Ochre Room
Box, Bar & Diamond
OCHRE ROOM was founded in 2010 as a result of fellow literature students shared musical interests. Their love for old blues, sprinkling folk rock of the 60s and 70s and modern alt. country led to the formation of a new, ambitious Americana band. Mellow trumpet melodies, the eerily sweet male and female vocal harmonies, and the subtle lyrics written by bassist MOISIO and singer-guitarist-composer MYLLYMKI soon became trademarks of the band. The debut album ,Evening Coming In" released in October 2012 marked a culmination of the bands first steps. The album was very well received in Finland and highly acclaimed by the European media. For instance, its ,beautiful lo-fi Americana" (NO DEPRESSION, UK) was characterized as being ,behind its time in a good way" (HELSINGIN SANOMAT, FIN) or as ,the finest music of the fall" (AAMULEHTI, FIN). OCHRE ROOMs second album is entitled ,Box, Bar & Diamond" and its due for release in Finland, Central Europe and UK in May 2014. The new album showcases a band who have found their own sound: ,Our debut album was more or less documentary by nature; we went to the studio and performed the songs the way wed played them live. With the new album we wanted to focus more on the art of recording, to try to capture our bands essence in the medium of recorded music. Of course we wanted to preserve some of the energy and the immediacy of live shows. There are a lot of nice contrasts on this album. On the one hand, theres this bright and light side with catchy pop melodies, but on the other hand, some of the songs are the gloomiest ones in our catalogue so far. The arrangements vary from big orchestrations to contemplative moments with just a man and a guitar." LAURI MYLLYMKI, the bands lead singer and composer describes.