‘Cash Back’. He has performed over 800 Cash shows across the UK and Ireland. In addition, he has also spent the past decade professionally presenting the ‘Magical Singing Santa’ during the Christmas festive period, in which he sings, plays instruments and participates in activities with families. During the Covid-19 pandemic, he switched his platform primarily online, streaming and performing live to raise money for charities. Music is his lifelong passion, and he embodies that.

In honour of World Ecology Day 2025, 'The River' from ‘PROCESSION: An Acoustical Symphony’ by Ric Herrington’s Audiatic Orchestra will be released on all streaming platforms on 1 November 2025. A re-mix with added nature sound design. ‘PROCESSION: The Environmental Symphony’, will be released at the same time.

The project is a delightful treatise to the artistic intent of the album, but I have to say, it is very homely and all-encompassing. It hugs you like a wise elder’s retelling of their journey by land, in an aim to explore and broaden their horizons, but with a slightly more musical flair. As it is organic through the instrumentation and the way it presents itself, with a lot of complex interplay between melodies and syncopation, I do find the intent a bit misleading and the marketing behind this body of work could’ve been saved for the second re-iteration of the album with more nature sound design as I do not get any ‘environmental’ interplay vibe from this body of work- simply, an acoustic and rustic take on the stories intended to be told.

‘The Meeting’ starts off sombre and inviting at the same time, before descending into a more cultural and ethnic percussive state with the wonderful instrumentation supporting it. It almost comes off as an Irish version of the song ‘Un Poco Loco’. It has a longing feeling to it, with aspects of invitation and journey. ‘The River’ is a bit more serene and deeper in perspective, with sounds in the background akin to pebbles. It has a softer yet deeper tone, counteracting the relative shallowness of the introductory track. It’s very quaint and flowy. ‘The First Dream’ then builds on the depth of the motive from the previous track, presenting a soundscape that is a bit more ethereal and dreamlike. Some of the motifs used in the flute definitely give the age of the composition off (the trills sound quite 70s) but the way it’s been mixed within the rest of the instrumentation make me neurologically focus more on the serenity and how well it blends with everything else. It’s definitely dreamy and contemplative, but not scary like a nightmare- it caresses you gently, but makes you think of what else could come. The slightly improvisational nature of the flute against the constant arpeggiation of the strings help to elevate that feel.

‘The Forest Dance’ then takes you back to reality, with a mixture of the built-up depth of the previous tracks and the title track. We’re moving forward, with positivity and gusto, mixed with an initial motif of contemplation. The woodwind in this track gives the track more dimension and timbre, definitely adding more mystique to the track. ‘The Journey’ then takes you almost in a lighter Bossa Nova trance, serving as a transitionary purpose before going on to ‘The Mountain’, with a bit of a rustic camp-town feel to it with the narrator’s voice and the melodies of the guitars. It then erupts into an interesting sequence with the bass and the strings, bringing you into a wonderful world of music. It’s extremely beautiful and this track has one of the highest motivic variation (honestly, all of them have above-average motivic variation) in all of the album.

‘The Second Dream’ comes off honestly different than the first one, this one presenting itself as a more wholesome and heartfelt composition with jazz influence in its improvisation and mastering. It’s filled with more love and tenderness, which is quite interesting. You’ll definitely go through an array of emotions while listening to this track, luring in more and more with its delectable musical phrasing. ‘The Sunrise’ then takes you into a more Western-esque soundscape, making you think of the feeling of the sun brightening up the horizon of darkness. I’d say in terms of composition and emotion this track evokes some of the strangest and deepest feelings that is very hard to enunciate in words. You’d have to listen to it to understand it. The best way I can describe it is a mixture of warmth, confusion, depth, longingness, solution and wisdom all in one. The journey then concludes with ‘The Return’, a more solemn take initially that then settles into a tone of jazzy, Bossa-Nova esque comfort. It’s a very apt musical description of how it feels to set out on a journey and then return. There’s a lot of determination and resolution within the chords of the track.

