Advance Base + I Know I Have No Collar
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Sun 7 July 2013 // 20:00
(Sunday 7 July / 8pm / £6 advance, £8 on the door)
We're super excited to welcome (back) Advance Base, the new musical project by Chicago, Illinois singer, songwriter, & producer Owen Ashworth (formerly of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone).
This tour celebrates A Shut-In's Prayer, Ashworth's first full-length release in over three years, & his first under the name Advance Base. Recorded at home & in piano practice rooms at the Chicago Public Library, A Shut-In's Prayer is an intimate collection of deliberately crafted but decidedly lo-fi torch songs, waltzes & ballads.
Accompanying himself on his Rhodes 54 electric piano, Ashworth sings nostalgic stories about lost loves, childhood friends, estranged siblings, & hard feelings over simple drum machine rhythms & spare percussion. The additional arrangements that fill out these ten songs intertwine gentle upright piano melodies & expansive electric bass, filling the spaces between plainly-sung harmony vocals & strummed auto-harp chords, with the occasional creaking floorboard or snapping reverb spring to remind you of the cramped rooms where this album was recorded.
It's a different sound than one might expect from the dude from Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, but Ashworth's keen ear for melody & idiosyncratic skill as a lyricist have only improved in recent years, pushing his memorable song writing in all new directions. At age 35, Ashworth has a lot of music left in him, & he's just getting started again.
Website: http://www.advancebasemusic.com
Music: http://soundcloud.com/advance-base
Video "Summer Music": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EouoRCvg9EE
Support comes from I Know I Have No Collar, Bristol's beloved ramshackle lo-fi popsters with a knack for sing-along songs... catch this rare show while Aaron is back from Japan!
http://iknowihavenocollar.co.uk
We're super excited to welcome (back) Advance Base, the new musical project by Chicago, Illinois singer, songwriter, & producer Owen Ashworth (formerly of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone).
This tour celebrates A Shut-In's Prayer, Ashworth's first full-length release in over three years, & his first under the name Advance Base. Recorded at home & in piano practice rooms at the Chicago Public Library, A Shut-In's Prayer is an intimate collection of deliberately crafted but decidedly lo-fi torch songs, waltzes & ballads.
Accompanying himself on his Rhodes 54 electric piano, Ashworth sings nostalgic stories about lost loves, childhood friends, estranged siblings, & hard feelings over simple drum machine rhythms & spare percussion. The additional arrangements that fill out these ten songs intertwine gentle upright piano melodies & expansive electric bass, filling the spaces between plainly-sung harmony vocals & strummed auto-harp chords, with the occasional creaking floorboard or snapping reverb spring to remind you of the cramped rooms where this album was recorded.
It's a different sound than one might expect from the dude from Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, but Ashworth's keen ear for melody & idiosyncratic skill as a lyricist have only improved in recent years, pushing his memorable song writing in all new directions. At age 35, Ashworth has a lot of music left in him, & he's just getting started again.
Website: http://www.advancebasemusic.com
Music: http://soundcloud.com/advance-base
Video "Summer Music": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EouoRCvg9EE
Support comes from I Know I Have No Collar, Bristol's beloved ramshackle lo-fi popsters with a knack for sing-along songs... catch this rare show while Aaron is back from Japan!
http://iknowihavenocollar.co.uk