Monday, 28 April 2008Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - OIB records Casiotone for the Painfully Alone Label: OIB Records Quantity Pressed: 1,200 (200 X blue vinyl, 500 X clear vinyl, 500 X black vinyl) Release Date: 5th May 2008 Track Listing 1. Ice Cream Truck 2. Town Topic (instrumental) 3. I Love Creedence (instrumental) 4. Green Cotton Sweater (version) Renowned video artist Laurel Nakadate worked with Owen Ashworth of Casiotone to score her new film 'Stay the same never Change'. Ice Cream Truck, the first track on this EP, utilizes a simple preprogrammed machine rhythm all equalized into pure treble audible at the lowest volume. A echoed melody based on the maddening repetitive ice cream truck song on every corner is the only other accopanyment to Owen's distorted sleepy vocals. Filmed in Kansas city, stay the same never change used non professional actors and examines lonliness and voyerism in suburbia, a perfect fit for Casiotone for the Painfully Alone's hauntingly innocent pop. I love this idea of stripping away all the musical choices you have in the world, all the instruments and limiting yourself to just one, the casio SK-1. You know... the keyboard that had a sample button and you got one for christmas when you were 12. It makes perfect sense trying to make something great out of nothing, conjuring up real magic out of the simplest device. Not even consumer level equipment, barely one step above a toy, taking it seriously and forcing greatness out of next to nothing. That is the true test of greatness, there's no tricks, nothing to fall back on, create the parameters to work within to push yourself and the sound. Owen Ashworth has been performing this pop alchemy for just about a decade, slowly expanding on the harsh cheapness of this starting point and combines all of this with distortion, and deadpan underwater vocals. It's an uncomfortable ride of sweet sadness, and definitely worth searching out as another gem in a long list of Casiotone's amazing seven inch releases. Labels: casiotone for the painfully alone, OIB records
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