Author: Berkeley Cat Records

We’re from Berkeley. We are cats. We make records.

I Promise Not To Drunk Text Bobby About Getting The Band Back Together, by Eric Din

Berkeley Cat Records cannot verify the veracity of any of the statements herein, but we HAVE signed up diligently, for Ska Yodeling lessons.

https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/ericdin/i-promise-not-to-drunk-text-bobby-about-getting-the-band-back-together

Astonishingly, Songs From The Garden by Russ Ellis goes Streaming, Oct. 11!

Why October 11? Oh because October 11, campers, and because Apollo 11.

Songs From The Garden – full-length album by Russ Ellis & fam, came out on November 20, 2021 exclusively on CD and Bandcamp, where it shall ever reside as long as the electrons shall flow. The BIG Mews is that now it is available for pre-order at iTunes, for all our beloved Apple Music users. Here is that momentous link:

https://music.apple.com/us/album/songs-from-the-garden/1839923501

Spotifiers can “pre-save” it, too, whatever that means. AND when it goes live in those venues on October 11, it will at the same time be live at ALL the streaming services from pillar to post, sea to shining sea, hither and yon.

Garden well.

Russ and daughter Zoe, who also sings on the record

Just Waiting For The Rain, by Eric Din

Our very own Eric Din is up to his record-making shenanigans again, this time in a folk-rocky mood. Per the artist, “I don’t believe I’ve made a rain song, before. Well, now I have!” We applaud this and also laud the excellent attire on Berkeley Cat himself, who adorns the cover. May the rains come when you need them, literally, metaphorically or however you like. Here is Just Waiting For The Rain

“Harbor Bay” new single from FAVES/Larry Lynch

Now sailing into blissful horizons at a beach near you

Once again our FAVES have faved a favorite feeling and we’re onboard for the sail. Composed by Larry Lynch and Robbie Dunbar and recorded by the FAVES at their favorite 25th Street sweet spot, Harbor Bay is now available to enjoy and fave at all of your streaming station locations. Here’s a handy widget to join them in the audio sweetness of Harbor Bay:

https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/faveslarrylynch/harbor-bay

It’s a sweet song about remembering a lovely love affair in a lovely place, and I expect it’ll be a new fave for some of the deejays and radio stations who have embraced the FAVES’ singles over recent years. Applause!

This Worldly World launches into.. The Worldly Streaming World!

Reprinting from our mewsletter:

AND in the spirit of completion, on this lovely foggy morning, I just uploaded my This Worldly World album to the streaming services of the worldly world. It’ll land in said places in the next few days and then you can play it in your Pandora and Spotifys and Apples and Oranges. OK, no oranges but DEEZERs, yes Deezers! Gesundheit.

The pieces we were waiting for, before taking this momentous leap, were some voice memos from a few of our pals, who dutifully chimed in on “Whoops, this is the wrong future,” for the fade-out on track 14! The finale, if you will. Took me a minute to mix that all to my liking, and I enjoy the result, and hope y’all might as well.

The whole album will also remain in perpetuity, apocalypses notwithstanding, at our beloved Bandcamp! At which, it happens to be Bandcamp Friday. Bandcamp is not a streaming service, it is a different thing in this worldly world.

There it is ^ ! Not terribly hard to find.

I decided a little while ago, after MUCH contemplation and consternation, to release Berkeley Cat Records’ records to ALL of the streaming outlets, AND Bandcamp. There are some good arguments for NOT doing it this way, and argue with myself I did, but this is my conclusion, and I doubt I’ll change my mind on the subject.

Can I share this exciting moment with you? I do get a thrill out of this..

That’s the last step in the Distrokid interface, after the songs are written, recorded, mixed and mastered, puzzled and pawed at, played with and pondered, the great heave-ho to send them up from this bedroom producer’s desk into the streaming wilds. I LOVE some aspects of The Future! Heck, we talk on video like freakin’ Star Trek with friends a thousand miles away, there’s just so much cool about our present day. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” wrote Charles Dickens, but did he have ANY FREAKING IDEA what was coming?! I cannot know.

Near the end of my song, Dystopian Hot Mess, I sing, “..And baby we’re so blessed, if we only knew it.” This album is informed by everything that’s happening, good and bad, crazy and sane, the worldly world through my often astonished eyes. I hope it gives you some laughs and smiles along your journey.

And off I go, for a little river adventure with my esteemed colleague and UpTones fellow, The Rev. Paul Jackson! Who knows, maybe we’ll come up with a tune? It’s been known to happen.

Carpe Diem,

Din