Artist Close-Up: Ed Romanoff Is The Orphan King

Ed Romanoff is The Orphan King. After discovering he was adopted, Romanoff used music as a literal point of self. Who are you when you are not bound by blood but by bond? Does It make it less, or does it open you up to redefine what is more? In search for his past, analyzing his present, and re-examining the word “future”, Romanoff has written a series sonic “fairytales” called songs.

The Orphan King plays like a modern Peter Pan. You are drawn into the tale of a young man who feels stunted in growth, and haunted by an emptiness he does not understand. The young man finds love, loses it, and find it again in tracks like, “Golden Crown”, “I’ll Remember You”, and “The Night Is A Woman”. Romanoff’s broody, folkish sound makes his fairytales based more on Grimm than Disney; you see the dark forest in “Lost And Gone”, you can hear the wailing widows (guitars) in “Blue Boulevard (Na Na Na)’, and hear the cracking leaves/ instrumentals of “Leaving With Someone Else”. This Orphan King is ciphering through the ashes of abandonment that stir not only when a relationship burns out but also a perception.

From “Elephant Man” to “The Ballad of Willie Sutton” or “Less Broken Now”, Romanoff’s talent shines as a man that turns basic, human emotions into fantasies. Sadness waltzes in “Miss Worby’s Ghost” and Nostalgia dips her toes in a wavy, sand- grained melody during “Without You (Featuring Kenneth Pattengale)”. Yet, no matter what, Romanoff never loses his narrative style as a singer that emotes his lyrics with a balance between emotional dramatics and distance. He wants to draw you in and guide you to his stories because, for an Orphan King, all you are is the tales you tell. For More Information on Ed Romanoff And To Buy The Orphan King Click Here.