| |
Casale's instrumental cross-style fusion music
Good morning. If does happen to be morning-time, please skip the next paragraph.
Just kidding, I know it is actually the afternoon, evening or night. Good respective time of day to you, sir. I hope you don't mind that for my introduction to my website I'm pretty much just writing the first thing that enters my curiously small head.
This website is here so that people can download my music and subsequently listen to it (optional). Having listened to the music, feel free to enjoy it, but no pressure. If you enjoy it, maybe even suggest it to your friends, assuming you have friends. Imaginary friends don't count, unless they do, in which case they do.
Feel free to listen to demos of each track. Full tracks are MP3s of 256kbps quality, which makes an imperceivable difference in quality. You can buy them for 99 cents each, which goes towards me! Given the ridiculous amount of time I put into each track, I think it's worth it. Hopefully one day someone will buy a song! I vow to use my first 99 cents to buy myself a life.
UPDATE 04 JULY 2010:
Some people are buying my music! This is a very strange yet pleasant thought for me, having made silly yet awesome songs since I was an eccentric child with piano access. I didn't really think anyone else would like my odd-sounding songs! Because people pay for the songs by paypal, I can see the name of each person that buys a song and which song they bought. Thanks, my friends!
Tracks
(Sorted chronologically, newest first)
| BREATHE |
 Listen |
|
 Breathe is a complex song, and I don't say that lightly. For me this song is about "swimming" so to speak. Back in the days when I used to go down to the beach and swim out as far as possible then just wait in the water, where you can only hear water and your own heart beat. It's fun, until someone pointed out how dangerous it was. Pish posh! I told them between slurps of my delicious pumpkin soup. Pish posh. I'll not let idle threats like death by drowning stop me doing my ridiculous swimming challenges! Have a listen.
Artwork by Danji-Isthmus |
| RAIN AS WE WAKE |
Listen |
|
 Rapid-fire base-remix sequel to the track "Rain as we Sleep". I don't think this song is that bad, in fact I quite like it. But that doesn't mean you have to, because as the saying goes, always judge a book by its cover. We interrupt this news broadcast to bring you back to the topic at hand: what this song is about. As always it can be about whatever you want. For me, this song is about reversal of perspective.
Artwork by Tines
|
| SERIAL KILLER |
Listen |
|
 Have you seen Dexter? It's a television programme. It's about a guy who is a serial killer but he only kills bad people who the law can't touch for whatever reason. It has a pretty good theme song that uses strings etc. This is a cover of the original song by Daniel Licht. I've used the classic combination of electric guitars and ragtime pianner with a buzzing bassline and semi-dubstep beat. If that doesn't sound like a classic combination it's because it isn't.
Artwork by Tines |
| LUCID |
Listen |
|
 While making my short video on lucid dreaming for Becky's website World-of-Lucid-Dreaming.com I needed a nice piece of music I could use without getting sued. I started by writing a kind of clunky piano piece in a hurried kind of way, but then I got tired so I went to bed. The next morning, before waking up, I had a small lucid dream during which I decided to compose a song on a piano made out of pure energy and light. That's right, this song was written while I was asleep. It was actually about ten times as long but I couldn't remember all of it. After I woke up, I hopped on the piano and started working out how to play the song, and I established as much of it as I could remember. Lucid is a strange song, amen.
Artwork by Tines |
| SHELTIES |
Listen |
|
 Shelties are dogs, of which I coreside with two, named Mr Howard Woofington-Moon and Mr Piper Woofington-Moon (they are brothers). This is a short piano piece about these dogs and was written specially for a short video I made for Becky's birthday, called "The first year of the brothers Woofington-Moon." The video was essentially 150 various photos of our dogs in rapid succession, with the music playing in the foreground. Foreground!
Artwork by Casale |
| BOUNCER |
Listen |
|
 Bouncer is a stange hybrid of reggae and drum&bass. It is supposed to be about that "bouncy" feeling you get at the beach when everything is going well and you have things to look forward to later on. This is not meant to be about a bouncer, ie, a person who stands at a door to a club or bar and tells people to go away when they don't have matching shoes. Snobs. Who are they to decide what is considered "appropriate"? I'll wear as many hats and as few shoes as I like!
Artwork by Tines |
| SLEEPER |
Listen |
|
 Careful of this one. Very carefully made after I was tricked into taking some herbal sleeping pills prior to a long-haul flight across the world. Best sleeping pills ever, was not able to sleep, so I sat in a barely-cognitive state and wrote this song about my dogs, who I hadn't seen for a month and very much missed. Man I missed those dogs. If this track in any way conveys the feeling of "missing your dog" then I consider it a success. Like all my tracks, this is what this song is about for me - you can attribute whatever suits you.
Artwork by Casale
|
About Casale
At risk of sounding even more pretentious by referring to himself in the third person perspective, Casale is basically just some guy who plays some instruments and makes some songs of his own. Casale started playing the piano when he was, erm, 5? Something like that. He's played the piano for as long as he can remember.
He also plays the guitar, bass guitar and drums at a level of skill he describes as "competence-curious". He mixes and masters all his songs on the computer, using a edgy combination of software, trial and error, and accidental "I don't know how I did that but it sounds cool so I'll leave it" moments, on which he relies heavily.
|
