Hey, if you’re in Hong Kong, come out to the Fringe Club for another night of loud music and fantastic atmosphere! We go on after 10:30p.

More news about current projects and life in general to come soon!

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’re in the midwest, come out for a chill set of songs at Miller Chapel on the Anderson University campus. We’ll get started around 7:30p.

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White Noise Records

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.

Thanks to Manu Steinhoff for the connection! Read the review here–if you can read German.

For all of you who have emailed me wondering where to get my CD in Hong Kong, this is it! We’re still working on some proper distribution here, but this is the best place to come get my music.

Also, if you want to support the band in the Global Battle of the Bands competition, mark your calendar for Friday night, October 9th. We’re going to play our loudest down at the Backstage Live. More information on that coming soon!

而他的最新個人專輯《What Birds Dream》，同樣是自資出版，同樣是承接著其深思熟類型的流行音樂路線，但跟其上張碟不同的是Jeff今趟多加了不同的音樂元素及類形。好像在〈15 Minutes Away〉、〈Reggie’s In The Window Again〉及〈Grace In The Meantime〉中，Jeff就作了一些較Upbeat的嘗試，聽起來都是充滿盼望、朝氣的。不能不提的是在〈Not Houdini〉一曲，Jeff加了一些夾雜著藍調及爵士樂的元素，不然令人想起The Beatles的〈Oh Darling〉。這也許是跟Jeff在學生年代修續過爵士樂的課堂有關。

Actually, I do know that it’s part of a good review of my new CD What Birds Dream in Traditional Chinese. But other than that, I can only recognize about 5 of these characters. If you can read Chinese (or just have a fascination about it like me) have a look at the full review here.

Artwork produced by Luke Flowers, of course. And in addition to my voice, Gavin also made liberal use of violin parts from the always amazing Leora Gardner on 743.

I find this project exciting on a few levels. First, the arrangements are just moving. I love how Gavin takes the melody / vocal tracks of a song that I’ve produced and, with little input from me, creates something totally different and unique. The songs have a catchy, memorable quality all their own and a few that were upbeat are now downtempo and vice versa. I’m also excited by the fact that a lot of people will hear these tracks that would never stumble upon my music to begin with.

Have a listen to a couple samples in the orange playbar on jeffcaylor.com and you can compare 15 Minutes Away with the new 15 Minutes Away (Leonid’s Mix). You can also hear the remix of A Way to Say, as well. If you’d like to listen to any of my music, for free, the best place to go is grooveshark.com where you can simply search “Jeff Caylor.”

Pick up the new remix album today at the store. In a couple weeks, you’ll find it on iTunes and I’ll be selling the physical discs as well.

Gavin and I are working hard to promote the newest music we’ve recorded together and the following is a story from the Bury Free Press in the UK. Click the image to see a higher resolution scan of the newspaper page.