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Advance Base (formerly Casiotone For The Painfully Alone)

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0	MANCHESTER: Hey! Manchester @ Night & Day Cafe
P	Thursday 11th July, 2013
N	7:30pm

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Advance Base is the new musical project by Chicago, Illinois singer, songwriter and producer Owen Ashworth (formerly of Casiotone For The Painfully Alone).

A Shut-In’s Prayer is Ashworth’s first full-length release in over three years, and his first under the name Advance Base. Recorded at home and 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 and ballads. Released in 2012, it was voted #19 on Mojo Magazine’s Best Albums of that year.

Accompanying himself on his Rhodes 54 electric piano, Ashworth sings nostalgic stories about lost loves, childhood friends, estranged siblings and hard feelings over simple drum machine rhythms & spare percussion. The additional arrangements that fill out these ten songs intertwine gentle upright piano melodies and expansive electric bass, filling the spaces between plainly-sung harmony vocals and strummed autoharp 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 and idiosyncratic skill as a lyricist have only improved in recent years, pushing his memorable songwriting in all new directions. At age 35, Ashworth has a lot of music left in him, and he’s just getting started again.

Advance Base’s new EP, The World Is In A Bad Fix Everywhere, will be out in late June 2013 on Orindal Records.