Category: Eric Din

Sensible Comments

Eric Din’s Sensible Comments album goes live in the many streaming services on April the first. Because of course it does. You may now hear the completed work and purchase it at our besotted Bandcamp.

On Top Of The World all over the world

Eric Din’s On Top Of The World EP is now live in the streaming services and our beloved Bandcamp. This includes the single version, the Charles Stella dub version, and the instrumental version. It’s actually on all of the streaming services this time, unlike some of our earlier releases.  This widget contains links to the album on a few of the more popular ones:

https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/ericdin/on-top-of-the-world-ep

And here’s a Bandcamp embedded player, long may they camp:

We invite you to listen for free or purchase, and share links on your favorite social platforms or, shockingly, tell your friends over coffee in person (whaaaaat?! who DOES that?) Cheers and Happy Caturday

On Top Of The World and It Is Now Safe To Turn Off Your Computer – Two wildly different singles from Eric Din

To say Eric Din‘s output is eclectic might be an understatement, and he’s been on some kind of roll lately. After releasing the unambiguously SKA Rabbitus Maximus in January, he’s produced and released these two new singles, and it’s halfway through February. What’s going on over there, Din?

This one just went up today – On Top Of The World

Here’s a G-Drive folder for any of you marvelous radio deejays who would like a free download for broadcast:  Clicketh

Here’s the description from Eric’s Bandcamp:

I recorded this at home two weeks ago with analog and digital gear. The song has been in the works for much longer, mostly in my head. I had the chords and melodies and some of the lyrics swimming about, til one day I felt inspired to track some drums and bass and guitars and see where that might lead. I recorded the vocal melody on guitar at first, as a sort of guide track, and once I had that, the rest of the lyrics came pretty easily. Once the song was complete and I had the vocals down, the track beckoned for tambourine and cowbell. So I picked up said hand-percussion instruments from a local music shoppe, took them home and and overdubbed them. By this time in the whole process, the song had pretty much mixed itself. So here it is, live on Bandcamp on Caturday the 17th of February. And I have it set to go live in the various streaming services exactly four weeks from today. Because this is how we roll, at Berkeley Cat Records. The cats and I wish you all a might fine long presidenty weekend, on top of the world.

While the above track is unmistakably pop-rock, with elements of glam and mod and a dash of psychedelia, the one below bears no resemblance to it that we can discern, and we wonder if our Din requires professional help.

It Is Now Safe To Turn Off Your Computer would seem to be a poetry slam type of howl, only instead of Beatnicky bongos we have the full drum kit power of Eric’s fellow UpTones founder, Thomas White, as edited and re-fangled by Mr. Din.

Ostrich and upside down persons by Shannon Wheeler.

Most of the above including “Rabbitus” were produced entirely by Eric Din at his home studio. This marks a slight departure from previous outings like “Charlotte” and “1983” which involved some other fab musicians and studios. We ask again, what is going on over there, Din?  What kind of music DO you make?

Tapping his whiskers thoughtfully Din replied, “I guess I’ll find out.”

RABBITUS MAXIMUS

And so it came to pass, on January the First, Two Thousand and Twenty Four Anno Domini, Eric Din did compose and record a new SKA song, and the happy dancing rabbits did rejoice.

You may find it here, and we encourage this ->

Deejays, radio friends, rabbits and cats, you are also welcome to download the audio and song info from this convenient G-Drive folder for easy access for your shows and blogs and pods and mods.

Happy 2024 from all of us at Berkeley Cat Rabbits.

A Caterwaul Rebottle!

Eric Din played a solo acoustic set at Down Home Music on August 12, 2023, and now the full audio is now available (again!) to download.  This is NOT on the streaming services as it had been, briefly. We didn’t love the way the spoken banter tracks were showing up in random streams, and didn’t want to merge the banter audio with the song tracks, so, the solution is you may DOWNLOAD the album if’n ya like!

Here it is at:

iTunes

and

Amazon.

Here’s the original show flier:

Caterwaul along with the fam and cats and doggies!

Charlotte in the Garden of the New Futility

HOT off the proverbial presses, here is Eric Din’s latest and greatest.

Waving at the neighbors “Hi!” as the waves crash in,
They look at me and don’t know why, like “Hi, whatever,”
No one talks anymore, no one walks in this town,
Hardly notice myself when I take a look ’round,
Chasing my lost angels through the smog and glory,
Elvis and The Runaways gaze from the HOLLYWOOD sign

And on the gridlock freeway,
Tuning in to float away

Never never never never never sleep, never, never never slow down,
Got a bridge back home to sell ya, and the moon as well
No one talks anymore, no one walks in this town,
Hardly notice my shoes when I look at the ground,
All of these lost angels are gone forever,
Never lookin’ back again, no never never,

And on the zombie freeway,
Casting directors casting doubt,
I’ll never be in your spillway,
I’m not in your secret club,

As I walk in the mall, with my eyes lookin’ down,
Staring at the glowing, gleaming showing,
Now I know the way, following what it say,
Never need to wonder, everything’s easy,
These machines will preen and vent spleen for me,
Waving at my hologram now, the neighbors smile,

And on the scarlet carpet,
Margot Robbie strides away,
And in the garden, Charlotte
Watches a charming marmot play,
And in the garden, Charlotte,
Margot Robbie strides away

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Guitarscape, Fender P-Bass, Vocals – Eric Din
1965 Ludwig Drums – Michael Urbano
Recorded by Michael Rosen at East Bay Recorders
2nd Engineer – Austin James Hicks
Produced and mixed by Eric Din for Berkeley Cat Records
Mastered by Michael Romanowski at Coast Mastering
Artwork by Shannon Wheeler

© 2023 Eric Roy Dinwiddie
King Roy Music, BMI