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the orange ocean -in WORCESTER Friday!!

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About Me

The new cd Caught In the Air is out and available on cdbaby

Debut album, "Restless or Sleeping"

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Buythe cd at cdbaby.com

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/13/2005
Band Website: waltertheorangeocean.com
Band Members: Dan 'the lasso' Burke singer/pianist
Stu Pynn Bass/
Kurt Dyrli Percussion/ drums

Influences: Beach Boys, Rufus Wainwright, Jens Lekman, Bjork, My Morning Jacket, D'Angelo, Pogues, Elton John, The Band, Paul Simon, Midlake, The Roots, Randy Newman, Antony & the Johnsons, Arcade Fire, Prince, Leonard Cohen, and many others.
Sounds Like:

“This album represents some of the finest songwriting I've heard in years. The songs are beautifully crafted and sophisticated with incredibly haunting melodies...”

- Joey Newman, Film/TV composer, Los Angeles.

“…shockingly earnest, and even sweet.”

- PaulMcMorrow, The Weekly Dig, Boston.
"Restless or Sleeping," was nominated for the WBZ-TV Boston 2007 Album ofthe Year, thanks to you!!

"Walter the Orange Ocean is a phenomenal group, they’re all sympathetic to one anothermusically. Dan the lead singer’s got a wonderful vocal sensibility, his writingskills are just superb, I love it.”
Lior Shamir, We Are Listening Songwriting Competition Managing Director,London.

This is a video put together by We Are Listening:

Type of Label: None

My Blog

Live Review in Performer Magazine- "Show of the Month"

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. phporSh...
Posted by the orange ocean -in WORCESTER Friday!! on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:20:00 PST

Nice review of CD in Wo Mag

http://www.worcestermagazine.com/content/view/2925/30/orGet caught in the airWritten by Chet Williamson Thursday, 26 June 2008The Orange Ocean's new crushBy Chet WilliamsonListening to Dan Burke sin...
Posted by the orange ocean -in WORCESTER Friday!! on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:23:00 PST

Caught In the Air available on CDbaby.com

We're happy to say the new cd Caught In the Air is up on CDbaby!talk about high pressure sales, hey?...
Posted by the orange ocean -in WORCESTER Friday!! on Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:09:00 PST

CD release was awesome! Thank You!

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 ...
Posted by the orange ocean -in WORCESTER Friday!! on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:33:00 PST

Dan Burke Voted Turtle Boy Award *interview*

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 ...
Posted by the orange ocean -in WORCESTER Friday!! on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:49:00 PST

songs so soon !

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 A...
Posted by the orange ocean -in WORCESTER Friday!! on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:50:00 PST

Album update!

 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...
Posted by the orange ocean -in WORCESTER Friday!! on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 07:38:00 PST

Now on Music Nation

Hi all, we now have a profile page on Music Nation, for anyone interested. It was just created so there isn't too much there yet but give it a chance!!! http://wtoo.musicnation.com/    ...
Posted by the orange ocean -in WORCESTER Friday!! on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:34:00 PST

Behold, a new album has begun....

 Well we want to keep everybody informed, lest you think we're just sitting around. As you might know a little while back we were fortunate enough to have won first place in the Firefly Studios B...
Posted by the orange ocean -in WORCESTER Friday!! on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 07:58:00 PST

WERS artist interview from a while back....

 Just found this recently.... http://www.wers.org/articles/?id=299
Posted by the orange ocean -in WORCESTER Friday!! on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 02:40:00 PST