Orplid is a

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and

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group of German musicians,

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and Frank Machau. The name is drawn from the poem Gesang Weylas by

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, beginning ‘Du bist Orplid, mein Land’ ('You are Orplid, my land'). Orplid in the poem is a faraway fantasy land. The band has progressed over the course of their discography from acoustic folk peppered with instruments like the piano, organ, and cello, to a more experimental minimalistic style.

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