New Signing PANTōNE VU Shares “Orange Apricot” From ‘The Orange Series’ EP (Out May 4)
February 28, 2022 BY Penny Palmer
Chromesthesia (sound-to-color synesthesia) is when sounds automatically and involuntarily evoke an experience of color. Meet PANTōNE VU. PANTōNE VU is a synesthesia-curious partnership between two musicians looking to explore the intersection of color and sound.
About the track, they said, “we are huge fans of Hainbach and love the way he coaxes dusty old test equipment into song. His sound library collaboration with Spitfire Audio is called Landfill Totems and provided the maquette around which we built ‘Orange Apricot.'”
The track is the latest single from The Orange Series EP, which follows the release of their debut EP, The Blue Series (available to stream HERE). The latest in a two-part concept series via Nettwerk Records, the duo blends found sound, live performance, and modular synth-tinkering to explore the many musical trails that exist in the corners of the color spectrum.“There’s a visual artist named Stephen Appleby-Barr who, in preparing to create new work, first constructs three-dimensional architectural maquettes which he then uses as the subject of his next painting. We found this process intriguing, and on the ‘Orange Series’ EP set about attempting to create an audio equivalent—first building little skeletons out of found sounds, snippets of conversations and then weaving those into a new piece of music. ‘Russet Orange’ started with an overheard online conversation between two jazz musicians listening to a John Coltrane record. We set these fragments of conversation against a backdrop of drum machine, live kit, sampled wind section, and a saxophone to arrive at our destination. We built ‘Orange Apricot’ around the maquette of throbbing noise samples from our favorite Patreon synth explorer Hainbach. On ‘Iceland Poppy,’ we set out to write a cue for an imagined film by Ari Aster and then distressed the cue fragment as if it had been sampled from old vinyl.”
“Orange Apricot” is available at all digital retailers here: https://pantonevu.ffm.to/orangeapricot
Watch The Visualizer For “Orange Apricot” HERE:
‘The Orange Series’ EP Track List:
Russet Orange
Orange Apricot
Tumeric
Carrot Curl
Iceland Poppy
Orange Poppy
