Orange Street’s distinctive sound is a combination of heavy rap-rock, Indian classical & traditional Dhol shot through an electronica bed.

This band is based in New Delhi , India.
Their music can broadly be classified as Electronic Rock Fusion, Orange Street meld rock guitars, drums and an electronica bedrock with a variety of
ethnic Indian percussion (dholak, dhupli etc.) and Indian classical vocals.

1995’s “Great Indian Rock” project organized by the only music magazine “RSJ” at the time brought Orange Street to the attention of the audiences
and the music community in India. By 2002 they won the Great Indian Rock competition and made sufficient noise about their presence.
This consolidated their reputation for ground breaking new sound and uplifting live sets.

They started off in 1995 at New Delhi when singer Anirban Chakraborty teamed up with guitarist Saibal Basu, at the time when, to make original music
was yet to be “considered” and was largely overlooked by the country obsessed with anything “not Indian”.
Succumbing to what Anirban says “Life takes over”, the band had undergone several line-up changes till 2002 which had seen them working
with guitarist Gautam Chima, DJ Jayant, drummer Ashwani Verma and bassist Neel. By this time, the band had already toured across India and Sri Lanka
with two albums under their belt. “Drive Carefully for Our Shake” was released with RSJ records in 2000 and “Candywalk” was released nationally by Magnasound India
Records in 2002. Songs from this album were used in the award winning feature film called “Everybody Says Im Fine”, directed by Rahul Bose
who is also an established actor of Bollywood film industry in India.

A major change happened in October 2003 when Anirban, the driving force behind Orange Street decided to completely revamp the band including the sound.
Thus getting together some very talented musicians, Orange Street evolved with a ground breaking sound which is the first of its kind in their country.
The demo “DHARMA” saw this outstanding collaboration of the new line-up with guitarist Donny, drummer Ashwin Andrew, bassist Dara,
Hindustani classical singer Imran Khan and the Dhol player Parveen Sethi.

This was followed by an extensive tour to Europe and Scandinavia in the summer of 2004. The band played some major festivals
like “Peace and Love”, “Slottsfjell”, “Sundance Music Fetsival” and “Little Chili” across Sweden, Norway, Estonia and UK.
The concerts were a resounding success, Orange Street performing alongside top bands and artists like Motorhead,
Trilok Gurtu, Timbuktu, Hanoi Rocks and Nizami Brothers. During the tour both Imran Khan and Anirban were invited by Swedish producer Johanne
to record for a world music album that was to feature Manu Chao. Anirban also met up with the popular British Asian band, Asian Dub Foundation in London.

It was really an inspiring trip which has had a major influence on Orange Street’s outlook on music. The band has been writing ever since and spends a lot of time
discussing and following music from different parts of the world. Guitarist Donny is also a part time DJ who spins occasionally in clubs. Orange Street’s forceful
presence seems to be breaking new grounds defying many stereotypes of the Indian musicians.
In February 2005, Donny and Ashwin played with bassist John Myung of the mega band Dream Theatre. As they now say, they were truly “humbled” by the
experience.
Orange Street is currently concentrating on a full length album taking off from their demo “DHARMA” and preparing for the second tour to Scandinavia and Europe
starting in this summer of 2005.