#Gavin Castleton

[apocalypsewolfmusic]

Tape 101: Save Who You Can Save (February 2023)

Mixed by AMBY.

Inspired by The Last Of Us.

Daughter - The End Gavin Castleton - The Onslaught Alice - End Of Times Depeche Mode - Fly On The Windscreen I:Scintilla - Drag Along Anaïs Mitchell - Why We Build The Wall Innerpartysystem - This Town Your Grave Seeming - The Burial (Aaimon Mix) Phoebe Bridgers - Killer HEALTH - DECIMATION

[burlveneer-music]

Blue Cranes - Voices - jazz quintet collaborates with singers on new album

Portland jazz ensemble Blue Cranes has long established itself as a forward-thinking entity. The quintet, made up of Reed Wallsmith on alto saxophone, Joe Cunningham on tenor saxophone, Rebecca Sanborn on keyboards, Jon Shaw on bass, and Ji Tanzer on drums, is steeped in the history and sound of the artists that came before them, but too curious and creative to simply replicate the past. Blue Cranes wants to explore.

A key aspect of Voices is how Blue Cranes were able to blend elements of improvisation into the songwriting process and the structures of these songs. Opening track “Brave Little Girl” was created entirely in the moment, including singer Holland Andrews extemporizing their vocal turn using key phrases plucked from a poem by Nico Alvarado. And the song “Ursula” was built around stream-of-consciousness singing from Laura Gibson. She initially sang some lines as a reaction to a bounding saxophone melody from Cunningham and Wallsmith, and then the group created an entirely new song structure to match Gibson’s vocals, pulling in The Devil Makes Three’s Cooper McBean on banjo. The resulting combination is intoxicating and spiritually uplifting. In and around all of these rich mixes by Grammy award-winning producer/jazz bassist Todd Sickafoose is broken beat noir featuring Nils Frahm collaborator Peter Broderick; a touch of neo-soul anchored by the croon of Redray Frazier with the fluid rhythms of Blue Cranes’ Ji Tanzer and Jon Shaw; the four-part harmonies of looping artist Gavin Castleton careening into John Zorn-esque instrumental explosions; and a nostalgic tale by Black Prairie’s Annalisa Tornfelt featuring mournful string arrangements.

[happenstancememes]

Expensive Love by Gavin Castleton

Dogs are beautiful and expensive when sick, but I'll try all I can to give you a good life 🥹

I love u narrative songs 💖💖💖

[ryanlewisandclark]

90 East by Gavin Castleton

Video description:

A live, single take, looped performance of the song 90 East by Gavin Castleton. Footage is black and white, grainy, and shot with multiple handheld cameras, which move frenetically in the space and focus on Gavin and his musical equipment. Gavin is at a table with multiple synths and electric pianos and audio equipment. The space is unspecific, wooden floors with a rug where Gavin performs, brick walls, a pair of potted plants in the window over Gavin’s shoulder.

Gavin begins, recording loops. A beatbox pattern. A piano pattern that walks somberly downward. A toy piano’s staccato. A pair of vocal harmonies. We see him trigger the looper with his foot between patterns.

Gavin adjusts the mix, standing up and increasing the low end, and the volume of the harmonies. He checks the mic.

As he begins the lyrics, the video changes to burned out color, cutting more rapidly and following Gavin’s performance at the table.

Gavin performs.

Lyrics:

After a show one night

I drove five hours to the next town

All dark highway in front of me

My headlights

Two lances breaking through upstate New York

Everything that was quiet during the show was beginning to make its voice heard:

Hot sweat to cold.

Loose neck to stiff.

Contention to bitterness.

Sensibility to the absurd.

I whitewashed every word.

Only an overload of frustration could have kept me awake that long,

I could’ve either

turned us into traffic or

I coulda turned this into a song.

And I was bearing down on the road,

With two fists high up on the wheel,

Bitching out everybody in my head

Bitterness caking over bitterness

Unsalvageable soured career

Focusing in the sober night stare.