All in all, I’d say this body of work is very well done and could benefit from good marketing in order to execute the potential of the project. It has a lot of potential in having crossover to an audiovisual format or simply something with visuals due to how homely and cinematic it sounds, all while having a delightful amount of variation between each track to keep your ears and brain active. The various segments of the project gel very well together with perfect mastering, a great auditory canvas for storytelling.

SCORE / Outstanding: Ric Herrington’s Audiatic Orchestra is a compelling body of work that feels like you’re opening an extremely dense and rich storybook with each passing track. It’s more than just that it tells stories, it also ropes you in with a very sublime musical soundscape that’s hard to ignore even if you don’t regularly listen to music like this.

[We rank singles, EPs, and albums on a scale of Poor, Mediocre, Good, Excellent, and Outstanding]

You can keep up with the Audiatic Orchestra on Facebook, or his Official Website,

Ric Herrington’s Audiatic Orchestra – PROCESSION: An Acoustical Symphony (Album Review)

By Grace - Music Review World

The bold claim that orchestra pieces are usually released without formal introduction is no stranger to Ric Herrington, who aims to shatter the status quo with his newly released album. The work in question is intended to be taken as a unique treaty in music, where sounds of nature is incorporated seamlessly into the piece, taking their individual roles as an instrument without convention in their own right. The album is called ‘PROCESSION: An Acoustical Symphony’.

The album is centered around the story of a young man named Fillmore going on a cross-country journey on foot with little more than the music in his head and the clothes on his back in an attempt to rediscover himself. The work is done by Herrington himself, a lifelong professional musician and entertainer in 1976. This 35-minute work is a labour of love that has taken 50 years to fully cultivate. He refers to his own experience, noting audiation where birds, water, sounds, bees and another animal sonification seemed to ‘jam’ everytime he was playing outdoors. Written over several years in Colorado, Herrington then travelled to Morocco and Scotland in order to find the performers who could help him sonically visualise his dream. This then lead to 17 full-time musicians from Scotland coming together to complete the recording.

This musical work began as one man’s dream to understand the music of life on this planet. While it has admittedly taken many years, the man’s young dream has expanded to become an opportunity to numerous artists and dancers to collaborate and network into a single vision.

Besides this endeavor, Mr. Herrington has spent much of his working career as an interactive music act, working as a Johnny Cash and Neil Diamond tribute act under the name ‘Cash Back’. He has performed over 800 Cash shows across the UK and Ireland. In addition, he has also spent the past decade professionally presenting the ‘Magical Singing Santa’ during the Christmas festive period, in which he sings, plays instruments and participates in activities with families. During the Covid-19 pandemic, he switched his platform primarily online, streaming and performing live to raise money for charities. Music is his lifelong passion, and he embodies that.

In honour of World Ecology Day 2025, 'The River' from ‘PROCESSION: An Acoustical Symphony’ by Ric Herrington’s Audiatic Orchestra will be released on all streaming platforms on 1 November 2025. A re-mix with added nature sound design. ‘PROCESSION: The Environmental Symphony’, will be released at the same time.

The project is a delightful treatise to the artistic intent of the album, but I have to say, it is very homely and all-encompassing. It hugs you like a wise elder’s retelling of their journey by land, in an aim to explore and broaden their horizons, but with a slightly more musical flair. As it is organic through the instrumentation and the way it presents itself, with a lot of complex interplay between melodies and syncopation, I do find the intent a bit misleading and the marketing behind this body of work could’ve been saved for the second re-iteration of the album with more nature sound design as I do not get any ‘environmental’ interplay vibe from this body of work- simply, an acoustic and rustic take on the stories intended to be told.

