Casiotone for the Painfully Alone isn’t about to change his moniker, but maybe everything else behind it. The once solo electronic musician Owen Ashworth (born of Redwood City, CA) has committed to a full-band for his latest record Vs. Children (Tomlab), and is on the road performing in both past and present styles. The tour [...]
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Owen Ashworth, the tall quiet dude behind Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, knows a thing or two about playing music for people in rock clubs - he does it a lot, both on this continent as well as Europe, and he's going to be doing it for a very extended period of time this summer. Some of June, and all of July will find CFTPA in a sweaty van, drinking gas station water, and sitting around doin...
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Casiotone For the Painfully Alone, a.k.a. Owen Ashworth, will release two separate records in the next two months. The first of the two, Advance Base Battery Life, is a collection of B-sides and rarities from Ashworth's back catalog, set for release on March 10. It will include tracks from both older 7-inches and more recent projects, including the Bruce Springsteen tribute record he did with h...
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Our favorite Chicago singer, songwriter, beat-maker, and general teddy bear, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, has announced himself a new collection of songs for us to purchase on compact disc. The album will be available on March 10th, (my birthday! Send Amazon gift cards.) and is a collection of b-sides, unreleased material, remixes, etc collected from 2004-2007. It's a pretty exclusive aff...
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New Treatise on the Treatment of Agoraphobia In attempting to rid oneself of the painful loneliness and draining anxiety often associated with moderate-to-severe Agoraphobia, it is of utmost importance that one begin simply. One must devise a certain activity that possesses the, shall I say, "malleability" so as to have the preordained characteristic of growth from distractingly intense inward ...
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Things have changed in Owen Ashworth’s world. The low-tech joy of beeping keyboards that his listeners are familiar with are absent from his latest release, replaced by the fuller sound of pianos, mellotrons and organs. As if to signify this, the record opens with a cascade of rolling harps, different samples melded together into a…
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Owen Ashworth aka Casiotone For The Painfully Alone came onto stage armed with a multitude of instruments - all of which were unoccupied. The first part of his show Ashworth occupies the gaping Central Stage by himself, using his baritone voice to good effect, but it's not until the rest of his backing band appear that Casiotone really break out into a sweat.
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Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, the one-man band also known as Owen Ashworth, has crafted a lush, evocative album on Vs. Children. Although there is a solemn tone that pops up throughout, Asworth's vivid stories draw the listener into the simple beats and melodies and create a world of characters reminiscent of early Asylum era Tom Waits. The songs are filled with loss, betrayal and game pla...
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I’ve always been a big fan of Ashworth’s music under Casiotone for the Painfully Alone. It’s been interesting seeing the evolution of his music from simple bedroom recordings of him with a 4-track and his keyboard, to full band, fully produced albums. His newest album, Vs. Children, is released today and I’m excited for everyone [...]
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Music is like a box of chocolates. Some of it is exquisitely produced with intense attention to detail, and then you have the 'mis-shapes' brand, the stuff sold cheaply which form all manner of factory errors from the comical to the slightly terrifying.
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I hate that name. I haaate it. It's the ultimate "sad-loser-in-his-bedroom-playing-plinky-plonky-music-on-his-keyboard-in-the-dark" stage name. Totally emo. Pity then, that Owen Ashworth's music is mostly sublime and not at as depressing as the name suggests (only just). If you know his album Etiquette (and if you don't get it), you'll know what to expect: melancholy-tinged, synth-led story [...]
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Although the output of Casiotone For The Painfully Alone has largely been an aesthetic exercise in the power of quiet harshness and the conflicts therein, one might expect that an EP format might be a chance to experiment with sounds
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The last thing one wants after the fact is too much information. So goes a song that illustrates by example the lesson it preaches in the end (way down below).Chapped lips. Tongue, kissed.[Insert expletive] fluids of a summer night.With slight duress, forced imperativesfind me quoting Pennington.A delicate blend of sweat and menstrual bloodseeping into trampled grass.On one hand, the original b...
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**The walk of shame** refers to any phenomenon in which a person has to take a walk in front of strangers (In some cases the roomates of the person she or he slept with.) or peers for an embarrassing reason before reaching a place of privacy. Most commonly, it occurs the morning after a night out at a bar, dance club, or party. People undertaking the walk of shame are understood to have spent t...
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Have you ever heard a song that just seems to hit too close to home to not be about you. You begin to think, "Was Britt Daniel hiding in the bushes when I had that fight with my girlfriend?" "Was Elliott Smith watching me at the bar that night?" Did Huey Lewis run off with that girl I was dancing with at the party? Bastard! Probably not. It's just the Human Condition. Shit happens to songwriter...
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