In such a bad Hollywood way

The pitch black I was ripping through

Was so obviously a metaphor for despair.

I started thinking I’d be a driver for life.

I’d learn to steer in my sleep.

All the fuel pumps in all the truck stops on all the highways would whisper my name.

Me,

Crosser of Double Yellow Lines,

Liberator of Two Lanes.

Had my thoughts been typed out

They would have read like the minutes of a Tourette’s convention.

My passengers

Wouldn’t be sleeping so soundly

If they knew what kind of thoughts were banging around in the front seat.

I was taking offense at the slightest bathroom stop.

I had all my captors profiled and mapped out.

Nobody could surprise me.

Anything anyone did the were predestined to do,

Nothing shocking

Nothing new.

This was 90 East and we were far from home.

It was the most dangerous way to travel.

After a show

With your best friends asleep

And nothing but surrender and yellow lines to keep you company

I searched the cell phone for long distance relief:

“What’s the number for the Dysfunctional Band Hotline?”

“Is this what an abused wife sounds like when she won’t leave her man?”

Redundant.

Relapse-ical.

Hollow.

Resolved.

My girl was outta town

I couldn’t get a softy on the phone

So I camped out on the bus.

I wished everybody would leave me alone.

Wished somebody woulda asked me what was wrong.

Sometimes what is actually an attempt

To spread the grief thin

Will appear to be an effort

To bring a crowd in,

Of course I don’t have enough friends to make my grief sound minuscule

And I’m not in an emo band so I can’t make whining sound cool, but

My girl’s good about it

She lets me complain

Retell the same frustrations manifesting in different situations

Over and over

I have enough torment for the both of us.

It’s some skewed, sexist relationship;

Instead of bacon I provide chafing.

Only an Angel

Would open the door to let an earthquake in.

Only an earthquake would expect the world to listen.

As the lyrics finish, the video fades back to black and white, Gavin sits back at the electric piano. He plays and harmonizes over the looping pattern that has been repeating the entire time. The cuts in footage slow down and layer as the song fades. As the song fades down, the color fades back into the footage and we hear the rhythmic sound of the keys being played in the space.

End video description.

[blancmangeinakilt]

Guest | Gavin Castleton

I watched the knife go in as you ground your hips // You told him all your life you had loved like this

[nofatclips]

Blame Paradise by The Dear Hunter from the album All Is As All Should Be - Produced and directed by Erez Bader & Casey Crescenzo

[t3rra-bull]

Archaeologist - Odysseys EP [full stream]

“AVAILABLE NOW ON BANDCAMP: https://archaeologist.bandcamp.com/al... PHYSICALS + MERCH: https://archaeologist.bandcamp.com/merch Sojourner (feat. Yvette Young) - 0:00 Vesuvius (feat. Chris Lee) - 7:05 Sunbreaker (feat. Sithu Aye) - 13:18 Archipelago - 16:57 Radiate - 21:08 Noctivigant (feat. Gad Gidon) - 22:15 Quiver (feat. Gavin Castleton) - 26:05 "Odysseys" was an unplanned departure from the path I had set for Archaeologist. I saw this EP as an opportunity to try new things, work with new people, and challenge my regular process - I hope you all enjoy the result! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Video by Nick Acker https://www.facebook.com/nick.acker.792 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ciro Abraham - drums Lorenzo Madrid - bass Kyle Schaefer - guitars + extras Produced by Kyle Schaefer and Ciro Abraham at Fortress Recording https://www.facebook.com/fortressreco... Mastered by Nathan Kane http://www.nathan-kane.com/ Artwork and design by Lorraine Green Contact: lorrainegreen123@gmail.com Guest appearances by: Yvette Young (Covet) - violin and guitar on Sojourner https://yvetteyoung.bandcamp.com/ Chris Lee (Kinetik) - guitar solo on Vesuvius https://kinetikmetal.bandcamp.com/ http://www.indlessproductions.com/ Sithu Aye - guitar solo on Sunbreaker https://sithuayemusic.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/SithuAyeMusic/ Gad Gidon (The Last Of Lucy) - guitar solo on Noctivigant https://www.facebook.com/thelastofluc... Gavin Castleton (The Dear Hunter) - piano, keys and synth solo on Quiver http://gavincastleton.com/ All songs written by Kyle Schaefer https://kyleschaefer.bandcamp.com/ Follow Archaeologist: https://www.facebook.com/Archaeologis... https://www.instagram.com/kyle_archae...”

