http://shotfromguns.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/read-all-about-him-caural/

For those of you familiar with my work as Caural, Boy King Islands couldn’t be any more different: There are no samples and absolutely no sequencing. It’s the labor of my dear friend Jason Hunt and myself on actual instruments, recorded with actual microphones - hooray! I am on vocals and drums, and he and I share duties on guitars, Rhodes, Wurlitzer, and assorted sounds. Guests include our friend Jacob Croegaert on bass for certain songs, and Jason’s wife Beth lends beautiful backing vocals. And, the album wouldn’t be what it is without the help of Keith Kreuser aka K-Kruz who helped mix it over the last bunch of months!

I have posted 5 songs from the as-of-yet-untitled album on our Myspace:  

www.myspace.com/boykingislands 

I hope you enjoy it; If you do, please share with your friends! 

Zachary Mastoon aka Caural

http://centerstagechicago.com/music/articles/caural.html

http://circuitreerecords.blogspot.com/2009/08/caural-interview.html

It was more or less what inspired my “yo” piece (”Sorry, Underground Hip Hop Happened 10 Years Ago (for Regan)”), and the story behind it is here:

http://www.heartyarts.com/heartyarts/Blog/Entries/2009/5/18_Caural-Goldwave.html

Enjoy!

::: Resonate v4.0 - Saturday, 4.04.2009 @ 9 PM

[Description from Resonate:]

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RESONATE is produced by Chicago’s Burning Man Community for the
Burning Community at-large. It embodies the tenets of
Radical-Inclusion, Radical Self-Expression, Radical Self-Reliance and
LEAVE NO TRACE!

Event begins at 9 pm, ends 5 am

All profits from this all-tribe event go back to our community and
are administered thru the Chicago steeringman committee. All budget and
expense info are reported transparently to the community (i.e. you)
thru the Burning Man-Chicago regional mailing list. BYO. Dress to Kill.
Near West Side location.

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This event has too much going on… Music, video, performance, fire
(yes, fire!), live art, art installations, sound and light
installations, and it’s going ALL NIGHT LONG. Check out the website
for full event details:

http://www.resonatechicago.net

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::: Caural Coming to Princeton!

I am honored to have been invited to speak for the Graduate
Composition Colloquium at Princeton University. My presentation is
open to the public:

Composition Colloquium Talk with Zachary Mastoon (aka Caural)
Thursday, 4.16.09 @ 4:30pm

Woolworth Music Building on the Princeton Campus

The Woolworth Music Building can be located approximately at the
corner of Washington Road and Prospect Avenue in Princeton (NJ)

Later that evening, K-Kruz joins me again for some more improvised hijinks:

Terrace F. Club with K-Kruz - 4.16.09 @ 11:30

62 Washington Rd,
Princeton, New Jersey 08544

Cost: FREE

We’ll be djaying a little bit before doing our live sampler set.

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::: Sign up on my Mailing List!

I have had an email list for quite some time now and, if you’re on it (and it has not bounced from your inbox as spam (boo!)), you know I send it out only once every couple of months.

Instead of continuing to send out emails as I have been doing, I have decided to create a group and avoid being identified as spam by Google’s robots.



If you are still interested in receiving my infrequent updates - or if you never have and want to start now - please accept this invitation to join:

http://groups.google.com/group/hellocaural

http://powerstripcircus.com/?p=333

So, to commemorate the ten-year anniversary of my experience aboard Semester at Sea, I just scanned my favorite photos and posted them on Flickr. There’s also a link to my journal excerpts from the trip on the page. And here it is again, just in case you are at all interested in the images I chose not to include…

http://zacharymastoon.blogspot.com/2008/05/and-into-that-towel-sitting-across-my.html

Wow, it’s 2009. 2008 was fairly insane for me: full of huge decisions and, therefore, major changes. As many of you know,
a month before my departure date to Kobe, I withdrew from the JET Program and happily remained in Chicago among family and friends. I accepted a full-time position as a Project Manager at an E-Commerce company in River North instead of teaching elementary school students basic English, and have never been happier with an actual “grown up” job.

