but you never leave my mind, and you need to leave my mind
(http://chriscappello.bandcamp.com/album/could-be-bitter-forever)
I’m no good with maps, I’ve no sense of direction.
My full band is playing with Dikembe on June 27 in new haven! Facebook event HERE.
so I don’t always post songs that are already released since this isn’t really a music blog but more a diary but anyone who’s followed along knows i make rare exceptions when it demands it - rachel’s rl kelly stuff, mat’s, occasionally my own songs i guess too haha. anyway, i wanted to make an exception in this case to post a song from chris cappello’s album “could be bitter forever” cause chris has been supportive as h*ll of my stuff & a lot of the stuff here for a very long time and talked to me about contributing something for months & months. anyway, he’s released this new album which rules & is, to my knowledge (and if my memory is right), his first release as a full band. it suits him really well. i know he’s said it’s miles ahead of anything he’s done before and i agree.
anyway, he asked if i’d post the last song from the album “new you” here since, in his words, it’s “really more of a true love song than anything else on the record”. this song is beautiful & the harmonies are really what makes it stand out above anything else. it’s propulsive, wonderful, with drums/guitars/bass & etc all swirling around but if you stripped it to like a tape recorded guitar & vocals it’d still be just as lovely purely for the dual voices. i know one of chris’ biggest objections (relatively speaking) about 420 love songs was that “it’s a shame a lot of it blends together” or something, to paraphrase, and i think that that’s in part because of the similar lofi means of production inherent in a lot of the artists/friends i feature, as well as a majority of the songs being my own or carolines since we (along with mat) run the blog, but though i know that wasn’t a snide comment at all, chris still succeeds at having something that stands out, so i hope he’s happy ;)
chris is a young dude (comparatively) and i feel like mickey when i say things like this but damn young people are killin it right now and making me feel old & used up.
anyway, check out the album here (it’s free too!) & his blog & facebook as well.
- sam
Chris Cappello - “The Western Face”
on the western face the birds can sing freely. no one will judge them but you and me. With my notebook and my pen and your camera lens, we will capture these moments til the very end and if we ever get back to the bottom will we still be friends? On the eastern shore the world is such a bore. We spent sixteen years living out a series of chores and with one after another we eventually discovered that the only life worth living was a life lived with each other and I felt alive for three hours on the thirteenth of march, and you felt alive for a lifetime in the fold of my arms.
vultures and kestrels, they come and go. discarded artifacts littered by stones and we know that we can’t be the first ones to call this our home, but in that moment you and I, darling, we were truly alone.
three months have passed since you changed your tone. two months gone since you blocked me from your phone and one since I found a new girl to give me something to hold.
so what happened to the happiness that once covered up your face, or the water in my eyes that your kiss displaced? I’ll sit up here alone on the western face and think about what it’d be like to bring you back to my place and I felt alright for a minute on the thirteenth of march. You’d be alright for a lifetime in any boy’s arms. I hope that I forget all about you and all of your charms, and I hope that you never feel better than you did in these arms.
So do I wait for the sunset to fall so I can’t find my way home, or do I pray for an earthquake to launch me right over these stones? Should I just take that leap and break my neck and all of my bones and pray for some unlucky soul to find my body in the valley below.
On the western face the birds can sing freely. They don’t care about you and me and they won’t care either way if we stay or if we leave, so let’s stay and let’s leave everybody.
Thanks. I like that song a lot, and I wish that I had been able to record it more properly. If I get the chance to record in a studio again soon, I may re-record it or just do a better home-recorded version. My recording and mixing skills have improved a lot since late 2011 when I recorded that song. It was also the first song from I’m Not Afraid Of My Own Name that I wrote, which is kind of interesting.
I haven’t been in communication with her in over a year.
Chris Cappello - “A Published Author”
oh my god chris your album is great
sad ct kids unite
Thank you :’)
(download the whole album for free here)
My favorite song off this record….thanks for touching my heart, man!
No, thank you! Cool blog, by the way.
i do feel pretty accomplished, honestly.
my next album is going to be called The Most Fucking Pathetic Example of White Male Privilege (Something To Actually Be Sad About)
look for it in 2014
i’m graduating from high school tomorrow. good riddance i guess
Chris Cappello - Circulation
Mary, I’m sure will forget me in time, if the love that I had didn’t fade from her mind. If it’s already gone, then I guess I was wrong, and those memories will never rise.
But I don’t care if she’s gone, ‘cause I left her a song. I left her twenty songs. I left her all these songs, and for what?
well to my knowledge this has more notes than any song of mine has ever gotten before. that’s nice to see.
ATTN FOLLOWERS:
Get into this kid’s new album. If you like honest, compassionate, pain-driven, heavy on the feels music you’ll absolutely love this.
He also has a Tumblr: http://chris-cappello.tumblr.com/
I hope if he starts touring he makes it to Grand Rapids. Chris, if you do, you’ve got a place to stay, man.
Thanks! I appreciate this a lot.
i have a lot going for me, but emotions don’t always work in rational terms
the songs on my new album are about me because I wanted to write songs about myself and my experiences and I’m entitled to do that
