Biography
"…//orangenoise’s trademark sound ensured that at the very least, their uniqueness would placate interested ears. Marrying Ride with The Smashing Pumpkins and My Bloody Valentine with Tool, //orangenoise make music that extends beyond a static understanding of shoegaze – it is born of psychedelia as much as it is born of noise; it is born of texture and post-rock as much as it is born out of a need to write good rock songs.
A Journey to the Heart of Matter however has //orangenoise stepping patently away from their work on Veracious. This time around there seems to be a greater focus on songwriting than on noise and soundscapes, though that’s not to say that those wonderful ideas have been ignored. Where Veracious was more in love with its psychedelia, A Journey to the Heart of Matter is more enamoured with the structure of the songs themselves and the ability to restrain them. ‘Getaway’ is this process working at its best – sonically the song seems at the precipice of losing itself in a vortex of cacophony, but the song’s structure is consistently present, reigning in every attempt to break away."
- Border Movement
www.bordermovement.com/orangenoise-a-journey-to-the-heart-of-matter/
//orangenoise's debut EP //veracious :: http://orangenoise.bandcamp.com/album/veracious
" //orangenoise is an impressive four-piece from Karachi, Pakistan consisting of musicians Talha Asim Wynne (guitar, vocals), Daniel Arthur Panjwaneey (bass, vocals), Danial Hyatt (drums) and Faizan Riedinger (guitar). As a follow up to their 2009 single The Morning After, the band has a debut collection of five songs in the form of a digital EP titled //veracious. After listening over the past several hours, we've found it almost impossible to choose only one highlight from this new release… With influences ranging from classic psychedelia and 60s garage-rock to an amazing take on both early and more recent shoegaze, //orangenoise seems content in tinkering playfully with the past while presenting a beautiful sound of their very own. "
(http://milkmilk-lemonade.blogspot.com/2011/01/orangenoise-veracious-ep.html)
" Karachi’s //orangenoise create dreamy, disjointed melodies and never go light on the reverb. Their songs go from ambient to thrashy and back again with the drums turned down and the guitar at center stage. At times, all you can hear are the residuals of a single chord. The production is true to the original incarnation of this sound. //orangenoise is more than just the only band in the region playing this style. They understand the nuances of how to make this stuff really well, and their music rivals the contemporary bands leading the revamped nu-gaze scene today."
(http://www.mtvdesi.com/2011/01/13/karachis-orangenoise-brings-shoegaze-to-pakistan/)
" The Karachi-based collective’s music leans heavily on Psychedelic, Garage Rock, Electronica and Shoegaze influences throughout their 5 track //veracious EP, creating a interesting set of sounds that’s both melodic and distorted. From ambient, dreamy sounds to semi-thrash noise in over 25 minutes, any listener should definitely be able to happily zone out to the solid and interesting grooves on tap.The music of //orangenoise is probably as close as you can get to blissfully “elevating” without being on drugs. "
(http://planetill.com/2011/01/indiesent-exposure-elevate-your-mind-with-orangenoise)
It is only inevitable that, when like minded humans surfing on the same musical wavelength come together, the result is going to be speedball hurricane of all the sounds they ever wanted.
//orangenoise is two members each from Look Busy Do Nothing and Mole, they've taken noise and given it a tangible form for you to sink yourself into and together they send you off to that space of dissociation where the only hook to reality is music.
Drawing inspiration from the heavy feedback drenched sounds of shoegaze and ambient textural buildups from post-rock //orangenoise is constantly experimenting with its wall of sound combining anything from electronic and lo-fi sounds to reverb-drenched slurred flute passages.
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