Watch the brand new video from AJ Suede & Televangel's upcoming 2nd album watch video on watch page
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The transcendent "Long Shot" video by Ceschi is out now! Concept by Morgan's Brother & Ceschi, watch here :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RNHh...
Long Shot is from the album "This Guitar Was Stolen Along With Years Of Our Lives" by Ceschi
Ceschi performance shot by Nick Barnz in Florida (Thanks Alex Gulkin)
Kenny Easterday (RIP) 12/7/1973 - 2/12/2016
Noseblunt scene skater : Felipe Nunes
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The final Factor Chandelier single from 'Time Invested II' is out now featuring Sunspot Jonz of the Living Legends! Watch and listen on our channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGgbh...
We can't wait to release 'Time Invested II' this coming Monday, March 28th. Preorder a copy on beautifully packaged gatefold vinyl including 12" and 7" LPs side by side.
"20 years after the release of his first album, Factor Chandelier has created Time Invested II, a nostalgic and energetic compilation reminiscent of how his music career started. With the intent of creating something inspiring for a younger self, the producer collaborated with his heroes, long-time friends and contemporaries to create a work of 16 songs. Time Invested II features a mix of artists that include tour mates, frequent collaborators and friends with whom Factor Chandelier shares undeniable creative bonds including Open Mike Eagle, Ceschi, Sunspot Jonz of Living Legends, Eligh, Def3, Dope Knife, Awol One, Kay the Aquanaut, Common Grackle, Evil Ebenezer, Taylor Jade, Paranoid Castle and Moka Only. The release of the album aligns with his 40th birthday and somehow still feels like this might just be the beginning."
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Presented by Indecline: new Ceschi and Factor Chandelier out now! Watch the powerful music video for "The Decline of Western Civ 4&5" & stream digitally everywhere. watch video on watch page
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Our last Freecember release of 2021: new album 'Cave Paintings' by kidDead (produced by OneWerd). In memory of kidDead. Pay what you wish or donate here: fakefour.bandcamp.com/album/cave-paintings ā¤ļø
Watch the music video for title track "Cave Paintings" on our channel: https://youtu.be/bprl_NtBoOY
In Ceschi's words:
"In a year of continuous losses, one of the strangest & hardest was the loss of Ross Norton.
kidDead was not only a touring musician, vegan chef, video director, strong community presence (he wouldnāt like activist) & thinker I related to deeply - he was a person I spoke to regularly.
On our last conversation we were excited to share a stage together for the first time in yearsā¦.he was still announced on the flyer around the internet after he passed.
10 people showed up to that show in Nashville, I played most of my set in the darkest part of a balcony. I think I walked up to the highest point of the club in some illogical manner because of some magical, ridiculous hope that Ross would hear it more clearly. Ross was quite spiritual for an agnostic or anti-theist or whatever heād call himself - after all - so am I.
Today Iām still pissed that we didnāt get to share some of our best work with each other. Iām pissed that he never got to make the video for āTake It All Backā that he always wanted toā¦.and Iām especially pissed that I saw him elevating his craft & he never got to properly share that with the world. Iām pissed at drugs & the pharmaceutical industry & capitalism that continues to prey on people I love.
This 10 song album produced by talented Freecember alum OneWerd features Sole, Squalloscope, Swordplay, Woolsee, Adder & myself (my verse recorded during the same afternoon Ross recorded Red Emma for me in Nashville).
Itās high energy kidDead, plenty of anarchy, plenty of love from a friend we will all miss deeply.
All donations will support the charity www.nashvillebailfund.org.
Most importantly please listen & listen to your friends while theyāre here."