In any event, of course music continues, though at a much slower pace. After a first run at an improvised sampler set with Chicago producer and old friend K-Kruz for DJ Striz’s party at the Whistler, we are teaming up again for two shows this month in Chicago:

::: (Abbreviated Press Release from A/V XPLO)

A/V XPLO presents: CHANGE WE XPLO
featuring nearly 50 artists and 8 music entities

Friday, January 23rd, 7:00 PM (17 & over) @ Subterranean
2011 North Ave. Chicago, IL 60647 (773) 278-6600
$10 cover

2008 has proven to be an historic year for the United States. Chicago’s own Barack
Obama ignited a political and creative movement throughout the city and nation. The
good people who run A/V XPLO festivals (music director Paul Midstates and art
director Tony Vega) could not sit by and allow this seminal moment to pass without
throwing a party.

AUDIO :
Golden Sores
Ten Speed www.tenspeedmusic.com
Midstates & the Choir of Ghosts midstatesmusic.com
Change! http://www.myspace.com/changemusic
Caural (Zachary Mastoon www.caural.net) with K-Kruz (Chicago producer)
Panda Riot www.pandariot.com
Pugs Atomz www.myspace.com/pugsleeatomz
DJ SR71 http://www.myspace.com/srseventyone

VISUAL:
Tony Vega, Jessica Wagner, Bernadette Aguilar, Jose “J-Rod” Rodriguez, Natalie
Escamilla, Nuria McNeal, Brad Biancardi with many more to come.

For more information, visit http://avxplo.com

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::: Caural & K-Kruz opening for Warp’s Nightmares on Wax

Yes, in case you miss our show at Subterranean, the next week we’ll be joining Abstract Science DJs and opening for Nightmares on Wax!

Saturday, January 31st, 9:00 PM @ Abbey Pub
3420 W. Grace Street. Chicago, IL 60618
$16 in advance/$18 at the door

This should be a great show. Thanks to the Windish Agency and Approaching Serpents for setting this up!

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::: Boy King Islands : Finally ready to mix!

Over the last year, Jason and I have written and recorded a slew of new songs and thus totally reshaped the Boy King Islands record, which has been a long time in the coming. Five years and three record labels later, we will finally mix and release the album, tentatively entitled “Fall.” I am really happy with the new material and, as soon as it’s ready for public consumption, I’ll post some new tunes on the good old Myspace for you to hear. Some older songs are up for you to listen to:

www.myspace.com/boykingislands

Stay tuned; Release date TBD in 2009

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::: Tambourine Solo: Take One (Collaboration with Chicago artist Cody Hudson)

After an initial opening in Los Angeles this past May at New Image Art, my collaboration with artist Cody Hudson was unveiled - and is still up - at the Andrew Rafacz Gallery here in Chicago. If you missed the opening, you can view the video component here:

http://www.vimeo.com/2579556

The video was also picked up by French clothing company Sixpack, for whom Cody designs cool shirts and hoodies. You can view Cody’s line here:

http://www.sixpack.fr/static/artist.php#id=6

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There’s a lot of stuff coming your way in 2009, and I’ll keep you in the loop as release dates approach. Meanwhile, best of luck to each of you this year.

Zachary Mastoon aka Caural

Here are details from Gapersblock.com:

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Chances are you’re familiar with the work of local visual artist Cody Hudson by now; either by way of his silkscreened posters for various events and venues, his public art installations, or perhaps even his work as in-house designer (under the moniker Struggle Inc.) for the Chocolate Industries record label. Or you might know him — along with Mike Genovese and Juan Angel Chávez — as one of a core cluster of this city’s most notable street artists.

This weekend, Hudson will be trotting out a new batch of work at a show that opens this Friday evening at the Andrew Rafacz Gallery in the West Loop. Entitled “Tambourine Solo: Take One,” the exhibition will also feature musical accompaniment — a musical score crafted by local musician Zachary Mastoon. In recent years Mastoon’s released albums of shoegazey, downtempo tunes under the name Caural. The score for “Tambourine Solo,” incidently, was originally done in collaboration with Hudson for a show that took place at New Image Art in L.A. this past August. So peep the work, hear the soundtrack, maybe even buy a print of something. 835 W. Washington, 5-8 PM. 312-404-9188 for info. The exhibition is scheduled to run until January 24.

— Graham Sanford

TAMBOURINE SOLO: TAKE ONE from cody hudson on Vimeo.