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Foggy Notions presents
CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE
(Full band show)
+ Concern
+ Fiasco, Fiesta
Whelan’s, April 19
Tickets €14 plus booking fee from WAV / City Discs / Tickets.ie Ticketmaster
“In expanding his musical palette from minimal battery-powered electronics to include strings, flutes, tabla and pedal-steel, Ashworth has lost none of his miniaturist's eye for detail.” – Observer Music Monthly
“Unbearably tragic beauty…” – Plan B
"Supplementing the dry wit which has made him a cult figure with strings, flutes, pedal steel..." - Mojo ****
"The biologically unfeasible love-child of Smog and the Pet Shop Boys." -Sunday Telegraph
From Kraftwerk to Leonard Cohen, The Smiths to Suicide, and Pet Shop Boys to Smog, Chicago, Illinois, one-man musical army Owen Ashworth a.k.a Casiotone for the Painfully Alone has been bracketed with all manner of illustrious names in the course of his eleven year career. He’s returning to Whelan’s this April, with a full band, performing songs from new album, Vs. Children.
Hot on the heels of the recently released singles and rarities compilation Advance Base Battery Life, comes Vs. Children, the fifth album proper by CFTPA. Ashworth continues the trajectory of 2006's Etiquette, which showed him straying from the strictly electronic instrumentation of his earlier recordings. In fact, Vs. Children is an album decidedly absent of the battery-powered keyboards of CFTPA’s name-sake. Instead, Vs. Children’s arrangements are built largely on the sounds of piano, organ, Mellotron, and acoustic percussion, both live and sampled.
Despite Vs. Children 's many guest musicians and a noticeable shift in instrumentation, CFTPA has succeeded to make a fifth album that feels just as warm and intimate as the first.
Ashworth has also been quietly releasing a steady stream of new tracks by way of limited edition vinyl singles for a number of small labels, meanwhile remixing songs for friends like Dudley Benson and Headlights, and contributing music to several independent American films, such as Medicine for Melancholy and Stay the Same Never Change.
Check out his YouTube sensation “White Corolla” which inspired an animated video by London illustrator Julia Pott.
Ashworth will be joined on stage by Tyson Thurston (Magical, Beautiful), Gordon Ashworth (Concern) will trade off on piano, baritone guitar, and lap steel guitar, Nick Tamburro (The Dead Science) will play the drums, and Owen will be taking care of vocals and organ.
Owen will be performing both a solo electronic set and a full band set.
Vs. Children will be out on Tomlab on 6th April 2009
www.cftpa.org
CONCERN
Concern is the solo musical endeavor of Gordon Ashworth (also known for the project Oscillating Innards), based in Portland, Oregon. Using acoustic instruments in unorthodox, highly resonant methods, Concern builds tonally rich and subtly detailed compositions. Influenced by the forces of forgetting, worry and familiarity, this is music intended to reveal the highly emotional and delicate potentials that exist within acoustic tones, obscured fidelity and minimal harmonies.
www.myspace.com/nostophilia
FIASCO, FIESTA
www.myspace.com/fiascofiesta
CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE
(Full band show)
+ Concern
+ Fiasco, Fiesta
Whelan’s, April 19
Tickets €14 plus booking fee from WAV / City Discs / Tickets.ie Ticketmaster
“In expanding his musical palette from minimal battery-powered electronics to include strings, flutes, tabla and pedal-steel, Ashworth has lost none of his miniaturist's eye for detail.” – Observer Music Monthly
“Unbearably tragic beauty…” – Plan B
"Supplementing the dry wit which has made him a cult figure with strings, flutes, pedal steel..." - Mojo ****
"The biologically unfeasible love-child of Smog and the Pet Shop Boys." -Sunday Telegraph
From Kraftwerk to Leonard Cohen, The Smiths to Suicide, and Pet Shop Boys to Smog, Chicago, Illinois, one-man musical army Owen Ashworth a.k.a Casiotone for the Painfully Alone has been bracketed with all manner of illustrious names in the course of his eleven year career. He’s returning to Whelan’s this April, with a full band, performing songs from new album, Vs. Children.
Hot on the heels of the recently released singles and rarities compilation Advance Base Battery Life, comes Vs. Children, the fifth album proper by CFTPA. Ashworth continues the trajectory of 2006's Etiquette, which showed him straying from the strictly electronic instrumentation of his earlier recordings. In fact, Vs. Children is an album decidedly absent of the battery-powered keyboards of CFTPA’s name-sake. Instead, Vs. Children’s arrangements are built largely on the sounds of piano, organ, Mellotron, and acoustic percussion, both live and sampled.
Despite Vs. Children 's many guest musicians and a noticeable shift in instrumentation, CFTPA has succeeded to make a fifth album that feels just as warm and intimate as the first.
Ashworth has also been quietly releasing a steady stream of new tracks by way of limited edition vinyl singles for a number of small labels, meanwhile remixing songs for friends like Dudley Benson and Headlights, and contributing music to several independent American films, such as Medicine for Melancholy and Stay the Same Never Change.
Check out his YouTube sensation “White Corolla” which inspired an animated video by London illustrator Julia Pott.
Ashworth will be joined on stage by Tyson Thurston (Magical, Beautiful), Gordon Ashworth (Concern) will trade off on piano, baritone guitar, and lap steel guitar, Nick Tamburro (The Dead Science) will play the drums, and Owen will be taking care of vocals and organ.
Owen will be performing both a solo electronic set and a full band set.
Vs. Children will be out on Tomlab on 6th April 2009
www.cftpa.org
CONCERN
Concern is the solo musical endeavor of Gordon Ashworth (also known for the project Oscillating Innards), based in Portland, Oregon. Using acoustic instruments in unorthodox, highly resonant methods, Concern builds tonally rich and subtly detailed compositions. Influenced by the forces of forgetting, worry and familiarity, this is music intended to reveal the highly emotional and delicate potentials that exist within acoustic tones, obscured fidelity and minimal harmonies.
www.myspace.com/nostophilia
FIASCO, FIESTA
www.myspace.com/fiascofiesta
