Wednesday Feels Like Tuesday

Getting ready for our upcoming collaboration with Maggie Bergeron and Co. dancers. We are exploring the peculiar feeling of being transposed in time, when "Wednesday Feels Like Tuesday."

The show is Sunday, Jan 17 at the Bryant Lake Bowl Theater! Info in the photo and here.

New York/Cleveland Photos

Though we all came down with flu on the way back, the Trio enjoyed playing in New York with Mike Block mid-Oct! Mike even let us crash in Harlem with him.



We very much recommend Vegetarian Dum Sum House in SoHo. Thanks to Liz for lending us her guidebooks with notes in them!



Nick took us to Little Italy to play at the restaurant where he worked in college. It was fun to see the fabled place!



Mike is probably thinking about Infrastructure.



Taking the bass on the train-- no problem. You can also see the precise-razored haircut he got for $12 in Harlem.

Mike's tune, The Quietest Rag

We hope you'll love this humorous tune of Mike's, and we have created a suitable video for it, with found footage.



You can get an mp3 of this by putting Infrastructure into your computer. You'll see one disc pop up for the album tracks and one of bonus tracks.

A list of where to get our album

Just in case you needed it, we wanted to publish a definitive list of places online where you can get your own copy of Infrastructure album, if you don't have one in your possession already, or if you need one for any reason in the future.

In order of preference, starting with our favorite...

-Our website through Paypal. We'll mail it to you for $16. Mp3's are also available for download at $12-- pay with Paypal and you'll find a link back to the download page when you're done.

-CDbaby. It's such a great company that has helped us a lot. They will mail you the album or provide you with mp3 downloads.

-Good ol' iTunes. Just do a search. You won't get the hand-screenprinted packaging of the CD to carry around, but if you're fully in the digital era, you can find us there. If you wanna, you can put a nice comment up.

-Other mp3 music stores. CDbaby set up iTunes for us and also a lot of other digital distribution, including:

Amazon MP3
Amie Street
Didiom
Emusic
GreatIndieMusic
Inprodicon
iSound
Lala
Last.fm
LimeWire
Liquid Digital Media
MediaNet
Napster
Nokia
Rhapsody
Shockhound
Spotify
Tradebit
Verizon

Photos from our Travels

Tim Lennox from Seattle, sent us this photo of us playing at Victrola Coffee and Art in Seattle's Capital Hill neighborhood.

Now we've been back in our homes for a little while and have cleaned Nick's car (our tour vehicle) and downloaded tour pictures, so there's a photo gallery here, if you want to peruse it.

Thanks, West Coast! And, current and upcoming things.

Hello friends of Orange,

We've been to the West Coast, Square Lake Film and Music Festival, MacPhail Center for the Arts and The Whitney, since posting last. Thanks to all our hosts and concertgoers for helping make a good summer tour. We want to do it a West Coast tour again in about a year.

Highlights of the tour include: playing on the roof of a house boat, getting to be part of the studio audience for the Price is Right in LA, being promptly saved from a near running out of gas disaster in Idaho, and, of course, seeing lots of old friends, new faces, deserts, mountains and endless, empty Western scrub.

Now we are focusing in on our fall teaching duties and preparing some Werewolf-appropriate music for Joe's quasi-horror film "Silver Bullets." We've also been thinking about how we'd like to put on more fiddle and improvisation workshops. Teachers and workshop hosts, make yourselves known!

Upcoming, we've got an appearance at the Dakota Late Night series on Sept 25 in Minneapolis, a mini-tour to New York, where we'll play Cafe Vivaldi on Oct 17 (other dates TBA) and also a fall stop at Crossings at Carnegie on Oct 30th (day before Halloween).

The cool, fall-ish weather in Chicago feels good. I hope it's nice where you are.

Later,

Zack

Our new music video, with us in it.

A few months ago, the idea for this video was just a pipe dream, which we mentioned to our film maker friends. Beautifully directed and shot by Kris and Joe Swanberg. Thanks also to: Karl Jacob, Molly McCarthy, Liz Toonken, and Chris Vasich.

Workin' on a video!

With the help of Kris and Joe Swanberg (and an ad hoc crew) we carried a piano around Chicago to create a new Infrastructure video. We're editing it, and will post it here when it's done!

Infrastructure CD now available!

Our CD is now officially for sale, and can be purchased from our website by clicking here.

Right now the CD is available by mail or by download from our site, and will be available on iTunes, CD Baby, and select Twin Cities music stores soon!

Thanks for a great CD release!

A big thanks from us to you for spending your Saturday with us at the Cedar. Your company was very much appreciated, and we hope to see you again soon! On the radar: summer tour out west at the end of July, and come August, a slot at the Square Lake Music Festival in Stillwater, MN. You can check out the festival here

Should be a great show, and only 400 tickets are being sold, so buy early! Other bands include The Bad Plus, Roma di Luna, Charlie Parr, and a live film score by the International Novelty Gamelan Ensemble- should be an amazing night!

Kare 11 and Minnesota Public Radio

Last week, we went into MPR studios to record a session with Dale Connelly for Radio Heartland. The segment aired earlier this week on the online show, which airs nonstop, 24 hours a day at radioheartland.org.

Since then, the segment has been aired in a condensed version on All Things Considered, and Mark Wheat of 89.3 The Current has played our music to promote the CD release.

You can listen to the 20 minute recording made with Dale Connelly here

In other news, this morning we recorded a live track for KARE 11, as part of Showcase Minnesota. You can see us play live here

Buildup of Infrastructure.

