Greetings!!
We/I will be doing my thing for a completely new audience a week from today
in downtown L.A.! If you're in town, please come down and see me in one of the best venues for singer/songwriters in the country!!

Also, if you know anyone in the LA area you think might be into please encourage them to check it out--obviously, that would make you a super fan, getting you in free to my next show!

So the show:

Wednesday, January 21st
7pm
THE HOTEL CAFE
1623 1/2 N. Cahuenga Blvd.
Los Angeles, Ca 90028

Also on the bill are Josh Kelley and the Rescues. Can't wait
Thanks -Dan

Hey Northeast Performer Magazine did a pretty cool piece on the Orange Ocean this month! Check it out. By the way, Happy New Year friends!!
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Hello y'all. I'm happy to say that lovely Laura of BreakThru Radio has featured us on her program The Boston Scene. She gave us a pretty healthy spot, playing Making Honey from the first record, followed by Diamondface and Wouldn't Take Much from the new record. Please check it out. Thanks Laura!!

http://www.breakthruradio.com/index.php?show=5013

We had a great show billed by Laura from Bridget and the Squares, with Telextile that received a nice review from North East Performer Magazine:

http://performermag. com/nep. livereviews. 0807. php

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Show of the month


The Orange Ocean / Teletextile / Bridget and the Squares

Great Scott

Allston, MA

May 21, 2008

The Orange Ocean set the tone for the night early on this drizzly Wednesday evening. The instruments set up on the stage were all low and close to the floor, with seemingly nothing above waist level. The music followed suit, as singer/vocalist Daniel Burke stood at a massive electric piano at center stage and started comping out low-range blocky chords starting the triad of primarily keyboard-based bands.


The Orange Ocean seem as if they are inevitably going somewhere. Perhaps it was the weird Elton John-inspired bass note/chord combinations between Burke and bassist Stu Pynn or perhaps the anxious beat of Kurt Dyrli's drums, but The Orange Ocean's sound is that of a cresting wave that grows yet never seems to break. Burke flitted about from digital piano to a Wurlitzer electric piano set up perpendicular to the front-facing digital keyboard. Burke seemed much more comfortable seated at the Wurlitzer than standing at the digital piano.


Listeners familiar with the headlining act that thought they knew where this night was going found themselves quite wrong upon the appearance of the arty Teletextile. A gauntlet of instruments (keyboards, small-scale synthesizers, another Wurlitzer, a medium sized harp, a trumpet and a violin) turned the stage into some weird sort of laboratory maze, where the subjects move about and play with different noisemakers. The set started somewhat roughly, thanks to a persistent loop that would not be silenced. This led to an extended interstitial between songs that may have led to a mutiny if not for the buoyant presence of front-woman Pamela Martinez. She is comfortable onstage with good reason; her impressive voice wells up from her small frame, leading the audience to wonder if that huge voice is really coming from this mere mortal on the stage. Teletextile's apparent reliance on pre-recorded tracks seemed somewhat overwrought; they merely need to provide a canvas for Martinez.


The ultimate set of the night came from Bridget and the Squares, although the diminutive Bridget informed the audience that this evenings Squares were actually more like Shills, filling in for the soon-to-be Squares. Bridget-and-the-Shills performed well after an odd mini-set by Bridget (real name: Laura Bridget Regan) away from her customary piano and playing acoustic guitar. Whatever instrument she plays, Regan's charms lay in her voice which lays somewhere on the register between a sultry Fiona Apple and an elfin Regina Spektor. Regan shatters the "little girl" thing with the occasional lyrical expletive, which seemed a bit over the top at times. A night of full of keyboards and small women with impressive pipes was a change from the general Allston guitar-driven extravaganza, and a showcase of three different yet similar styles coming to mesh in one evening.


-Review and photo by C.D.
Di Guardia

http://www.worcestermagazine.com/content/view/2925/30/

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Get caught in the air
Written by Chet Williamson
Thursday, 26 June 2008

The Orange Ocean's new crush

By Chet Williamson

Listening to Dan Burke sing Brian Wilson's "Caroline, No," at Nick's on any given Friday night is reason enough to celebrate great local music. Hearing Burke sing his original songs with The Orange Ocean on the brilliant new release, Caught in the Air, should put the outside world on notice. Here is a talent to watch.

From the opening track of "Diamondface" — with its jangly piano, anchoring bass and rustling drums — through to the close of the album with the megaphone magic of "When My Heart," here is a record that rhymes with and completes the word "orange."

Caught in the Air is an ocean full of lush-love pop for tired ears in search of strong lyricism, smart arrangements, luxuriant vocal harmonies and finger-popping grooves.

On paper, the band is a piano-based trio with Burke on keys. Bassist Stu Pynn doubles on guitar and vocals, and co-authored eight of the record's nine tunes. "When My Heart" he penned alone. Drummer Kurt Dyrli plays a kit full of percussion toys and sings.

To help in their efforts, the group enlisted a host of musician friends, including saxophonist Austin Eisele, trumpeter Afro DZ ak and clarinetist Patricia Kirkpatrick, among others — including a string quartet on "The Love Within," arranged by Joey Newman.

