By José Gandue @Gandour
There's a new wave of bands from Bogotá that have found a balance between boldly reinventing their sound and genuinely wanting to reach a wider audience. These groups have avoided extreme labels and stifling affiliations with restrictive subcultures. Their guiding principle is to create songs that resonate with anyone who simply wants to listen, without any need to conform. They adopt the belief that music can belong to everyone.
Listening to this new generation of rock projects, we realize that a lot of time was wasted avoiding, due to shame that did not correspond to reality, talking about everyday topics, topics as common as love and heartbreak. Because they wanted to be above good and evil, many past proposals lost, in many cases, the opportunity to connect with people, as simple as that. The new bands we're talking about have shed the shell that plagued the local rock scene, and with that premise, they've been releasing works that are gaining an ever-growing audience among both fans and newcomers. A good example of this is Oh'laville.
This quartet now presents their album in its entirety. Orange, A collection of 12 songs, released in installments throughout the year, is now being released as a full-length album. Oh'laville, initially known as an acoustic project, has incorporated electric guitars into their latest recordings and They are accompanied by a powerful noise that gives them a special aggressiveness without losing, as we noted in a previous article, the tenderness and intimacy of their intentions. Upon listening to the entire work, we can realize that Orange It manages to give the band a mature profile, presenting songs that avoid being tied to the sonic intention of a passing fad. This album may aspire to define an era like few others., But I am sure that it can be heard at any time without clashing with future listening moments.
A special chapter for a particular song, specifically the one that gives this work its title. Orange It knows how to capture the spirit of the production, how to convey an honest and sensitive spirit, a brilliance that grows throughout its 4-minute duration. Furthermore, the lyrics are powerful: «"I'm going with the stampede towards the horizon/ Do you feel the call?/ It comes with time/ It's orange.". Perhaps it's not the song they'll choose to play heavily on the radio, But it deserves to become a genuine anthem for these turbulent times.