This week, we'll be headed to the studios of MPR, for an interview on Dale Connolly's "Radio Heartland" which will be broadcast next week on the online version of the show and on 91.1 on a future Saturday night.

Then, we head to KARE 11 on June 11th, to be on their Showcase Minnesota. Even though we'll be spreading the word on those shows, we are hoping YOU will come.

RSVP to our CD release on Facebook.

Or, use Google Calendar.

Chicago Fiddle Camp!

If you play strings, we'd love it if you'd join us for the Chicago Fiddle Camp this summer! Zack and Nick will be joined by Mike Block, to teach violin, viola, cello, and bass students in small groups and in a gigantic "fiddle orchestra." Students will learn American fiddle tunes, blues, rock, back-up and solo techniques. We hope to pass on our excitement for both traditional and innovative fiddling.

You might be interested to know, you can get a discount if you sign up early! There is also a sibling discount. All bowed strings and all ages are welcome.

Please visit our website for bio's and information:

http://www.zackkline.com/camp

You can also feel free to e-mail Zack with questions.

Please help us spread the word.

North Dakota Ballet

We just got word that the North Dakota Ballet will be dancing to Fiddler's World this weekend. Cool.

The Latest

Hey friends of Orange-

Mike is enjoying Austin right now at SXSW, where our music was featured in two places: the trailer for Joe Swanberg's new movie (see below) and in beginning and end of Kris Swanberg's new movie (see below). Looks like we'll be working with the Swanberg's some more, and we'd like to work with other filmmakers.

Last week we did some mixing and a little editing, though we recorded in one room, so the editing is kept to a minimum. Of course, it decided to be symmetrical and be just as cold as our January session, with highs close to zero. Minnesota is not so bad really. Everyone in Chicago says Minneapolis is so cold but it's only 10 degrees colder on average.

Anyway, we're excited to be releasing our CD in June and are working on Summer Tour plans.

Trailer for "It was great, but I was ready to come home"

Kris Swanberg's movie trailer. The film and trailer use our tune, Point A. David Lowery on Vimeo because he did the editing, I believe. The trailer does "acknowledge the existence of sex."

Alexander the Last

It's funny how things happen. After some time in the studio finishing things up today, we got back to Mike's and found out our music is in the trailer for Joe Swanberg's new film "Alexander the Last" which opens at South by Southwest and will be available On Demand through Comcast etc.

VIEW TRAILER

Waltz of the Traffic Patterns

Since writing these transportation-related pieces, we realized that a lot of people's music listening happens in the car. We hope you will enjoy our music while you are in transit.

Infrastructure

While we haven't titled our album for sure yet, this could be the title track.

Zack created this video by traveling back in time to work for Encyclopedia Brittanica in 1948. They were surprisingly accommodating of a future person seeking footage and arranged for it to be public domain by the time we needed it.

The Long Zoom

When Mike wrote this etude, he came onstage for his senior recital and ripped through it first thing. We decided to adapt it for our group, and then we decided to create a video around it. The term "long zoom" refers to, well, a really long zoom shot, in film.

Sample New Tracks

New music from our upcoming release will start going up slowly on our myspace profile.

You can now hear a couple tunes, including Point A, Waltz of the Traffic Patterns and Driving With Your Eyes Open. Meanwhile, we must get back to listening to our studio tracks critically, deciding which ones will make the final cut, mixing, mastering and planning tours.

It was great, but I was ready to come home

The new indie film "It was great, but I was ready to come home" by Kris Swanberg will feature the Orange Mighty Trio piece, "Point A." We will be posting a preview or trailer soon (the tune is one our myspace page). Kris also makes homemade ice cream.

In addition, the film was accepted into the selective South by Southwest Festival film competition, which happens around March 14-19 in Austin, Texas! If you go to the festival, you might be interested to know that Mike will be attending as well.

Contribute photos to our Infrastructure project!

We want you to send us photos or video of any quality, related to transportation, infrastructure, commuting, and traveling. We hope to see both the roads, paths, and byways you take, as well as a personal side of your journeys. We especially want to see you or your comrades in the photos, driving, waiting for buses, on bikes, etc.

Ideas include:

-The starting point of your trips

-What you see while en route

-Public works you use

-Your favorite bridges and overpasses


We will be cobbling these together and creating videos for our infrastructure/transportation themed album.

Please submit to...

-orange mighty trio (all one word) at tcq net by e-mail

-OUR FLICKR GROUP

Savage TV

We got to go in the studios of Savage TV to play some music and talk. We told them we'd play like savages and when we got there, we saw they had taped a sign to the door bearing our quote.



Musicians, be advised, they are looking for more bands to be on their show.

VIEW THE TUNES AND INTERVIEW HERE

It was cold in the studio

...and we were laughing. Probably because we were done playing and Matt was standing on a chair taking our picture.

Uncommon Ground, Oct 2007

Our first gig in Chicago, if memory serves. Here's a sampling of tunes we did at Uncommon Ground.

Csardas

When we found out Nick could play this piece on the bass, we had to arrange it for our group.

The Long Zoom

Mike's etude. Fast and deadly. It will be on our new album.

We Play Mike's Tune "Natalie" in Mike's Living Room

Mike wrote this tune in memory of his piano teacher. We played it at his parent's house last summer.

Waltz of the Traffic Patterns

This will be on our new recording. The video is from April 2006, when we played before Frigg at the Cedar Cultural Center. Mike has since cut his hair. (Video by Bryan Aaker. Thanks, Brian.)

Sample our music

If you don't know us already, sample our first album.

New Album

We just finished sessions for our new album at Wild Sound in NE Minneapolis.



(The theme is Infrastructure.)