Singer, Songwriter and Multi-instrumentalist. Have a listen to my new music project WINSOME KIND www.winsomekind.com

Rugged, raspy, and roaring with charisma, Ben Caplan’s voice is to song as smoke is to bourbon: perfectly coupled. He is a songwriter and performer who is bold in both range and ferocity. The music is fuelled by a quality of melodrama and powerful lyricism that sets Caplan apart from his peers. Either solo or backed by his band, The Casual Smokers, Ben Caplan has captured the attention of music fans and media across Canada, Australia, and throughout Europe.

Ben Caplan is supported by upright bass, drums, Eastern European inspired strings, and occasionally horns. Ben himself moves between guitar and piano, marking his place in the world's music landscape with an outrageous musicality and a growling spirit. 
 
Besides writing and recording, Ben Caplan is almost perpetually on tour, having played more than 1000 shows since the release of his debut album in late 2011. His songs, his voice, his humour, and his charm collude to create a rhapsodically energetic live show – an elegant cacophony drawing fans in ever widening circles.

On the strength of his debut album, In The Time of the Great Remembering, Ben Caplan won numerous Canadian awards, including Nova Scotia’s 2012 Entertainer of the Year and the East Coast Music Award for Rising Star Recording of the Year for 2013. He’s shared stages with acts ranging from Grizzly Bear and Dirty Projectors to The Staves and Blondie. In addition to his 1000+ club shows, He’s played major festivals around the world including the UK’s Glastonbury in 2013.

In 2015, Ben Caplan will continue to break new ground with dates planned across North America and around the world. His highly anticipated second album, Birds with Broken Wings, is prospected to be released internationally in fall of 2015.

I make music and curate live music events at Guilt & Company in Historic Gastown. 

Keep it real.


SubTrack Records is a multi genre record label.
Offices in Vancouver CA & London UK
Demo Submit: https://www.facebook.com/SubTrackRecs
Part of the Six of 1 Music group that also houses Urban Hit Promotions.
www.Sixof1Music.com
www.UrbanHitPromotions.com

Green Couch Sessions is a series of experiments in which we attempt to marry the artist with the environment. The music fills the space and the various locations inevitably produce a sound unique to the session, never to be reproduced, only to be enjoyed by you, the viewers.




The night is growing bright.
moons illuminate the last petals
as the flowers all fall to the light.


Previous projects : 

Underlion
Facts
Mustachio

Ongoing projects :

Hansoff Gustav
Windy Passage


Started in 2011 by brothers Javier and Victor Badillo, Caracas plays Latin-influenced punk rock that has been compared with the Talking Heads, Santana, Gogol Bordello and Pixies, among many others.

Their lyrics share the immigrant experience and the Venezuelan struggle, delivered in big party anthems and intimate "sonadas" (Latin waltzes) on a Cuatro guitar (a Venezuelan ukelele), all adding up to a thoroughly entertaining live performance. 

Caracas new EP "Bring on the Playtime" (Spring 2016) was produced by South African-Canadian producer Dylan Ellis (Hokum, Rami Lakkis), and was recorded in Vancouver's iconic Fader Mountain / The Farm studios and at DeVille Studios, tucked in a small East Vancouver neighborhood. The songs take the band's most popular tunes from the past five years and turns them on their head, showcasing the evolution of Caracas from a two-piece garage band to a five-piece Latin rock party machine!

A music video for their new single "Bring on the Playtime" (2016) directed by Shaun Walford is now online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fKiRCvYYHs

Their single "Bring on the Playtime" is the theme song for the new microbrewery doc webseries "Vancouver On Tap" (2016). A number of their songs are featured in the independent movies "The Cover-Up" (2013) and "Naked Night Bike" (2014). 

Caracas performed on Vancouver's Shaw TV Channel 4 for "Canadian Sound Arts Therapy Show", a community-driven show. The episode originally aired in the spring of 2015.

In June 2015, Caracas was invited to perform on the World Beat Stage of the 27th Annual Rio Tinto Alcan Dragon Boat Festival, the largest of its kind in North America!

Caracas is an active member of SOCAN, ASCAP and BMI, managed by Vancouver-based Dead Straight Music Publishing.


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