# Organik

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This article is about the Robert Miles album. For the [King of the Dot](/source/King_of_the_Dot) host, see [Organik (musician)](/source/Organik_(musician)).

***Organik*** is the third studio album by [Robert Miles](/source/Robert_Miles), released on 11 June 2001. The first he independently recorded and produced after quitting his record company, it marked a complete departure from the style of his first two albums but still received overwhelmingly positive reviews.

## Overview

*Organik* was composed and arranged during the summer of 1999 at Can Maresa in [Ibiza](/source/Ibiza), then recorded and mixed across seventeen months from 2000 to 2001 at Muchmoremusic Studios in London. Self-released on Salt Records, it is also available from Narada, Shakti Records (U.S.), and DBX Records.

The title "TSBOL" stands for "That Small Bubble of Life".[1] It is derived from the sample used in the track intro: "*Time to work. Time to relax. Time to reflect... Look down. Look down. That fragile bubble of life float on a sea of nothing: [Spaceship Earth.]*".

## Track listing

1. "TSBOL" – 3:44
1. "Separation" – 4:32
1. "Paths" – 4:00
1. "Wrong" – 5:26
1. "It's All Coming Back" – 4:10
1. "Pour te Parler" – 4:21
1. "Trance Shapes" – 3:55
1. "Connections" – 4:57
1. "Release Me" – 7:48
1. "Improvisations Part 1" – 7:06
1. "Improvisations Part 2" – 5:53
1. "Endless" – 8:00

## Personnel

All tracks written by [Robert Miles](/source/Robert_Miles) (born Roberto Concina), except track 3 written by Robert Miles and [Smoke City](/source/Smoke_City) (Nina Miranda, Marc Brown, Chris Franck).

**Musical**

- [Robert Miles](/source/Robert_Miles) – keyboards (on 1-12)
- [Paul Falloon](/source/Paul_Falloon) – bass guitar (on 1-2, 4-8)
- [Nitin Sawhney](/source/Nitin_Sawhney) – electric guitar (on 4, 7), nylon guitar (on 6)
- [Bill Laswell](/source/Bill_Laswell) – [fretless bass](/source/Fretless_guitar) (on 9-11)
- [Gianni Trevisan](/source/Gianni_Trevisan) – electric guitar (on 2)
- [Taylor Made](/source/Taylor_Made_(musician)) – acoustic bass (on 3, 9)
- [Trilok Gurtu](/source/Trilok_Gurtu) – drums and percussion & [tabla](/source/Tabla) (on 9-11)
- [Marque Gilmore](/source/Marque_Gilmore) – drums (on 1, 4, 6-7)
- [Nina Miranda](/source/Nina_Miranda) – vocals (on 3)
- [Dhruba Ghosh](/source/Dhruba_Ghosh) – [sarangi](/source/Sarangi) (on 3, 9, 12)
- [The London Session Orchestra](/source/The_London_Session_Orchestra) – 20-piece strings (on 1, 4, 6)

**Technical**

- Robert Miles – arranger, programming, engineer, producer
- Nick Ingman – string arrangements (on 1, 4, 6)
- Toni Economides – additional production, engineer
- Michael Fossenkemper – mastering

**Samples**

- On 1, public domain sample from "Scenes of Earth and life on Earth" in *One Small Step*, by R. Lynn Bondurant, NASA, 1970.
- On 3, extract and lyrics from "Many Paths" by [Smoke City](/source/Smoke_City).
- On 5, samples recorded in Mnemba Island, Tanzania, January 1998.
- On 11, extracts from "Nagual Session" by Pianeta Terra (G. peres, G. Trevisan, A. Marchesan), July 1999.
- On 12, samples recorded in Can Maresa, [Ibiza](/source/Ibiza), summer 1999.

## References

1. ["Что означает название 'TSBOL' первого трека альбома 'Organik'?"](https://web.archive.org/web/20050309190808/http://dreamland.h11.ru/faq.shtml#6) (in en, Russian). 2005-03-09. Archived from [the original](http://dreamland.h11.ru/faq.shtml#6) on March 9, 2005. Retrieved 2012-03-18.

## External links

- [Profile of *Organik*](http://www.robert-miles.com/recordings/discography/?id=1&cid=2) at Robert-Miles.com

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