Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Monday, August 16, 2010
CAPRA Launches New Merch Store!!!!!!
Good day fellow CAPRA -tians, -ese's, -ites, -cans, etc. Otherwise known as our dedicated fans. We have excellent news, we are officially launching our CAPRA merch store!! We have an assortment of t-shirts, stickers,--designed by our very own Jeffrey LaLiberte--as well as our self-released Gypsy Jones EP available for you all to rep and possibly spread a little love in your neighborhood. You ladies and gents have waited patiently and the time has finally come! In the near future we will be releasing new shirts and posters--all designed and hand printed by CAPRA! Created from our very hands for your wearing pleasure. We'd also love to hear any ideas on types of items you guys would like to see. Sweatshirts? Bags? Underwear? haha. Any input from our fans will be greatly appreciated. Other than that we are currently in the process of recording, and we're all very excited for what is to come. Just a little longer and we'll have some funky tunes to vibe out to along with that new tee. Thanks for all your support! Enjoy and spread the word about the new store!!!
CAPRAlove.
Friday, December 11, 2009
Q&A with CAPRA. Part 2.
1. Do you guys have any pets if so what kinds? Morale boosting dogs and cat.
2. What was your favorite song to write and record and what is your favorite song to perform? I'm sure it varies between us all, but our new music definitely has us stoked! Although we've yet to perform any of it.
3. What is Your New Album going to sound like? Sexy.
4. How did you decide on what genre of music you were going to do? Still haven't decided haha
5. Do you guys listen to the same kind of music or different kinds?? A lot of the same, but we're always introducing each other to new music as well.
6. What do you guys like to do for fun? Gallivant till dawn. Surf. Read. Paint. Write. Bake. Get baked. Hike. Etc.
7. If you guys never met (thankfully you did!) what kind of career would you pursue? Wizardry. All of us.
8. What is a gadet or thing you can't live without? A lighter.
9. CAPRA Became well known within a couple days what was that leap to fame like?? For us, we've been writing music together for 4 years now and slowly gaining recognition. We have acquired a lot of new fans since the debut of "Low Day" but we still feel like we have much bigger things to accomplish.
Thanks for all the Love and support. Our fans are pretty freakin rad...and thanks Katy Wells for the questions.
Monday, December 7, 2009
Q&A with CAPRA
1. How did you guys meet and decide to start a band?
Paul and Jeff are brothers that took a liking in playing music together. Jeff and Shelby met at work, consequently the three of them took a liking in creating music together. They met Kelly because the Bros. father works with Kelly's mother, and Kelly happened to have a similar taste in music; thus, deciding to write some tunes together. Kelly had met Michael through a friend, they had a mutual dedication to the power of music, so Kelly brought Michael into jam. The conception of CAPRA.
2. Do you guys have more of a best friend relationship or a brother relationship? Brothers, pretty much a family.
3. What was your inspriration for "Low Day" and what does it mean to you? It started on a hazy car ride through a california summer day. We noticed all the young innocent love taking place on concrete driveways, beautiful weather, fresh air of the ocean, and a moment of exaltation which spawned some simple lyrics. The lyrics were turned into a melody which soon grew into the song that you currently listen to. All that happened about 3 months ago.
4. Who are you influenced by? Everything under the umbrella of music and a few stray dogs playing in the rain.
5. You guys have some pretty creative lyrics where do you come up...... with them? Pretty much any experience can spark some inspiration. Just living. Certain ritualistic practices. Singing in the shower.
6. If you could record a duet with anyone dead or alive who would it be? "Show me the way to the next whiskey bar..."
7. So Kelly in aaron stone you play a video game hero do you guys have any favorite video games? Mario cart
8. Do you plan on going on tour soon? Yes! And we can't wait to play for you guys.
9. If you could tour anywhere in the world where would it be? The entire world twenty times at once.
10. What is your ultimate goal for your music as far as where it is going and what you want to do in the future? To continue to create music that we enjoy and feel properly expresses where we're at. We always want to continue to evolve and develop and gain new perspectives on the music we create.
Sunday, November 22, 2009
CAPRA Low Day Lyrics
Low Day will be released on iTunes tomorrow Nov. 23!! It's only 99 cents so you'll still have a shiny copper Lincoln to flick down a wishing well. We appreciate the LOVE and we appreciate YOU.
