In the world according to the majority of Western media, Pakistan might well the scariest place on Earth, the real-life Mordor so to speak, a menace to all so-called free societies, and after all, the archetypical rogue state. Whenever Pakistan is mentioned in the news, the topics you almost unconsciously expect are those related to terrorism, drone operations, or nuclear weapons. Sure, there are reasons for that which can hardly be denied, yet during the last few years, a level of imbalance has been reached with the result that every story coming from Pakistan that does not deal [...]
This January, Karachi shoegaze band //orangenoise released their debut EP //veracious . Two months later, prolific guitarist/vocalist Talha Asim Wynne has released his first EP Bébo, as a solo instrumental project called Toll Crane . The four-track EP sees Wynne's first venture into electronica and trip-hop, with his breezy new brand of electro-jazz over programmed drums. He tells us about the project I looked at this project with a punk/free jazz approach. I've been meaning to make some chilled out music for some time, and Ive been playing [...]
Check out some new releases by Indian and international artists; we've got full CDs to stream for free on NH7! //veracious (2011) //orangenoise 6-track debut shoegaze EP from the Karachi band. Stream here . MPLS (2010) Arron Dean 12-track acoustic rock album [...]
"It's more about the feeling, I think the words take away from the feeling a song usually gives you. When you put down words, it becomes subjective. When the listener at the other end might end up perceiving those words as whatever they want to. If the artist tries to portray a certain feeling, that sometimes gets lost in the subjectivity of the words. So we did put words in, but tried to make it more about where the words fit in to the music. It's a ride, words drowning out and surfacing later again, you enter the song and [...]
//orangenoise' s debut EP //veracious puts their listeners through an incredible mental drowning - inside something thick, dirty and multicolored. Entrenched in fat distortion and layers of feedback, voices on distant reverb fading into paper-thin whispers, inconspicuously warbling guitars that build upto a glistening tumult, it's evident that some formidably psychedelic shoegaze/dreampop is emerging out of Karachi, Pakistan. Dreampop is far too mild a term- //orangenoise pick up where My Bloody Valentine left off in 1991, thrash it around and turn into something irresistibly abrasive. The four-piece band, comprised of Talha Asim Wynne (guitars, vocals), Daniel [...]
In maintaining this little music blog, we keep no running count of various parts of the world from which musicians send morsels of their audio craft to our email inbox or front door. In the case of today's featured artist, however, we might just have a first where location is concerned. //orangenoise is an impressive four-piece from Karachi, Pakistan consisting of musicians Talha Asim Wynne (
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