The Orange Ocean — formerly Walter, the Orange Ocean — takes its cues from a variety of sources and, rather than engaging in being hipper-than-thou posturing, they proudly acknowledge and praise them. Echoes of The Beach Boys and The Beatles drift into the more contemporary sounds of Coldplay and Radiohead. Image

It all starts with Burke. He not only has a voice that would make Harry Nilsson smirk because of his ability to effortlessly break into falsetto, he is also one literate songster, with a knack of finding just the right backdrop for his telling vignettes.

In "Diamondface," he playfully works in a smidge of banjo strumming, organ roiling and triangle sparkles. His writing for horns gives them just the exact swell and fade. His lyrics reveal a hopeless romantic with a sunny sense of optimism. Consider: "We spend the night listening to Jonathan Richman / we play house and lose for fun. Shriek at the sunrise, I've been lost in your eyes."

The title track, "Caught in the Air," opens with "I feel the pressure rising in me now coming up / disorienting little butterflies across my eyes. I can feel the path to your place. When you're in love, you fly along the interstate." It's a shiny little pop track caught in the air levitating.

"The Love Within" is the album's most ambitious production. Written by Burke, Pynn and Newman, it wanders into the neighborhood of Pet Sound. Newman found the Ocean on MySpace. While trolling through looking for East Coast songwriters, the group grabbed his ear and he contacted them. One thing led to another and the next thing either of them knew, they were swapping ideas and tracks. What started as a fairly random exchange resulted in a four-minute magnum opus. By the way, Newman is following in his famous uncle Randy's soundtracks.

"By the Ocean" clocks in at one minute, 10 seconds but is rich in density and satisfaction. The multi-tracked, all-Burke a capella is his blatant homage to Wilson, especially in the escaping, ascending falsetto part that harkens to "Caroline, No." Recorded in his room on Castle Street, Burke magically captures the verdant harmonies that set The Beach Boys apart.

Without giving away any more of the disc's many delights, here's a recommendation: Buy the album. It is money well-spent and an aural adventure even better invested.

For more on the band and Caught in the Air, check out their MySpace page or visit their Web site at theorangeocean.com.

Thank you all who made it out to make our cd release with Baker and 'Afro DZ ak' an awesome event! With the help of 4friends Events, we were able to host a party for the arrival of our new cd 'Caught In the Air'. It was held at our own space which was essentially an empty floor of a office building downtown Worcester. It was turned into our own club for just one night. Take a look!


Afro DZ ak started it all off with positive hip hop and inspiring trumpet

Baker lit it up with their amazing songs



It was a treat to see everyone's moves










it was bonkers!



Kaz Gamble was awesome to MC evening! Check out Kaz's blog for a vid! http://wegotthebeat.wordpress.com/2008/06/18/orange-ocean-cd-release-party

Paula provided the lovely spray paintings which are seen in just about every pic

We'll have some vids of songs soon!

For now songs from the new cd up for you to listen and chime in about!

ya!
The Orange Ocean

The votes for Worcester Magazine's annual Turtle Boy Awards have been tallied up, and Dan Burke has been voted top Singer Songwriter!

The Turtle Boy Award show will take place this thursday May 1st at Nick's Bar and Restaurant on Millbury Street, Worcester.

here is an interview in this month's Worcester Magazine with Burke:



WM:You've won the best singer/songwriter award. What keeps you motivated?

Love keeps me motivated a lot. The urge to create and competitiveness, sometimes. Also, money.



WM: Would you say that working out twice a day and eating healthy is beneficial for a musician?
Possibly. That depends on what you consider "working out," "eating healthy" and "beneficial" to mean. But generally speaking, eating regularly is really good for the higher forms of thinking.



WM: You're pretty well-read. Does literature at all affect your song-writing style?
Very much so. Probably, like, every time actually. Moby Dick, Sherlock Holmes, Walt Whitman, that kind of stuff. Actually, I wrote a song called "Fern" based on a short story in Jean Toomer's Cane. God knows why.



WM: Is singing outside a girl's window in the wee hours of the night creepy or romantic?

That depends on what the two people are wearing. I'm usually creepy and romantic. That's what sexy is all about.



WM: What are you afraid of the most: forgetting words to your own songs, or forgetting songs to your own words?

More than those, I'm afraid of forgetting to wear my tight pants when I play a show. By the way, I forget words to my songs all the time when performing. I don't have fear of it, it just sucks.

It looks like we'll have new music up within the week!

The tunes are getting a little more sonic love in the talented hands of Jeff and Maria at Peerless Mastering.

We're looking to get 'Caught in the Air' off the ground in style, so come back and be in touch!

thank you!

 Well you might have noticed we've been proclaiming the recording of a new album for quite a while now... this is not by design!!! We've had some delays here, our treasured engineer went away for the holidays for about a month or so, the studio has been upgrading to some new and improved equipment, so we've been patiently, patiently awaiting our return to tie up the loose ends and finish this thing that we're so excited about. Do not fear! We continue to be psyched about it and the future. Not long now!!