CAPRA
"Low Day"
Red, Blue, Green lights
Flicker undercover
Miss me like no other.
Blackout trailblazing
Jokin' underwater
Miss me like no other.
We get a little lonesome
We get a little low sometimes.
And what you say
Just fades away
Get down on a low day.
Black dress, gang of rouge
She won't eve bother
Miss me like no other.
Time laid back on the sea
We're gonna sail the world
While we are fast asleep.
We get a little lonesome
We get a little low sometimes.
And what you say
Just fades away
Get down on a low day.
I get mine, I get mine
Little Gucci little mama
Ain't worth my time.
We get a little lonesome
We get a little low sometimes.
And what you say
Just fades away
Get down on a low day.
CAPRA
"Low Day"
Red, Blue, Green lights
Flicker undercover
Miss me like no other.
Blackout trailblazing
Jokin' underwater
Miss me like no other.
We get a little lonesome
We get a little low sometimes.
And what you say
Just fades away
Get down on a low day.
Black dress, gang of rouge
She won't eve bother
Miss me like no other.
Time laid back on the sea
We're gonna sail the world
While we are fast asleep.
We get a little lonesome
We get a little low sometimes.
And what you say
Just fades away
Get down on a low day.
I get mine, I get mine
Little Gucci little mama
Ain't worth my time.
We get a little lonesome
We get a little low sometimes.
And what you say
Just fades away
Get down on a low day.
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
CAPRAdelic 02.2: From the Hilltop
Interview and Photography by Miguel Cedillo
Once we found a high spot with a view away from the power lines we rested a while to get our minds right. When we set out I had intended to perform an interview of some kind but had let go of the formality two summits ago. Usually if we weren't pre-occupied we'd talk about music or movies and sometimes girls, or we would swap stories from fated nights and wayward trips. I had a pen and pad though, so I had to ask them something.
Q: When do y'all usually go on a hike like this?
Shelby: "Usually after we've been writing or laying down a demo for a while. This hike was pretty long but we could still go a lot further."
Jeff: "We like to get out here especially because its quiet, you know? It's cool to hang out without having to work on stuff the whole time, so if we're not working we're always doing something like this."
Q: Why is that down time so important?
Jeff: "To me, its like, since we first started playing together we've spent a lot of time as a group. It's to the point that if we aren't being active or getting food we're just doing music."
Paul: "Haha yeah, we'll do this before we play or after, but usually after. We try to maintain a balance with music and everything else, but we want to play. My favorite part of music has always been the process, we all love it."
Q: How would you describe yourselves as individuals within the group?
Shelby: "Do you mean ourselves, or eachother?"
I laughed. "Well, eachother?"
Paul smiled and looked both ways to his band mates. Jeff grinned and lowered his chin two inches with an "Oh, man," then turned right toward his brother. Shelby didn't flinch.
Shelby: "That's pretty tough to characterize internally." The other two agreed.
Paul: (Huge smile) "Well, Jeff is the klutz. He's usually the last one to drive. Shelby and Michael are the responsible ones."
Q: What's the order of preferred drivers? From the best down to Jeff.
Paul: "Michael's a good driver, but usually Shelby takes over after a long night. He's the rational one."
Shelby: "Ha, yeah. It usually goes me, Michael, Paul, Kelly, then Jeff, and Kelly practically never drives so that tells you how often we let Jeff."
Jeff: "It's much better that way. Trust me."
Q: What about during the writing process? What are your roles?
Jeff: "You know, its sort of tough to look at it like that because we're really committed to playing as a team, and we understand that writing is a PROCESS. We focus on that a lot and we're really good about working together until we feel like its perfect. I feel like each one of us is always looking for new ways to be perfect, because for us the best process equals the best results."
Paul: "For sure, we always try to get the idea to a song as quickly as possible."
Jeff: "Yeah, man, most writer's blocks come from just over thinking it."
Shelby: "I think that's always been our thing. The songs just come from moments and we all contribute when we feel it. It's tough when Kelly's away, obviously, because he's really good with making the melody and with lyrics, but we all write lyrics together, even on the phone, and of course that can affect the way things come out. But when we're here playing in the studio instrumentally we just listen to each other and build from those spontaneous ideas that, you know, could have started in the car or something."