[arispect]

FUTURECASTLE, by Daniel Orren

Soda Bar, San Diego

[gavincastleton]

These are times of ever rising temperature. Seems like everyone wants change, in some form or another, right now, but we can’t seem to agree on how to break the fever, or what causes it (or if it even exists). Do we sweat it out? Do we ice it down? I don’t know. I always thought of this song as journalistic—the observation of something so spiritually foul that the mind rejects it, rendering only a still life of something distant and natural. I share that alien perspective when I watch the endless parade of murder footage in my feeds, and the unfathomable acquittals that always follow. “This is not my beautiful house. How did I get here? My God! What have I done?” I feel sick with powerlessness… sicker still when I comprehend the far greater magnitude of powerlessness that the victims must have felt in that brief broadcasted moment of mortal injustice. We can do so much better.

[heavyenglish]

East coast! Thrilled to be playing a few shows on the FUTURECASTLE tour, opening for musical Voltron Rare Futures x Gavin Castleton! All tickets available at intheclouds.io 🌵 6/8 - Philadelphia @ Kung Fu Necktie 🌵 6/9 - Baltimore @ Metro Gallery 🌵 6/10 - NYC @ Studio at Webster Hall

[blancmangeinakilt]

24, & 26-28 for the weird ask! 💝 happy easter to you too!! 💚🐣🐰

24. Favorite crystal? Rose quartz! That counts right? I love the pink!

26. Favorite activity in warm weather? Going to the beach and/or swimming. I love the saltwater 🏊‍♀️

27. Favorite activity in cold weather? This one is hard because I don't like leaving the house if it's too cold 🥶 I do like to go for walks when it's snowing. I love the quiet hush when it's snowing, it's so peaceful!

28. Five songs to describe you

I can't think of songs that describe me so I'll do a list of more aspirational/aesthetically pleasing/favorite songs:

1. Grace Cathedral Hill by The Decemberists

2. Last Chance to Evacuate Planet Earth Before it is Recycled by Porcupine Tree

3. Exorcise Me by Gavin Castleton

4. 40 Mark Strasse by The Shins

5. Spirit by Ghost

Thanks for the ask Becca! ����

[tiberius-watson]

Gavin Castleton - Swim Good (cover)

that's a pretty big trunk on my Lincoln town car ain't it big enough to take these broken hearts and put em in it.. now I'm driving round on the boulevard, trunk bleeding and every time the cops pull me over they don't ever see them they never see them and I've got this black suit on roaming around like I'm ready for a funeral I got 5 more miles 'til the road runs out {how can this feel so right... now} I'm about to drive in the ocean I'm about to swim from something bigger than me kick off my shoes and swim good and swim good take off this suit and swim good and swim good good got some mediocre beats on this 808 CD, yeah memory seats I'm sitting on stay heated and I would've put tints on the windows but what's the difference? I'm feeling like a ghost (no Swayze) ever since I lost my baby and now I got this black suit on I'm rolling around like I'm ready for a funeral I got one more mile 'til the road runs out I'm about to drive in the ocean I'm about to swim from something bigger than me kick off my shoes and swim good and swim good take off this suit and swim good and swim good I'm going out (oh my pretty love) don't try stopping me I'm going out (throw me a line) don't try to save me (you broke my heart) I got no flares (you broke my heart) I got no vest (prove my love) I got no fear the waves are washing me out... I'm about to drive in the ocean I'm about to swim from something bigger than me take off my shoes and swim good and swim good take off this suit and swim good and swim good good 

[t3rra-bull]

Listen/purchase: Odysseys EP by Archaeologist