Summer's end, new Distant Towers songs

This summer has brought two new Distant Towers song to the fold.  The first called Flee by the Water was finished in June.  The second is Friend called Fear and was completed in September.  Links to both are shown below.

Flee by the Water
http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=12890205

Friend called Fear
http://distant-towers.com/DTlatestsong.htm

You can listen to the full Distant Towers catalog here:
http://distant-towers.com/hear.htm

Watch Distant Towers videos here, including videos for the two new songs:
http://distant-towers.com/watch.htm

Concept EP

The concept EP that Distant Towers was working on has been put on hold for now.  Some material was written and recorded but we decided to focus on standalone songs for a while.  We plan to revist this concept EP material sometime in the future.

Distant Towers, reignited in 2014

The Distant Towers machine is rumbling along again.  We are not up to full speed but working towards that goal. 

Our current lineup is:
Tom McCaffrey:  Vocals, bass, synthesizer, mixing
Preston "Presto" Richardson:  Drums, percussion, drum recording/engineering
Tony Wood:  Guitar, guitar synthesizer, vocals

Our newest song is called Black Death Hand and can be listened to here:
http://distant-towers.com/DTlatestsong.htm

We currently have four CDs available for purchase at CD Baby:  http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/DistantTowers

You can listen to Distant Towers on Jango:  http://www.jango.com/music/Distant+Towers?l=0

You can see and hear more of Distant Towers at www.distant-towers.com

Distant Towers, beyond the 4th CD

Currently Distant Towers is working on rough versions of songs for a new concept EP.  Once our drummer, Preston "Presto" Richardson, is settled into his new studio space later this year, we will be finishing this group of songs.  We hope to make them available for listening online by late 2013 or early 2014. 

4th CD from Distant Towers coming soon.....

Distant Towers update.....The songs for the 4th CD from Distant Towers have been assembled and are now being mastered. The CD is named "Time to Fly" and will consist of 12 songs with a total running time of approximately 63 minutes.

Track... list...
1. Ask Myself
2. Bounce
3. Break it Down
4. Fractured Pieces
5. Laugh Out Loud
6. SAAMA, parts 1, 2 and 3
7. Seeds of Dis-Wonder
8. Shattered
9. Storybook
10. Time to Fly
11. Turn for the Worst
12. Westward Bound

Distant Towers is:
Tom McCaffrey: Vocals, lyrics, synthesizer, bass and guitar. Mixing and CD package layout.
Preston Richardson: Drums, percussion and drum engineering/mixing
Tony Wood: Guitars, vocals, lyrics, synthesizer. Mastering.

The tentative release date for the new CD is June 2013. CDs will be available at first and then several weeks after that, the CD and tunes will be available on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify and other digital music retailers. Information on Distant Tower songs can be viewed here http://www.distant-towers.com/dt-all-songs.htm

Out of the Box

The first single, Pull the Trigger,  from Distant Towers 3rd CD, A Detailed Account of a Random Occurrence was featured on the WHRV music show, Out of the Box, on November 21, 2011 and again on January 7, 2013.  You can access the shows here on demand.....  http://dimensions.whro.org/index.php/all-articles/112-out-of-the-box-with-paul-shugrue.html
You can listen to Pull the Trigger here on Out of the Box from the 11-21 show....
http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=12011556
Our thanks go out to Paul Shugrue for playing local music and we hope you will tune into Out of the Box, Monday through Friday from 7 PM to 9 PM at 89.5 FM.  He plays a great mix of tunes that you are not likely to hear anywhere else.

New Distant Towers tune in the pipeline

Seeds of Dis-Wonder is the newest song from Distant Towers and will be finished in late October, early November 2012.  You can listen to it at the DT website.

Coming soon.....a new Distant Towers CD

In early November, the new Distant Towers CD, A Detailed Account of a Random Occurrence will be released.  The CD can be purchased from the DT website, CD Baby, Amazon, I-tunes as well as streamed on Spotify.

Ask Myself, lastest song from DT

The lastest song from DT called Ask Myself has been completed.  You can listen to it here...
http://distant-towers.com/DTlatestsong.htm

The song started from an idea in the fall of 2011 and was completed in 2012 once Tom got settled in his new home of South Korea.  This song completes the clutch of tunes that will make up our 4th CD. 

Thanks for listening, we hope you enjoy it!

Distant Towers, summer 2012 update

Distant Towers new CD update.....
  The 3rd CD from Distant Towers is going to be released later this year (hopefully in early October).  The name of the CD is "A Detailed Account of a Random Occurrence" or DARO for short.  The CD covers the last songs written and recorded with drummer Robbie Brunjes (now currently recording with his band NEON).  It also features a guest appearance from drummer Frank McVeigh (Hello--Alternate version and Broken Foe).  There will be nine songs in total on the CD including Distant Tower's first instrumental track called "27 You're Not Readable".

The material for Distant Tower's 4th CD is already recorded and that CD is tentatively scheduled to be released sometime in 2013.  All material on the 4th CD features our drummer, Preston Richardson. 

A new Distant Tower's website is being designed at this time and we hope to have it ready by the end of this summer.  It will allow viewers to watch videos, listen to songs, see pictures and purchase  Distant Towers  CDs.
 
We thank all you folks who have helped critique our music, listened to our music, watched our videos and purchased our CDs.

Preston's studio will be down for a bit this summer and we are going to take a break from writing new songs until the 3rd CD has been sent for mastering.  After that we will start writing songs for what could be a 5th CD.