The guys found this funny, especially Shelby who engineers the rough cuts from home. He once walked me through the process and let me hear a voicemail from an airport that later evolved in to "Mirage".
Paul: "There's definitely a fine line between thinking about it too much and just pursuing the vision when its right there. We keep the process moving, we're really at our individual bests when we're playing as a team. Michael, man, Michael's got a lot of energy in the studio, too, it gets us going. We definitely all know how we work and we let everyone do their thing. We let everyone speak or else it can't happen."
Shelby: "That's the biggest thing. We all respect each other. We don't pull pranks or mess with each other too badly. It's like what we were talking about before, being a family. We're together all the time; on the road, in a two room apartment, whatever. Because of that making music just happens naturally. We do it because we're already there and we want to."
Up next: CAPRA hits the studio.
Once we found a high spot with a view away from the power lines we rested a while to get our minds right. When we set out I had intended to perform an interview of some kind but had let go of the formality two summits ago. Usually if we weren't pre-occupied we'd talk about music or movies and sometimes girls, or we would swap stories from fated nights and wayward trips. I had a pen and pad though, so I had to ask them something.
Q: When do y'all usually go on a hike like this?
Shelby: "Usually after we've been writing or laying down a demo for a while. This hike was pretty long but we could still go a lot further."
Jeff: "We like to get out here especially because its quiet, you know? It's cool to hang out without having to work on stuff the whole time, so if we're not working we're always doing something like this."
Q: Why is that down time so important?
Jeff: "To me, its like, since we first started playing together we've spent a lot of time as a group. It's to the point that if we aren't being active or getting food we're just doing music."
Paul: "Haha yeah, we'll do this before we play or after, but usually after. We try to maintain a balance with music and everything else, but we want to play. My favorite part of music has always been the process, we all love it."
Q: How would you describe yourselves as individuals within the group?
Shelby: "Do you mean ourselves, or eachother?"
I laughed. "Well, eachother?"
Paul smiled and looked both ways to his band mates. Jeff grinned and lowered his chin two inches with an "Oh, man," then turned right toward his brother. Shelby didn't flinch.
Shelby: "That's pretty tough to characterize internally." The other two agreed.
Paul: (Huge smile) "Well, Jeff is the klutz. He's usually the last one to drive. Shelby and Michael are the responsible ones."
Q: What's the order of preferred drivers? From the best down to Jeff.
Paul: "Michael's a good driver, but usually Shelby takes over after a long night. He's the rational one."
Shelby: "Ha, yeah. It usually goes me, Michael, Paul, Kelly, then Jeff, and Kelly practically never drives so that tells you how often we let Jeff."
Jeff: "It's much better that way. Trust me."
Q: What about during the writing process? What are your roles?
Jeff: "You know, its sort of tough to look at it like that because we're really committed to playing as a team, and we understand that writing is a PROCESS. We focus on that a lot and we're really good about working together until we feel like its perfect. I feel like each one of us is always looking for new ways to be perfect, because for us the best process equals the best results."
Paul: "For sure, we always try to get the idea to a song as quickly as possible."
Jeff: "Yeah, man, most writer's blocks come from just over thinking it."
Shelby: "I think that's always been our thing. The songs just come from moments and we all contribute when we feel it. It's tough when Kelly's away, obviously, because he's really good with making the melody and with lyrics, but we all write lyrics together, even on the phone, and of course that can affect the way things come out. But when we're here playing in the studio instrumentally we just listen to each other and build from those spontaneous ideas that, you know, could have started in the car or something."
The guys found this funny, especially Shelby who engineers the rough cuts from home. He once walked me through the process and let me hear a voicemail from an airport that later evolved in to "Mirage".
Paul: "There's definitely a fine line between thinking about it too much and just pursuing the vision when its right there. We keep the process moving, we're really at our individual bests when we're playing as a team. Michael, man, Michael's got a lot of energy in the studio, too, it gets us going. We definitely all know how we work and we let everyone do their thing. We let everyone speak or else it can't happen."
Shelby: "That's the biggest thing. We all respect each other. We don't pull pranks or mess with each other too badly. It's like what we were talking about before, being a family. We're together all the time; on the road, in a two room apartment, whatever. Because of that making music just happens naturally. We do it because we're already there and we want to."
Up next: CAPRA hits the studio.
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