Sweet Heartache<\/a>\u201d out now.\u00a0<\/p>\nOrange Animal is John Ramsey (guitar\/vocals), Bill Derivan (bass guitar), Chris Shaheen (guitar) and Adam Thurman (drums\/percussion).<\/p>\n
John says, \u2018\u201dSweet Heartache\u201d is a slinky, mantra-like alt rock song about the quiet tension between holding on to heartache and letting love run free.\u201d He continues, \u201cIt started with a memory\/feeling of heartache and loss but slowly led to the reminder that regardless of the loss, there are certain things about you that can\u2019t be taken or broken.\u201d<\/p>\n
While, \u201cSweet Heartache\u201d started with John hearing a specific sound in his head, that\u2019s not how things typically come about when he\u2019s writing. \u201cThis song was unique in that I wrote the bass line first followed by the guitar solo. The rest flowed from there\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n
John\u2019s current musical influences certainly vary from one extreme to the next. \u201cI can\u2019t seem to get enough Glen Hansard right now and Feist. But \u201cSweet Heartache\u201d harkens back to my love of rock\/metal (especially in the guitar solo).\u201d<\/p>\n
Clearly John has a huge affinity for playing and writing music, but he\u2019s also a huge classical music fan, which you wouldn\u2019t expect from all of the music he has written in the past. He also writes and plays mainly by ear and can juggle.<\/p>\n
You can find Orange Animal continuing to write and record while playing shows at a venue near you.<\/p>\n