Distant Towers machine is still chugging along

Well, how the heck did 2011 slip by so quickly?  And now we are well into 2012. 

So our lineup has remained the same since the last half of 2010....
Tom McCaffrey:  Vocals, lyrics, bass, synths, Sonar mixing
Preston Richardson:  Drums, percussion, synths
Tony Wood:  Guitars, guitar synths, vocals

We have accrued enough material for two CDs that we have yet to master and release.  The first will be the last songs with Robbie Brunjes as our drummer...ending with Hello.  The second will be a CD with our current drummer, Preston Richardson....starting with SAAMA.  We hope to release the first of these two CDs by the end of 2012.  We don't have a time frame for the second.

We will also be attempting to update our website soon.

Our latest song is a little quirky for DT but will soon be followed by a tune a deeper DT vibe.

The latest song is Shattered and you can listen to it here....
http://distant-towers.com/DTlatestsong.htm

You can listen to our clutch of 2011 songs by going here...
http://www.distant-towers.com/dtsongs.htm  (they start with Storybook and end with Time to Fly)

Stay tuned for a new song sometime in May.  It is called Ask Myself.

See ya,

DT

Distant Towers strikes again!!!

The latest song by Distant Towers is now available here.  It is called Bounce (the song, not the CD) and features Preston "Presto" Richardson on drums, percussion and sitar.....what....uh....wait, since when do drummers play sitar????  Oh well, however he did, it sounds cool.  So head on over for a listen and
BANG THE BONG LIKE MEGATRON!!!!!!

Presto pounds the cans!!!!

Since late spring 2010, DT has been working closely with drummer, Preston "Presto" Richardson.  He has appeared on songs such as Hello, Broken Foe, SAAMA and the upcoming song Bounce (the song).  More on Preston later....

Second Distant Towers CD called Bounce is now available

You can buy it directly from DT or via CD Baby by clicking here

SAAMA song and video

Greeting folks.  The most recently completed DT song is available and there is a video for it as well here.  Enjoy the crazy ride!!

new Distant Towers tune is forthcoming

Within the next 7 days a new tune by Distant Towers will be released.  It is called Dive 2 the Middle.  This is a tune from April 2010 developed live by Tom, Tony and Robbie at Distant Towers South.  Final tracks were completed in June.  Tony helmed the mixing for this one with a lot of advice and guidance from Tom.

This tune will be the seventh towards a third CD of Distant Towers material.  It is not clear at this time whether our 3rd CD will consist of these tunes but it is likely. 

Look for a link to the tune here very soon.

Mastering for Bounce has commenced

Tom recently delivered the nine tunes for the Bounce CD to Tony for mastering.  The first master version was created on July 17, 2010 and is currently being critiqued.  We fully expect to have a finished CD in our hands by the end of September, start of October.

We have plans for a new website to coincide with the new album although the current website pages will still be available through a special link or several links once the new site goes live.

Tom is currently wading into the world of graphics to formulate and execute the concept for Bounce CD package so that it will be ready in time to send to the duplicator with the finished master disc.

Many thanks to all our various friends and family members who have lent an ear to this group of tunes as they were created.  The last tune for this CD was finished in October 2009.  We purposely waited until summer 2010 to start mastering the CD in order to give us some objectivity on the tunes as well as allowing us time in the intervening 8 months to make some more tunes and have some fun playing together.

New song, Broken Foe is now available for listening

The latest Distant Towers tune called Broken Foe is available for listening now by clicking on the song title.

There is another DT tune in the works tentatively called Dive to the Middle.  We hope to have that up and running sometime in mid June.

Final mixing and mastering for the second CD called Bounce is scheduled to begin in June also.  The CD is tentatively schedule for an October release.  All the songs are currently available at the website for listening under the HEAR link.

On May 6th and 15th, Distant Towers was played for the first time ever on FM radio.  The host of the show called Out of the Box, Paul Shugrue, played the song Ghost Show from the the first Distant Towers CD of the same name.  Thanks for the play Paul!

Follow the links below for more on Out of the Box.....

Out of the Box

Out of the Box on demand archive

Out of the Box playlist for 5.6.2010

Out of the Box playlist for 5.15.2010

new Distant Towers song, Hello

The newest song by Distant Towers is called "Hello" and is available here

Playing ketchup, or is it catsup....hmmm catch up, yeah thats it!

Okay, so I am not much of a blogger. I suppose posting on a more consistent basis would be preferable...but if no one is following....what can it hurt?

DT is working on a new tune right now. It is the first tune to come out of the new Distant Towers studio south. It wasn't totally recorded there, only parts. But the initial ideas were done there and we worked out the final structure in our last jam session as well as laying down some scratch guitars and final bass tracks.

The song will be called Hello and we hope to have it finished in the next couple of weeks, or sooner. This one is a bit unusual in that I (Tony) am doing the lead vocals. I also wrote the lyrics. It stemmed from an idea that I had on acoustic guitar with a simple melody. Tom encouraged me to develop it and gave me some pointers along the way. While he worked on Soft as a Stone, I was developing Hello. Once the final song structure was arrived at, Tom decided to dust off his guitar and lay down the lead on this one. Actually there wasn't a ton of dust on his guitar as he added some really cool guitar swells at the mid point of Soft as a Stone. So that rounds out the unusual aspects of this latest, almost done tune.

I will post here as soon as the song is available at the website.