A Lot Like Life

Mad Orange Fireworks creates its own genre of music called orange rock,and sings about the side effects of love and quarter life crisis in their debut album

Some years ago,Michael Dias found himself sitting confused at a mental hospital. His friend,who was suffering from a heartbreak,had just been admitted there. Dias friend had tried every trick to relieve himself of the grief of his break-up,but love got the better of him. This made Dias think about love in a very different,more tainted,way. He scribbled down his thoughts and found that he had written a song expressing his feelings. Over the years,he wrote many other songs inspired by incidents in life and was on the lookout for a band to put his words into tune.

A little over two years ago,Dias met three other musicians who were looking for a break in their music career,and they joined to form Mad Orange Fireworks in Bangalore. Mad,because I wanted the name to start with that word,and Orange because we all agreed it describes our music which is fun. We were sitting around a bonfire when we were discussing the name and a member said the last word should be fire,but it sounded incomplete. His insistence finally led to Fireworks,which worked, recalls Dias.

While Dias and Ramanan Chandramouli are on vocals and guitar,Kaushik Kumar masters bass,and Deepak Raghu drums out the beats. All of them are in their mid 20s and Dias shares that this aspect has inspired a song called Quarter-life crisis.

We have just started out as professionals in the music scene and life is really a roller-coaster. Everyone in their mid-20s goes through a similar kind of crisis. Quarter-life crisis is like mid-life crisis,but with a different set of problems to be handled, says Dias. A line from the song,All that was good got lost in the past,cant get a grip of the life line cast,inspired the title of their debut album,which will be released in Bangalore on Friday and in Pune on Sunday at High Spirits Cafe, he adds.

The album,titled Lifeline Cast,features 10 original compositions which are written and sung mostly by Dias. Another song,titled Empty Saturday,is about how some people have to work on Saturdays while others can relax at home,go for brunches and do whatever they want. It is really irritating to have it rubbed in when you are stuck at work. So,I wrote a song about it, says Dias.

The band hops from one genre to another and succeeds in transcending boundaries of this multiplicity in each of their songs. While Empty Saturday has a bit of grunge influence,Quarter-life crisis has a peppy pop-rock tune to it. If you ask us which genre we belong to,each of us will give you a different set of genres. So we decided to create our own genre,called Orange rock, Dias signs off.

(Mad Orange Fireworks will perform at High Spirits Cafe

on Sunday,starting 2pm)

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A Lot Like Life

Mad Orange Fireworks creates its own genre of music called orange rock,and sings about the side effects of love and quarter life crisis in their debut album

Mad Orange Fireworks creates its own genre of music called orange rock,and sings about the side effects of love and quarter life crisis in their debut album