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Spain Colored Orange isn't familiar. Not a lot of pop bands have a trumpet player, to begin with. Or a layer of '70s playfulness you just don't expect during the over-serious indie aughts. Not to mention a frontman who sits at a keyboard on the side of the stage. This is a whole new world for local pop fans.
"We're not trying to make 'acceptable' music," trumpet player Eric Jackson says. "If I said, 'I think it would be totally cool if I banged a fork on a toilet,' Gilbert (Alfaro, the band's frontman) would say, 'Cool, let's put some delay on it.' I've got a slide whistle. I've never been in a band before where I could play a slide whistle."
It is this fearlessness that allows the band to do whatever sounds good, which is a wicked combination of pop, psychedelia, jazz and two voices: Jackson's trumpet blasts and Alfaro's sweet rasp. It all makes for a colorful painting that draws comparisons to Supertramp and ELO and draws fans of all ages.
-SARA CRESS Houston Chronicle
"We're not trying to make 'acceptable' music," trumpet player Eric Jackson says. "If I said, 'I think it would be totally cool if I banged a fork on a toilet,' Gilbert (Alfaro, the band's frontman) would say, 'Cool, let's put some delay on it.' I've got a slide whistle. I've never been in a band before where I could play a slide whistle."
It is this fearlessness that allows the band to do whatever sounds good, which is a wicked combination of pop, psychedelia, jazz and two voices: Jackson's trumpet blasts and Alfaro's sweet rasp. It all makes for a colorful painting that draws comparisons to Supertramp and ELO and draws fans of all ages.
-SARA CRESS Houston Chronicle
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