ORION ＂HIGHER＂ - ORION ＂HIGHER＂

What this video is

Released in November 2020 at the height of pandemic-era cultural withdrawal, 'Higher' by ORION arrived as part of Italians Do It Better's After Dark 3 compilation — the label's first such release since After Dark 2 in 2013. The track is a cover of Italian disco artist Vivien Vee's 'Higher,' situating ORION directly within the label's longstanding project of reviving and recontextualizing Eurodisco and Italo-disco…

Why it matters

Represents the 2020 peak of the analog synthwave and Italo-disco revival as curated by Italians Do It Better. As a cover of a 1980 Eurodisco track reprocessed through contemporary analog production, the video documents the genre's self-referential archival impulse — paying homage while asserting…

The director

Orion Rigel Dommisse is a Providence, RI-based musician and animator. As a musician, she performs alternative, folk, and indie singer-songwriter material, releasing her debut album 'What I Want from You Is Sweet' in 2007 and subsequent records on What A…