For some companies, colour is brand: Orange sounded like a daft name for a mobile phone, but it worked.Red is for retail.
By Sasha Frere-Jones Hynes's work in Blood Orange sounds as if it were designed to be played on imaginary yachts and in V.I.P. rooms.
"Channel ORANGE" sounds unrelentingly warm and even, sequenced in a way that forms a narrative arc, and Ocean's voice is relaxed, combining powerful high notes and a hazy mid-range.
In Chinese, the word for "orange" sounds exactly like the word for "gold," so to put these fruitful symbols in those two rooms associated only with abundance -- it can only mean the happiest new year yet!
But many of the seven variations here (fruitcake brûlée with caramelized blood oranges?) sound pretty good.
However, the musicians – who have long since swapped streams of whiskey for glasses of orange juice – sound pure and strong, dipping deeply into Irish folk and British punk.
Some of the recipes, like Paul Chan's fennel and orange salad, sound like simple, healthy, potluck fare; others, like the New Delhi-based Raqs Media Collective's spicy shrimp dish "Pirates of the Bay of Bengal," will appeal to a more daring palate.
