It’s a new year and I’m looking at a few opportunities coming up on the calendar. Lots of exciting things ahead and really working on pinning down the big thing for me this year. I’m still in Hong Kong and loving it here. One thing I’m particularly excited about this year is discovering more about the arts community in this city and meeting the people who are a part of it.
As the calendar turns and reveals a new year, it’s a good time for looking ahead, evaluating the past and journaling the present. In terms of that latter category, I think I’m a little slow on finding Switchfoot’s latest project, Hello Hurricane, but I have to say it’s on constant rotation these days.
Incidentally, if you love Switchfoot and you don’t know about Fiction Family, check em out. The band is fronted by Jon Foreman and is quite a bit folkier than Switchfoot. Apparently the project was at one point going to be released by Hear Music, the label that puts out music you buy at Starbucks. That didn’t happen after all, so it’s now available on iTunes. After a brief scan it doesn’t have the stylistic appeal of the Jon Foreman solo projects for me, but I appreciate Jon’s songwriting quite a bit, so I’m sure I’d dig it if I gave it more time.
Here are a few other projects I’m listening to lately:
MuteMath – Armistice
Owl City – Ocean Eyes
Sarah Blasko – As Day Follows Night
Mario Spinetti – When You Say My Name
Tell me what you’re listening to in this new this decade.
If you live in Hong Kong and you’re one of the many people who have been asking where you can find my CDs in physical form, there is finally an answer.
You can order CDs online or you can simply go to their store in Causeway Bay, just around the corner from Times Square. What Birds Dream is just $80 and Changing Everything: What Birds Dream [Remixed] is $70.
Hey! Katie told me you were on the site. I haven't been to the site much since I got to Hong Kong in February, but I'm definitely going to support you at your performances. I missed the last one cos I was in China but I'll definitely be at your CD release show. Katie thinks we'll all be out of it at her junk trip the next day because of it though!
hey thanks Jeff! I thought it was a fun show to watch before working!! lol Keep me posted on your gigs so i can include in the newsletters sent out to nearly 1000 people in HK interested in seeing original live music :)
Jeff Caylor believes there's something magical about songwriting.
"You simply put the notes and words together and then the song takes on its own meaning apart from you. Sometimes I imagine all these little s.o.s.’s can have a positive effect on someone else," says Caylor.
"You get all honest and transparent. You cry for help in a song. You write words that beg for someone to come and save you. And then, if everything goes right, in the end, the song ends up saving someone else."
Critics have been lauding his debut CD Okay, even calling it the 5th best CD of 2007—uncommon accolades for an indie artist without promotion or a recording budget. And while the songwriting has gotten plenty of attention, it's Caylor's voice that sets him apart. One reviewer quipped, "If Seal were white, this is what he’d sound like."
Jeff Caylor is currently living in Hong Kong where he's working on his sophomore effort, set to release in early 2008.
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