My parents are originally from Greenpoint, Brooklyn, but we moved to Middle Village, Queens when I was young. I was born in Charleston, South Carolina (my dad was in the Navy at the time, and stationed there at the time of my birth). My conversation with Orlando covered a lot of ground, but I think there's a lot of interesting tidbits many of you will enjoy.Įven though I've known you for over 20 years now, I'm still going to ask you some questions that I know the answers to so that our readers get some more insight into your background. I've been meaning to set up an interview with him since I started doing No Echo, and we're finally here. Orlando is also known as the guy behind Reservoir, a label that released records by Spazz, Garden Variety, Silent Majority, and Pig Destroyer and the powerviolence zine, Monkeybite. Orlando also played in D-beat worshippers Disnihil for a spell around that time. In the '00s, we worked together again on Hope Collapse, recording an EP of grindcore that also featured drummer Dave Witte, another former member of Black Army Jacket. In the mid-'90s, Orlando and I were bandmates in Black Army Jacket, but we had met some years prior to that when he was a member of Milhouse-a Long Island, NY-based outfit that played a Gravity Records-esque take on hardcore. I spent many hours of my early 20s driving in a van with Andrew Orlando.
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