NEWS: Caspian Unveil New Song/Video via Consequence of Sound; North American Tour Begins
Oct. 20, 2016, Beverly, Mass. – Caspian, the Massachusetts instrumentalists whose most recent release, Dust & Disquiet has been described as “the life-affirming soundtrack you need in your life” (Noisey), have created a short film to accompany the release of their new song, “Castles High, Marble Bright.” The 11-minute clip is available now via Consequence of Sound (http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/10/caspian-premiere-breathtaking-video-for-new-song-castles-high-marble-bright-watch/).
“The time has finally come to introduce you to some new CASPIAN music,” says Caspian guitar player Philip Jamieson. “’Castles High, Marble Bright’ was conceived, written and recorded alongside the collection of songs that would become Dust and Disquiet, an album that we hoped spoke to the dialogue between a newly found, furrow browed melancholy and the fractured but unbroken sense of stubbornly epic, dramatically determined optimism that we've been trying to emulate with our music for 12 years. Hopefully we captured a bit of both. Looking back it feels like we captured the former, but ‘Castles...’ speaks exclusively and entirely to the latter. With the end of this album cycle vaguely coming into sight, ‘Castles High, Marble Bright’ is now our North Star, our way home, and our celebration of the decision to fully embrace the above dialogue head on together and see what comes. To the six of us, it’s an ode to adventure and all we hope is that it compliments or inspires one inside of you. Speaking of adventure, we brought our friend Ryan Mackfall (Live at the Larcom) along with us on our recent European tour last August to capture the experience visually. Ryan has produced an absolutely gorgeous, powerful, truly epic portrait of what the tour felt like. We are thrilled to premiere ‘Castles High, Marble Bright’ alongside this short film.”
The single is available as a limited edition pressing of 1,000 on 8-inch vinyl via Caspianmerch.com and digitally via Bandcamp (caspiantheband.bandcamp.com), iTunes and streaming services such as Spotify and Apple Music. You can stream both songs on Soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/triplecrownrecords/sets/caspian-castleshighmarblebright/s-3ntBb). The b-side, a song titled “127 North,” was described by Jamieson as “the sound of 6 guys playing in a room together on a Friday afternoon, and is in some ways the least ambitious thing we've ever committed to tape. Free from the grip of over arrangement, overdubs, click tracks, excessive chin stroking and the like, "127 North" is what a Caspian song sometimes sounds like in its infancy.”
“Castles High, Marble Bright” arrives as the band launches a North American tour with the first date of the month long tour happening this Saturday, Oct. 22 at the Rock and Roll Hotel in Washington, D.C.
Caspian tour dates (all U.S. dates with The Appleseed Cast as support):
October 22 Washington, DC Rock and Roll Hotel
October 23 Raleigh, NC King’s
October 24 Atlanta, GA The Masquerade (Hell)
October 25 Nashville, TN The High Watt
October 27 Houston, TX The Studio at Warehouse Live
October 28 Austin, TX The Sidewinder
October 30 Phoenix, AZ The Rebel Lounge
November 1 Los Angeles, CA Teragram Ballroom
November 2 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall
November 4 Portland, OR Mississippi Studios
November 5 Seattle, WA Neumos
November 8 Salt Lake City, UT Urban Lounge
November 9 Denver, Co Marquis Theater
November 11 Omaha, NE The Waiting Room
November 12 St. Louis, MO The Firebird
November 13 Chicago, IL Lincoln Hall
November 14 Grand Rapids, MI The Pyramid Scheme
November 15 Toronto, ON Lee’s Palace
November 16 Philadelphia, PA Union Transfer
November 17 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg
November 18 Boston, MA Royale
November 19 Montreal, QC Bar Le Ritz
Dust and Disquiet, produced by Matt Bayles (Isis, Mastodon, Minus The Bear), was released late last fall with Noisey saying the atmospheric band’s music is “the life-affirming soundtrack you need in your life” and Brooklyn Vegan proclaiming, “eardrums will be blown, and jaws will be dropped.” Caspian most recently toured North America in support of Underoath.
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