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A surprise new Ceschi album is out now! Pay-what-you-wish for 'THIS GUITAR WAS STOLEN ALONG WITH YEARS OF OUR LIVES' on our Bandcamp and stream it everywhere digitally today. '2020 BC' video coming soon. Support the album here:
Bandcamp - fakefour.bandcamp.com/album/this-guitar-was-stolenā¦
Spotify - open.spotify.com/album/1RAoOpGSG5VedSdGbrtmnT?si=6ā¦
Apple Music - music.apple.com/us/album/this-guitar-was-stolen-alā¦
In Ceschi's words: "Pandemic years took so much from us.Ā
While the world was witnessing deaths of millions due to a highly contagious virus, most of the lives lost around me were to suicide & drugs. Faces i hadnāt been able to see for a long time no longer had faces & the final memories between us consisted of short text message check-ins, heart emojis or songs shared between friends struggling to come up with proper words to help each other wade through the swamps of our shared reality.Ā
The years also took away my ability to wrap up the final piece of the Sad, Fat Luck trilogyĀ āBring Us The Head of Francisco Falseā. With all scheduling with Factor thrown out the window - I felt trapped in a creative, personal & professional limbo.Ā
A lot of this guitar album was started shortlyĀ before & during lockdown while i lived in Glassell Park, east side of Los Ćngeles. Across the country from my family, living in a house with my manager, her boyfriend & a lovely woman who understandably no longer wished to be a chronically depressed musicianās partner. Dreams turned to letdowns, the world was on fire, nothing happened as we had wished nor imagined.Ā
After our quiet, peaceful relationship disintegrated, IĀ helped her move to Long Beach then mostly locked myself in a room, ordered excessive vegan food & played guitar like I was 13 years old and listening to In Utero for the first time. Time didnāt matter the way it used to.Ā
Not sure if itās true, but it felt like I stayed in bed for weeks at a time on some Brian Wilson shit - between livestreams, reading or watching celebrities ruin the song āImagineā on TV.Ā It felt as if i was doing nothing. But, as it did in prison, nostalgia would slap me in heavy waves. The dreams were a little more vivid & memories of youth began to reappear clearly.Ā
I started to write songs that reminded me of simpler times, of the grunge, indie rock or punk of tween years.Ā Songs that unearthed pain from youth that had not yet been confronted.Ā
I wrote & wrote - attempting to analyze what was happening around us in a world crumbling before our eyes.Ā
In one case it took me 7 months to finish a nearly 8 minute song about the domestication of humans by a manipulative, violent capitalist power structure.
I remember talking on the phone to Patrick the Rabbit about that concept - explaining that it felt more like a history essay and how I needed to somehow chisel it into a song. My minor obsession with the frightening lunacy surrounding the Q-Anon movement inspired me to finish that song.Ā
Thenā¦there was writing about that everlasting fog of grief that still required clarity & understanding.Ā
Grief - that giant tortoise of a process - one that drags itself in & out of our hearts & minds until we ultimately find pockets of temporary relief within the harshness of existence.Ā
Heaven & Lucky were part of processing the deaths of dear friends. Nod Off was a reminder of multiple situations in my life, how badly it hurt to love an addict while feelingĀ completely helpless watching them slowly kill themselves.Ā
Teach a Rat to Fish was specifically written for my good friends Bobby & Pepe who are in federal prison right now.Ā
I can go on and on butā¦
thatās the album youāre listening toā¦
When i drove across the country, numb, back to CT from LA - i set up recording sessions with Jon Conine who had recorded the split album with Pat.Ā
We started June 2020 with live takes, i would return and attempt to capture the best live takes until one struck. Jon Conine & Steve Hill were extremely patient during this process as I tried to record the same songs over & over week after week. The final pieces of the album were recorded in October 2021 with added help from Patrick Dalton before being meticulously mixed / post-produced by Baz The Frenchman in Los Ćngeles then mastered by Michael J Collins of Filthybroke Recordings.
Processing, gratitude, reminders, growth in guitar song formā¦is what youāre listening to here.Ā
It would never have been complete without the cast of incredibly talented musicians Iām proud to call friends & family.Ā
So much has been taken from usā¦
But even the guitars stolen from me still live on records.Ā
Itās just a reminder that theyāll never take everything from us."
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One of the most beautiful things you will see & hear today is right here. Honored to share the new video from Fake Four's musical family members Child Actor & Televangel !
Directed by Austin Saya
watch video on watch page
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ceschi & factor re-share their gospel - remixed video by riley deacon watch video on watch page
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Fake Four Inc. is an independent record label from New Haven, CT started in 2008 by brothers Ceschi & David Ramos. Although we focus on progressive hip hip & indie rock - we have worked with artists of many genres. We like antiquated artifacts such as vinyl, cassettes & sample based hip hop. Some free & non free things at:
fakefour.bandcamp.com