Cities on the Moon's debut album, Witness, is now available! Check out the music store: music.citiesonthemoon.com |
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This is our debut album. Feel free to listen as much as you like, we have the entire album available for streaming. You can own it on your own computer complete with digital booklet for the low, low price of $8!. Or, order the limited-edition compact disc, hand-packaged in a recycled box for $10 plus shipping. Most CD orders go out the very next business day. Special thanks: Matt Riddle for his invaluable contributions to this music. Matt Devino for the cover photograph and for all his assistance as the designated "visual arts" guru for this project. Keep an eye out for the music video for "The Silver in the Sky" directed by him. Thanks to Armand Anthony for mastering. My soon-to-be wife Sharla Cate deserves many thanks as well for inspiration and for not complaining while I locked myself in the bedroom for days on end to record some of these songs. Big thanks to a few former band members and amazing friends: Mike Konopka, David Ross and Skipper, I've learned important things from each of you that helped me to make this record. Thanks to my family most of all. |
WITNESS is available now! (April 11 2011)
Witness the new album, "Witness." Available only from the Cities on the Moon music store. Download in many formats or order the special, limited-edition CD package.
More words about WITNESS (March 31 2011)
The album is just about done, and a plan has taken shape as to its proper release. The full length album will first be available for a digital download on our own website, music.citiesonthemoon.com. This is what we'll call the "early bird" download. That should be available in early April. Then we'll also have a limited supply of hand-packaged CDs (don't worry, it's not just CDRs in a blank envelope) to sell, also from our own site. Then later in April things will be getting a bit more serious as the major digital retailers should be getting their hands on the album (iTunes, Amazonmp3).
Until then, head over to our music page and listen to the title track off the album, Witness.
AN ALBUM! (March 15 2011)
On the same note as my previous post, regarding Patrick using the Cities on the Moon name going forward, there is a new set of recordings which are being finished right now. It's a full album, named "Witness," and it will be out in April available for download. I will have previews of a song or two up shortly to get people excitied.
The master plan is to put out "Witness," then surface again with the recordings from last year, which is still in the works. We have the recordings in the hands of a good friend and very capable drummer, Mike Konopka, in Austin, Texas. This set of music will also be released, and it will still be called "A Sound and Nothing Else." Both albums are unique sets of music in their own respect and I think will complement each other. It's all very exciting and I hope people will appreciate both.
While "A Sound and Nothing Else" is truly a group effort - Matt Riddle, Josh Lopez, Mike and myself all with significant contributions, "Witness" is kind of a solo project (though Matt is featured on a song). All these songs are coming from the same place in my life though, so to me it's all Cities on the Moon.
I can't wait to share this music.
-Patrick
Another Announcement (February 26 2011)
Cities on the Moon will live on. It has been decided that I (Patrick) will continue to use the Cities on the Moon name upon the relocation to Vermont. Burlington will never be the same, I'm sure.
Also music will be available very soon.
An Announcement (February 13 2011)
Cities on the Moon has gone through a period of great uncertainty in the past few months. We'll start from the beginning. Patrick decided in December to move back to Vermont, and since that decision was made the members of the band have been unsure about how to proceed. Some wanted to finish the album, some lost interest. Recently Josh Krapff, our drummer, left the group. The rest of the group, Patrick, Matt and Josh Lopez, have decided to proceed with the album recording, which currently is complete with the exception of drums. A friend will be enlisted to help complete the album before Patrick's move in May.
We made some great music in the last year and Josh will be missed from the group. It is was not an easy decision for any one of us.
Live Performances
We're currently focused on writing, recording and moving across the country.
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Hit us up. If you want phone numbers and such, register your intent in an email and we'll get back to you.
We wanted to create a little section just in case any blogs or other publications were looking for some information.
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The songs that ended up on Cities on the Moon's debut album, "Witness," are largely a personal history, but songwriter Patrick Crowley tries not to be overly autobiographical, believing in dream-like sequences and fantastical metaphors to elude to more humble ideas of growing up, living with addiction, and finding love. These are the same things songwriters have been singing about for years, and these are the things Cities on the Moon uses to build on and to express in its own way -- trying to make music all at once accessible and expressive, artistic and straightforward. When the songs are trying to convey more subtle feelings, the band can be intimate and even traditional. When the emotions move to other directions, the music becomes loud, dynamic and driving. Cities on the Moon was founded in Ventura, California in early 2010, started by two New Hampshire exports, Patrick Crowley and Matt Riddle. Their duo soon grew to a band, adding band mates Josh Krapff and Josh Lopez, both of Newbury Park, California. While the band recorded throughout the year, Krapff eventually left the group, and New Hampshire native Mike Konopka stepped in to record drums from his current base in Austin, Texas. While the end result of those recording sessions is still in the works today, Crowley soon announced a move to Vermont, where he will continue to perform under the Cities on the Moon name, thus transforming Cities on the Moon into a recording project with contributions from across the U.S. In the first few months of 2011, Crowley completed work on a largely solo album, "Witness." Which will be released on the band's own label, Robot Assembly Union, in April. The album, offering a more stripped-down look at Crowley's songwriting, but showing a penchant for driving rock, is meant to be a natural progression toward the group's next album, a larger-scale rock effort to be released later this year. |
Hi-res promo photos:
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Robot Assembly Union Records is the self-serving record label that we made up to release our music.
Witness will be its first release obviously and we will decide its future after the release. At this point, honestly, it is little more than a logo, but perhaps we learn some things from it and carry on with it. We'll see.
Robot Assembly Union Records website
