Joe Cahill: News

The new album, "Eclectic Plastic Factory", shipped to these Digital Stores:
AppleiTunes,
Amazon mp3
Napster
Verizon,
Napster
and
Rhapsody. Stay tuned for more news.Update!
The album has also been delivered to
Spotify , MediaNet and Emusic.

At last the wait is over. my new album, "Eclectic Plastic Factory is available on CDBaby.

www.cdbaby.com/joecahill8

I've devoted the month of October to preparing the Site for our new arrival: "Eclectic Plastic Factiry". There'll be a Media Blitz

Now that my new album is finished, I'm beginning to work out the new songs for the next record. Want to do more keyboard work and maybe less synth, but right now all is just in the planning stages. Some of the song lyrics are already published online and i have some melodies worked out in my head. I'm feeling a more electric Jazz Rock type vibe for next year's album. And something longer than the last two records. Something experimental on a par with Brother Morphine, but not psychedelic in any way. There will be some Punk and New Wave Dance Rock but less techno sounding. More Jazz and less Disco.

Last week, on Thursxday August twenty ninth, we recorded the last two songs for Eclectic Plastic Factory, my new album. The CD is ready for duplication and hope to have it out later this month or early November.

This week its just about time to come down to the finish line. The album gets wrapped up later this week. it should be ready for release in early November or late October. If you're browsing online, you'll read about it.

I'm almost done with the new record and am already putting songs together for the next one. I did my Artist's Walk today and am doing my weekly website update. I have a longer album inside me for next year. And other exciting plans. As I promised in last week's newsletter, things are coming to a crescendo for the is project I'm working on. Keep your eyes open and Look out, I'm comin'!

What I've grasped about songwriting is certain phrases evoke certain keys and intervals. And chords create a distinctive mood. And I can hear a pattern in my music that wasn't there before. You pick up pattterns thru the act of repetition. Before I had to draw on my past knowledge of Jazz and classical music to craft a song. Today, I'm drawing from my own past influences in songwriting. This new album will remind people of Framed. I never thought of drawing from myself before, there weren't enough songs to supply that well of inspiration. Rushing to and from New York has been hectic but the making of the album has been fun. mixing new styles in with the old and doing lots more work on the keyboard wiht piano, organ and synthesizer has been a great help.

Last week, I added a new website to the Links page and today I've updated the music section. There are just two more songs to go on the new album and it's done. On September Fourth, I recorded "Losing Karma' and 'Be My Baby". I'd published the lyrics back in 2009 and have updated info on the songs. Stay tuned to joe Cahill Music, there's more news to come on the album.

We recorded two new songs last Sunday, Sept Fourth, and it's back to the studio on the week of Rosh Shoshana. I can't wait to share the new songs with you and this time, there'll be more of an advertizing push for the record. The reocrd should be online circa early November and the CD might be out earlier than that, maybe just before Halloweeeen. Either way, you'll see it around in the Rock Community.

I'm back online two days after the storm. I heard the wind and rain when it hit landfall in South Jersey and was relieved to wake up at seven thirty and find Irene had departed. Now we put the pesty visitor to bed and my session has been moved up to Labour Day Weekend. I'm glad to be out and around now that it's all over. and am Ready To Rock!

Framed is selling at Medianet. Not just "Black Coffee And Ciagrettes' or "I'm In Too Deep" but all nine tracks!!

TSometimes, I get a phrase in my head and in a few months or in four years, it becomes a song. i can't push it and force it to be born on a certain day, it arrives when it's ready to be a song. And I'll just say to myself, "it's Time for this to be a song now." or, I'll say, "I can write this now, it'll work here on this album." Reading books about writing and creativity help me find the patience to see a project thru, wether it take a week or five years. It takes as long as it takes. I mentioned in my video interview and here on the site that "I'm Waiting took four years to create. i wrote the song first in the summer of 2005 and I put the lyrics away and the rewrote it in December three years later. It ended up on Back In Blue the following spring. It was originally intended for Framed, but I knew it wouldn't be reaedy. Talking Pictures took its place. That year, I had another melody in my head with a tentative title. I put that away and resumed work on it the same time as 'i'm Waiting'. The mystery song became "i keep Trying'. one of my cult songs. Working at am studios has reinvigorated my enthusiasm for the keyboard. And I do almost all the keyboard work on this new album. That feels great.

TSometimes, I get a phrase in my head and in a few months or in four years, it becomes a song. i can't push it and force it to be born on a certain day, it arrives when it's ready to be a song. And I'll just say to myself, "it's Time for this to be a song now." or, I'll say, "I can write this now, it'll work here on this album." Reading books about writing and creativity help me find the patience to see a project thru, wether it take a week or five years. It takes as long as it takes. I mentioned in my video interview and here on the site that "I'm Waiting took four years to create. i wrote the song first in the summer of 2005 and I put the lyrics away and the rewrote it in December three years later. It ended up on Back In Blue the following spring. It was originally intended for Framed, but I knew it wouldn't be reaedy. Talking Pictures took its place. That year, I had another melody in my head with a tentative title. I put that away and resumed work on it the same time as 'i'm Waiting'. The mystery song became "i keep Trying'. one of my cult songs. Working at am studios has reinvigorated my enthusiasm for the keyboard. And I do almost all the keyboard work on this new album. That feels great.

People still love the old songs. The Enduring hits on Rhapsody are:
"Fantasia", "Biker Baby", "Walls And Bridge" and "Brother Morphine". The Beat Does Go On.

Took my walk today. Have some pics of the route I take on my Artist's Walk and will add them to my photo gallery. Meanwhole during my walk I'm busy thinking up ways to promote the new sound and image of the new music. For the last album i used a familiar photo from one of my video shoots but this time will go for a comic Book Punk type perona that will visualize the style of the concept album. It's going to sound more like "Framed' than "Politically Avant Garde" or the newer stuff, but ti will have an edgier Punk sound and even an open mixing of styles. So far, there's more of a British Punk sound than an American sound. And I'm not complaining about that. There is also more Soul and New Wave mixed in. Punk is at the root of the mix and keeps everyithing from floating away.

The thing about Indie Music we need to remember is: songs have a great staying power. I've seen this with the muisc of fellow indie Rockers as well as with my own music. Right now the Cahill vintage songs that are still hits are: "Dream Of Egypt", 'I'm in Too Deep" and "Walls And Bridges'. These songs enjoy a happily unexpected longevity.

I've been updating the Links and Photo Gallery as well as posting regularly on this page, but there's more photos on the way and the Deluxe Newsletter which I've been sending out to folks on the mailing list will also undergo more of a virtual facelift. As the summer heat burns towards its last days and fall approaches, look for more new sites....and sounds here at Joe Cahill Music dot com.

In Web News, "Don't Make Me Stop Now" is selling on Spotify. "life Is A Withc", "REgret', "Pretty Baby" and "Don't Make me Stop Now" are hits on iTunes and in oldies news, "Brother Morphine" and "Walls And Bridges" are hist on iTunes and Rhapsody. And of course, the faves from "Lost Weekends" and 'Framed" are still a hit. I can't predict which ones will hit when I first sign that Digital Distribution Contract.

In twenty three days, I go back into the recording studio. I'm rehearsing in the laundry room of my apartment because there are no practice studios close by. Maybe someday, somebody will build a practice studio here in town.