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Title: casiotone fo the painfully alone Post by: Turambar on November 07, 2006, 14:43:48 pm http://www.cftpa.org/home.htm
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone is the musical alias of 28 year old American film school drop-out Owen Ashworth. Ashworth began making music in 1997 after he realized that song-making was a far more cost-effective means of storytelling than film-making. The first three Casiotone for the Painfully Alone albums were made using only battery operated keyboards and electronics recorded to 4-track cassette. Claustrophobic two-minute character studies shuddered with reverbed beats, blown-out chords, and simple but infectous melodies, all layered beneath Ashworth's sometimes funny but always heartbreaking lyrics. Believing he had taken his self-imposed set of limitations to their logical conclusion, Ashworth expanded his sound with 2006's Etiquette. Etiquette removes the focus from a decidedly utilitarlian aesthetic to a broader production spectrum that finally gives Ashworth's personal, affecting song writing the space it deserves. In collaboration with producers and musicians like Jherek Bischoff (of The Dead Science and Degenerate Art Ensemble) and Jason Quever (The Papercuts and Pan American Recording Studio), the sound of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone has grown to include pianos, organs, strings, flutes, drums, and pedal steel guitars in addition to Ashworth's signature electronics and drum machines. Title: Re: casiotone fo the painfully alone Post by: Turambar on November 07, 2006, 14:45:22 pm Casiotone For The Painfully Alone Young Shields there's a shield around us it's invisible & soundless & we drink too much & fuck too soon smoke cigarettes in rented rooms we quit our jobs & shoot the moon & cut our wrists & sleep til noon there's a shield around us we're invincible & boundless & we're on the run from I don't know we're Patty Hearst & Squeaky Fromme asleep on subways far from home you'd think we'd never seen a comb sent a letter to Mom & Dad Mom & Dad the money's running out got a letter from Mom & Dad they didn't send me anything there's a shield around us we are heady we are groundless & we burn our friends & kill their names build insecure & petty fames & tattoo things that we believe stars & skulls & hearts in half-sleeves there's a shield around us tell me how is it you've found us cause we hide our tracks & watch the ground our footfalls they don't make a sound we've cursed the names of our hometowns we're compassless & nowhere bound sent a letter to Mom & Dad Mom & Dad the money's running out got a letter from Mom & Dad I swear to God they don't get me at all http://teamclermont.com/CFTPA_YoungShields.mp3 Title: Re: casiotone fo the painfully alone Post by: Turambar on November 07, 2006, 14:48:45 pm Casiotone for the Painfully Alone Joins the Foreign Legion should've known that this would end stopped being my friend some thing's just aren't worth mending some messages aren't worth unsending the way you walked past the door oblivious to me writing on the floor from the pain you inflicted and all the pills that the doctor prescripted just don't work anymore they don't work anymore they don't work anymore they don't work anymore it's not the point that i'm at you fucked me up pretty bad now it's all too late you can forward my mail to the state cause i joined the foreign legion joined the foreign legion joined the foreign legion joined the foreign legion joined the foreign legion joined the foreign legion joined the foreign legion Title: Re: casiotone fo the painfully alone Post by: Turambar on November 07, 2006, 15:05:53 pm HALF GHOST you can stand at a show all night somewhere in the back just watching the bands you can try to pretend nothing's wrong & clap for the songs or drive all night for no reason just drive til the tape's done & leave everything to the long long road to take you home or talk on the phone all night & tell the whole story to an answering machine or put everything on a song just put everything on some song on the radio at least a song won't cheat at least a song won't leave Title: Re: casiotone fo the painfully alone Post by: Turambar on November 07, 2006, 15:12:40 pm TO MY MR SMITH hey you walk so slow when the bus doesn't show i guess you've got to think somemore before you get home but hey the night is cold & that jacket's so old that the chill comes in through the holes why don't you stop in on your way if there's something that you want to say you don't have to keep it inside hey, you say your days go by so slow do you think i don't know it's the same for everyone in this whole town Title: Re: casiotone fo the painfully alone Post by: Turambar on November 07, 2006, 15:18:24 pm YOU NEVER CALL & we've all but lost our chance for a summertime romance i watched the days slip into fall & you still won't return my calls maybe you'd like to go to a show please just call me and let me know when you finally get home i'll be waiting by the phone i know it must seem quite obscene all these calls on your machine but you've left me with no choice & all your roommates know my voice Title: Re: casiotone fo the painfully alone Post by: Turambar on November 07, 2006, 15:49:20 pm CALLOUSED FINGERS WON'T MAKE YOU STRONG EDITH WONG a studio apartment somewhere new somewhere far away from here how does it feel are you lonesome now you've got first chair but a broken heart won't mend when your cello's your only friend it doesn't matter what they're paying you edith wong when you're sitting in the spotlight a standing ovation every night does it occur to you that something isn't right & when you're kissing someone new but you know that your heart's not through with the last boy do you say to yourself this'll do you can hide in the cinema you've got the money to spend but the movies always end & then it's your life again you can practice all day long until the notes are perfect but your heart's all wrong calloused fingers won't make you strong edith wong Title: Re: casiotone fo the painfully alone Post by: meltemi on November 07, 2006, 16:06:01 pm ωω :) |