‘The Meeting’ starts off sombre and inviting at the same time, before descending into a more cultural and ethnic percussive state with the wonderful instrumentation supporting it. It almost comes off as an Irish version of the song ‘Un Poco Loco’. It has a longing feeling to it, with aspects of invitation and journey. ‘The River’ is a bit more serene and deeper in perspective, with sounds in the background akin to pebbles. It has a softer yet deeper tone, counteracting the relative shallowness of the introductory track. It’s very quaint and flowy. ‘The First Dream’ then builds on the depth of the motive from the previous track, presenting a soundscape that is a bit more ethereal and dreamlike. Some of the motifs used in the flute definitely give the age of the composition off (the trills sound quite 70s) but the way it’s been mixed within the rest of the instrumentation make me neurologically focus more on the serenity and how well it blends with everything else. It’s definitely dreamy and contemplative, but not scary like a nightmare- it caresses you gently, but makes you think of what else could come. The slightly improvisational nature of the flute against the constant arpeggiation of the strings help to elevate that feel.

‘The Forest Dance’ then takes you back to reality, with a mixture of the built-up depth of the previous tracks and the title track. We’re moving forward, with positivity and gusto, mixed with an initial motif of contemplation. The woodwind in this track gives the track more dimension and timbre, definitely adding more mystique to the track. ‘The Journey’ then takes you almost in a lighter Bossa Nova trance, serving as a transitionary purpose before going on to ‘The Mountain’, with a bit of a rustic camp-town feel to it with the narrator’s voice and the melodies of the guitars. It then erupts into an interesting sequence with the bass and the strings, bringing you into a wonderful world of music. It’s extremely beautiful and this track has one of the highest motivic variation (honestly, all of them have above-average motivic variation) in all of the album.

‘The Second Dream’ comes off honestly different than the first one, this one presenting itself as a more wholesome and heartfelt composition with jazz influence in its improvisation and mastering. It’s filled with more love and tenderness, which is quite interesting. You’ll definitely go through an array of emotions while listening to this track, luring in more and more with its delectable musical phrasing. ‘The Sunrise’ then takes you into a more Western-esque soundscape, making you think of the feeling of the sun brightening up the horizon of darkness. I’d say in terms of composition and emotion this track evokes some of the strangest and deepest feelings that is very hard to enunciate in words. You’d have to listen to it to understand it. The best way I can describe it is a mixture of warmth, confusion, depth, longingness, solution and wisdom all in one. The journey then concludes with ‘The Return’, a more solemn take initially that then settles into a tone of jazzy, Bossa-Nova esque comfort. It’s a very apt musical description of how it feels to set out on a journey and then return. There’s a lot of determination and resolution within the chords of the track.

All in all, I’d say this body of work is very well done and could benefit from good marketing in order to execute the potential of the project. It has a lot of potential in having crossover to an audiovisual format or simply something with visuals due to how homely and cinematic it sounds, all while having a delightful amount of variation between each track to keep your ears and brain active. The various segments of the project gel very well together with perfect mastering, a great auditory canvas for storytelling.

SCORE / Outstanding: Ric Herrington’s Audiatic Orchestra is a compelling body of work that feels like you’re opening an extremely dense and rich storybook with each passing track. It’s more than just that it tells stories, it also ropes you in with a very sublime musical soundscape that’s hard to ignore even if you don’t regularly listen to music like this.

[We rank singles, EPs, and albums on a scale of Poor, Mediocre, Good, Excellent, and Outstanding]

You can keep up with the Audiatic Orchestra on Facebook, or his Official Website

Ric's Words

“Back when I was writing this thing… I would hitchhike a lot with my guitar. I was writing songs and stuff.”
Ric Herrington's years hitchhiking the wilds of America gave birth to the Audiatic Orchestra and PROCESSION.

"I’ve lost cars, money, girlfriends… but I haven’t lost my music," Ric reminisces when talking about the project. And it's no wonder. The project has been refined for over 50 years, going through many iterations and versions. The scale of the project reflects the care and attention to detail only that length of time can give.

"If there’s no-one around to tell you what you can or cannot do, you’ll do this impossible.”