: The record features stalwarts like Steve Hanley and Craig Scanlon, alongside Brix Smith , whose pop-sensibilities gave the album its "accessible" sheen.
Not the sickly, black rot of neglect, but the noble, alchemical rot. The kind that happens in a dark cellar, where the green mold blooms like a map of forgotten continents. Where the sugars ferment into a sharp, intelligent vinegar. Where the fruit, in its surrender, becomes something else .
The title itself is a pun on the 1960s Swedish arthouse film I Am Curious (Yellow) , perfectly encapsulating Smith’s love for high-and-low culture mashups. It wasn't just a soundtrack; it was a "key artwork of 1980s British art" that refused to be categorized.
Whether you're a lifelong Fall-head or a curious newcomer, I Am Kurious Oranj is a reminder that rock and roll is at its best when it's crashing into things it doesn't belong to. I Am Kurious Oranj Rar
Released on , the album I Am Kurious Oranj captured The Fall at a creative, if turbulent, peak.
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They called me Kurious because I asked questions. “Why must the peel be our tomb?” I asked the tangerine to my left. It told me to shut up and photosynthesize. : The record features stalwarts like Steve Hanley
Originally conceived as the soundtrack for a ballet titled I Am Curious, Orange , the project was a collaboration with the avant-garde . This ambitious work was timed to coincide with the 300th anniversary of William of Orange’s accession to the English throne. The Core Tracks and Sound
Days passed. My skin softened. My internal clocks began to tick backwards. While other oranges grew sweeter, I grew bitter. Then, past bitter, I grew sharp . A single wasp, drunk on the fermenting juices of a fallen apple below, landed on my cheek. It did not sting. It bowed. It recognized a kindred spirit of decay.
Conceptually, it is a mess—a beautiful, glorious mess. The album was commissioned as the soundtrack for a ballet titled I Am Curious, Orange , choreographed by Michael Clark. The ballet was a loose, post-modern retelling of the story of William of Orange (King William III), filtered through the lens of 1980s Thatcherite Britain. Where the sugars ferment into a sharp, intelligent vinegar
: From the heavy, threatening "New Big Prinz" (a rework of their earlier "Hip Priest") to a haunting, Smith-ified version of William Blake’s "Jerusalem," the album is a patchwork of "gnarled pop" and historical myth-making. Why It Still Matters
Day three: The mold arrived. It was not a destroyer, but a translator. It spoke in green, fuzzy sentences, breaking down my walls, turning my “me” into “we.” I could feel my memories—the smog, the concrete, the terrified laughter of the tangerine—dissolving into simpler compounds. The sorrow became sugar. The anger became acid.