Pume Orenge - Angel By Milo Pume Orenge

Pume Orenge self-released EP was supported and distributed by All Night Flight. With support from World Of Echo, In Sheeps Clothing, Kanyko Records and many more.

Pume Orenge has had support from BBC Radio 3’s Night Tracks, Late Junction and BBC 6 Music’s Dreamtime with Zakia

Continued support on NTS Radio including: Flo Dill, Time Is Away, Spirit Blue and many more!

Artwork and riso print by Niall Greeves and label layout from Ashley Kinnard.

FFO: Milan W. Time Is Away, Fohn, Flaer and CS + Kreme

Bristol duo Pume Orenge unspool a world of spectral electronica from cassette loops and instrumental improvisation on debut album Angel By Milo, released on 27 March on Odda Recordings.

It is a world that opens draped in ferric hiss. A fog of sound, dense and yet not quite there, catching the light in strange shades and ambient drifts. Looping and receding, looping and receding, as pucks of static burst like faraway fireworks on a cold winter’s night. Sound sources obscured, ambiguous, not quite what they seem.

Angel By Milo takes its lead from the analogue process and textures by which it was made. Percussive and melodic loops were established, manipulated and responded to with instrumental improvisation, in a give-and-take with the materiality of the medium.

Across these seven intricately developed tracks, the sound fluctuates between the cinematic and the introspective, at times melancholy, at others verging on a kind of restrained anger, before the calm sets in once more. It is music for the small hours, awash with the grainy stuff of memory.

Embedded within Bristol’s independent scene, Pume Orenge’s quiet debut also speaks to the duo’s shared roots in the area, and like many of Odda’s previous releases, contains a sensitivity to place and atmosphere, even when these are no more than implied.

Angel By Milo builds on the DIY ethos of Pume Orenge's 2023 self-titled debut EP, whose tracks were recorded live in single takes, now honing a more intentional, purposeful approach to music making. It is one in which layers of meaning are allowed to reveal themselves, a way of composing that makes a virtue of its labour and the chance occurrences that can arise in the process.

This is music in praise of shadows. Of the things we can’t quite see, the feelings we can’t quite grasp. Heard through the haze, or maybe not at all.

A1. 1. Bitts (3.47)
A2. 2. Milo (5.57)
A3. 3. 602 (2.47)
A4. 4. Pilot (3.44)
B1. 5. Sanyo (6.34)
B2. 6. Headed (6.13)
B3. 7. Ribo (5.03)

Pume Orenge live:

26 March Spanners, London, UK , 2 April Kino, Bristol, UK , 23 May Wharf Chambers, Leeds, UK