"Music
is Mobility!" is the mantra. Activity is the goal. The Oranges are
a concept band and the concept reads "Make good music. Take to the
streets." It sounds easy, and it is. But it took a while to arrive
at this simplicity. Roman Kuebler began making music five years
ago with the Roads to Space Travel, a Baltimore quartet of indie
rockers banging around in their basement. The quartet slimmed to
a trio and the band focused on creating complex pop music. They
eventually caught the attention of their long time friends at Amish
records who put out two full lengths as well as the folks at DeSoto
records in nearby DC, who produced a beautifully crafted seven inch.
A few tours came and went. The group decided to focus its attention
on mainly local affairs and eventually disbanded. This provided
Roman with the motivation to realize the Oranges.
The
original concept Roman had considered for some time,was that the
Oranges, in various forms, would travel the country writing, recording
and performing music with a vast network of musicians. Still sound
easy? Well its not, sadly. And being a little lazy he decide to
go the old fashioned route and get a core group of players to
provide a consistent foundation. For the core group Roman recruited
Dave Voyles, whose drumming with local emo wonders Wrong Button
earns high praise, and high school henchman Tim Johnston, who
played with the spazz rock group Brickhead. Dan Black, friend
of the family and multi-instrumentalist, joined the group three
days before our first tour on a dare from his mother who claimed
he "was getting soft since graduating college"!
The
Orange Calender then started around April, 2000 with the release
of the innovatively packaged and appropriately titled seven inch/cd
combo, "The Five Dollars EP", on Morphius Records. Followed
directly in May and June with their first US tour. The summer
was spent recording in DC before a second US tour in November.
Upon returning the band put the finishing touches on the newest
batch of recordings and sent them off to the plant, again with
the Morphius tag. This latest five song effort titled "Nine
Hundred Miles of Fucking Hell", released on April 16 2001,
provides the punctuation at the end of a very full first year.
The
band's second year finds them changing things up a bit. The release
of the new ep makes "The Oranges Band" new name official,
justified by the addition of Greg McKenna on the keys. But some
things never change and April also finds the band back on the
road for a week of shows in the mid-west with Texas press darlings
and cool cats, Spoon. Plans are also underway for further east
side touring activity with Burning Airlines as well as a trip
through the south. All this in anticipation of the first official
full length to be released sometime this fall, for which demos
are already underway.
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