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Orchestra Morphine
12+ albums
jazzlow rockalternative rockjazz saxophonejazz noir
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Within a year of Sandman's death, Colley and Conway created Orchestra Morphine, a group of Sandman's friends and colleagues who toured to celebrate the music of the band and to raise funds for the Mark Sandman Music Education Fund. Orchestra Morphine mostly performed music from The Night, but also included some Hypnosonics material as well. Later, singer and guitarist Laurie Sargent, a member of Orchestra Morphine and former vocalist for the band Face to Face, would join Colley and Conway in their first post-Morphine musical endeavour, Twinemen. Conway and Colley also officially formed the Hi-n-Dry independent record label and studio, converting Sandman's workspace into a commercial enterprise. The label's roster includes a number of their friends, colleagues and other Boston-area musicians. Orchestra Morphine still reunites on occasion but no longer tours. Jerome Deupree continues to record with various jazz musicians and later became a member of the group Bourbon Princess. In 2006, Dana Colley formed the band A.K.A.C.O.D. with Monique Ortiz (former leader of Bourbon Princess). Their debut album Happiness was released in 2007, and the band will tour in 2008. July 3rd of 1999, Morphine's Mark Sandman, 46, died of a massive heart he suffered on-stage while playing in Italy, leaving surviving members Dana Coley (sax) and Billy Conway (drums) with an unreleased album back home in Sandman's home-studio, Hard Luck Music. Returning home to Boston, Conway and Coley laid low only br
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