"Music is Mobility!" is the mantra. Activity is the goal. The Oranges Band 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 Calendar 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 five song effort titled "Nine Hundred Miles of Fucking Hell", released on April 16 2001, provided the punctuation at the end of a very full first year.
In it's second year, with the original touring line up still in place, the band confirmed it's commitment by adopting the more appropriate title of The Oranges Band. They spent the year working out the material for their first proper album while touring, less expansively, along the east coast and in the mid-west, with Roman's art project band Spoon (with whom he has spent the last year playing Tim's bass). And finally, two years after it's inception, the Oranges Band place the finishing touches on their first full length album (recorded at ACR audio in Baltimore by Zen patience master Craig Bowen) and prepare for an extremely busy third year of touring, recording and van payments.
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