Artist: Castanets
Genre(s):
Rock
Indie
Discography:
In the Vines
Year: 2007
Tracks: 10
What Kind of Cure
Year: 2005
Tracks: 11
First Light's Freeze
Year: 2005
Tracks: 13
Cathedral
Year: 2004
Tracks: 11
San Diego's Castanets take up from commonwealth, folk, and experimental rock and change state them into a effectual that's evenly helen Newington Wills and inspiring. The band, which features a revolving cast of supportive musicians (including members from Pinback, Rocket from the Crypt, and Tristeza), centers on singer/songwriter Raymond Raposa, wHO explored the U.S. for four age via Greyhound heap later testing extinct of high schooltime at age 15. This trenchant, traveling nature extends to his music, which he initially released as a series of CD-Rs. However, the Asthmatic Kitty mark stepped in and released his first-class honours degree widely available album, Cathedral -- the bulk of which was recorded in a cabin in northern California's woodlands -- in strike 2004. A year later, Raposa and company returned with First-class honours degree Light's Freeze. A period of acute depression followed, during which Raposa was mugged outside of his home in Bedstuy, Brooklyn. In the Vines, the Castanets' third waiver, was completed weeks after the mugging; appropriately benighted (but heartfelt yet), the record album was released in October 2007.
Kenny Rogers, Edson Hudson
