wampus multimedia releases casey abrams CD

Wampus Multimedia introduces the new Casey Abrams CD, Like a Mirror.

Casey Abrams is a well-heeled traditionalist with an ear for reinvention. His new CD, Like a Mirror, is reverent and contemporary, at once in touch with tradition and aware of its surroundings. Influenced by the likes of Don McLean, Spider John Koerner, and Leon Redbone, Abrams thinks for himself while he genuflects, crafting original songs on traditional themes. Like Beck and Iron & Wine, he has plenty of pulp for the presses, and translates old parchments into today's breaking news.

Abrams plays what he calls “tramp art music,” melding the folkier leanings of Paul Simon, Warren Zevon, and Randy Newman with hints of jazz and progressive rock. This synthesis evokes southern-gothic Americana while liberally quoting the best of Tin Pan Alley, and is sweetened by Abrams’ delicately cynical vocals and a unique, finger-picked guitar style that recalls folk, ragtime, and country blues. Despite his old-style musical background, Abrams creates a sound that is thoroughly modern, a treat for fans of trad iconoclasts like Jeff Buckley and M. Ward.

Produced at Wampus Sound Studio, Like a Mirror is part of the Wampus Multimedia Sessions series, featuring literate singer-songwriters captured in the studio over the course of a single day. The focus falls on the intimacy of performance, evoking the mood of a live show in the context of the studio. Also on board for sessions are Pennsylvania-based Johnny J Blair, who visited the studio in December, and Washington, D.C.'s Alice Despard, who hits Wampus in February.

Like a Mirror is available at Amazon, CD Baby, Tower Records, and other fine stores.

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Wampus Announces Tracklist for Warren Zevon Tribute CD

Wampus Multimedia releases Hurry Home Early: the Songs of Warren Zevon on March 30. Following past Wampus tributes If I Were a Richman: a Tribute to the Music of Jonathan Richman (2001), and After Hours: a Tribute to the Music of Lou Reed (2003), the disc features notable indie artists interpreting Zevon as acerbic troubadour and cynical romantic.

Appearing on Hurry Home Early:

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Cafebar 401: Live at Club 3voor12

Wampus Multimedia artist Cafebar 401 continues to gain international notice, appearing recently at Eurosonic and other European festivals. Watch the new live clip of the band performing "Piano Song" at the Club 3voor12:

http://3voor12.vpro.nl/3voor12/player/video.jsp?videonumber=21052171

The band's single "Full-pro Disco!" is in rotation on Dutch national radio.

With the release of their Wampus Multimedia debut CD, Cafebar 401 is reaching beyond greater Europe to the United States. Armed with a disc that rocks hard and sticks like candy, Cafebar 401 could stick with you.

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Mark Doyon Catalog: Get Arms of Kismet and Wampeters Songs Online

Mark Doyon's song catalog is now live online. A batch of 95 songs written and released since 1987, it features lyrics as well as links to CDs and iTunes downloads. Wrapping up with the soon-to-be released songs from Cutting Room Rug (coming out April 29), it spans the recent Arms of Kismet material as well as all seven Wampeters albums. Brand new remasters of Wampeters' Pagan's Nest (originally released 1990) and Folk Medicine (originally released 1989) are out and available.

Doyon's performance rights are administered by ASCAP. For information, contact Wampus Multimedia.

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Get the Good Stuff: Releases from Wampus

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Prefer downloads to CDs? Wampus titles are now available from Buy.com, iTunes, MusicMatch, and many others!

Casey Abrams / Like a Mirror

Reflecting folk, jazz, and the American songbook, Abrams takes Paul Simon and Don McLean back to their roots.

Cafebar 401

Brimming with darkly sweet pop hooks, Cafebar 401 calls to mind Coldplay, Masters of Reality, Muse, Beck, Soulwax, Radiohead, and Queens of the Stone Age.

Arms of Kismet / Eponymous

Literate and insidiously catchy, Arms of Kismet is postmodern pop for the savvy, ironic streetcrawler.

Various Artists / After Hours: a Tribute to the Music of Lou Reed

From the optimism of Johnny J Blair's "Sunday Morning" to the ambivalence of Brook Pridemore's title track, After Hours tells the story of an artist unencumbered by popular expectations, yet... popular.

Various Artists / If I Were a Richman: a Tribute to the Music of Jonathan Richman

A wildly entertaining ride through the repertoire of one of rock's most original and eclectic songwriters. From his early days with the original Modern Lovers, through numerous iterations of the Lovers, to his latter-day solo career, Richman's work has mixed an arresting sense of innocence with a deep sensitivity to human emotion.

tvfordogs / Heavy Denver

Definitive modern rock from London-based trio.

Kowtow Popof / Kowtow Drops the Pop Off

Powerfully nuanced postmodern rave-ups that set the car radio ablaze. "Preternaturally surrealist post-pop." --Eve Zibart, The Washington Post

Amateur God / Near Life Experience

Dark gothic-semi-vocal-ambient music in the tradition of Mylene Farmer, All About Eve, Celtic Frost, Type O Negative, Sisters of Mercy, The Gathering, Jean Michel Jarre, Orbital, Front 242, Rammstein, Art of Noise, and Voivod.

J.T. Bowman / J.T. Bowman & Lerlene Stackwood

A rollicking tour de force of canny Nashville twang. Earnest plea or scathing parody?

Mitch Renault & Arms of Kismet / Ted's 12: Original Soundtrack

Snappy songs and snippets from the forthcoming film.

Various Artists / Glass Flesh 2: a Tribute to Robyn Hitchcock

Twenty-one great ways to skin Robyn Hitchcock's cat.

Wampeters / Murder Your Darlings

Smoldering chamber rock descended from the Band, the Beatles, and the Beach Boys. "A great narrative album. The last great mainstream release that exemplifies this method of development of style and sound is Wilco's Summer Teeth." --Heidi Drockelman, IndieMusic.com

Wampeters / Bloodline (remastered)

The connections between people are indecipherable and everlasting.

Wampeters / Pagan's Nest (remastered)

Ringing guitars, searing melodies and playful distortion -- everything you need for your '90s Friday night.

Wampeters / Folk Medicine (remastered)

Wampeters' sophomore disc captured the lightning of '80s pop in a bottle... and then shot the bottle with a BB gun.

Mark Doyon / Bonneville Stories

Crisp fiction from Arms of Kismet's Mark Doyon that's as dark as optimism gets. "A brilliant collection of beautifully written stories that made me cringe, grimace, and laugh, while sometimes moving me to great pity.... There just aren't any flaws here, and I can't possibly do this book justice in a review. No one could, really...." --Laurie Edwards, CultureDose.net

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1929763093/qid=1034199246/sr=8-7/ref=sr_8_7/102-8551637-2399362?v=glance&n=507846

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Coming in 2005-06

Dedicated to the support and promotion of independent music, Wampus is home to growing roster of indie artists. Interested in becoming a Wampus artist? Read all about it.

http://wampus.com/programs.html

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