Casiotone for the Painfully Alone December 5, 2007

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone is the musical solo-project of musician Owen Ashworth of San Francisco, California. His music is created with solely battery-operated keyboards and other electronic musical instruments and has toured with other similar acclaimed indie artists like Cass McCombs, Kill Me Tomorrow, Jumbling Towers, The Rapture and Xiu Xiu. From the Central Californian town of Merced comes El Olio Wolof, invoking majestic kingdoms where Shel Silverstein's brand of playful poetics meets the ebb and flow of dusky indie rock. Their acoustic-based arrangements are spare: acoustic guitar, electric bass, accordion, jazz-influenced drums, keyboards and bells, but the compositions created with these basic elements seem to breathe and take flight.