Recording for the "Por Vida" album was a monumental and arduous challenge for the members of the band. The Summer of 2017, as the band was doing preliminary recordings, founding member and drummer Sterling Fairfield was rushed to an emergency operation due to complications of Crohn's Disease. An ailment that Sterling dealt with his entire time gigging, recording and playing with Castle Pines, he nearly died on several occasions and had his entire lower intestine removed. This left the band in an unsure place for the recording of their album. Sterling, being the diehard loyalist to the band and message, struggled through weeks of recording in a cottage in Southern California, stitches fresh from an incision down his chest, and performed beautifully for the album. An album, with all odds against it, was recorded through perseverance through adversity, dedication and in no small part to the accommodating and kind efforts of Matthew Faulkner of Beta Waves Records who moved his entire studio to a cottage near the home of Sterling, in case he suffered another medical emergency.

The release of "Por Vida" the album that almost never was is a testament to staying the course and faithful commitment to the art in the pangs of heartache, ailment and suffering. The band is grateful for the love and support it has received from the online community, their fans and family and is eagerly excited to premier their latest work. In an industry exploited for commercial and financial gain by juggernaut corporatism, a little garage band, from the suburbs of California, protesting the status quo and proclaiming the importance of art and music, loyalty, persistence and honesty is a fresh and needed voice in the stifling noise of the modern market. Thank you, and remember that Castle Pines is for life homie.

1. Cassiopeia
2. Woo Hoo
3. March Mellow
4. Swim Team Sucker
5. Scenester
6. Change of Time
7. Castle Pines (the song)

Listen to: the entire album.

Release date: 4/4/2020
Castle Pines lives in Oregon USA

Tagged as: Alt Rock, Pop, Rock, Indie Rock

1. Music of Fernando Sor by Daniel Estrem: colorful classical guitar
2. A Lestampida by Dufay Collective: instrumental and vocal music from the Middle Ages and Reniassance
3. Brave New World by Sterling: sublime and ethereal electronic music
4. Cifras Selectas de Guitarra, Santiago de Murcia 1722 by Eduardo Figueroa and Oscar Ohlsen: Chilean baroque guitar duo
5. 'Twas in the Moon of Wintertime by Steve Eulberg: smile-inducing, toe-tapping folkgrass
6. Cry Wolf by Ehren Starks: piano and cello/jazzy new age
7. Two Romantic Piano Trios by Women Composers by Streicher Trio: classical chamber music on period instruments
8. Scenes of Travel by Eleanor Hodgkinson: beautifully crafted individual playing
9. Switch On - Switch Off by Strojovna 07: techno.
10. The Time Is Now by Electric Frankenstein: high energy punk rock & roll
11. Burgundy Rhymes by Suchitra Lata: Swirling Chillout, Ambient, World, Progressive Pop, Indian classical veena and much more in between
12. Reminiscence by Emiel Stopler: Filmic composer and acoustic fingerstyle guitarist
13. Mobius Strip by Suchitra Lata: Swirling Chillout, Ambient, World, Progressive Pop, Indian classical veena and much more in between
14. The Stuff of Fairy Tales by Emma Wallace: angst-free modern ragtime
15. The Vision Of Enoch by Sulis: heavenly, healing, early music
16. A Reason to Stay Up all Night by Emma Wallace: angst-free modern ragtime
17. Sundowner by Sundowner: shape-shifting space rock sound of vast drifting guitar-scapes
18. Formantine by Emmalee Crane: ambient, orchestral drone music
19. Among the Lasses, songs of Robert Burns (1759-1796) by Susan Rode Morris: early music delivered with a voluptuous voice and intensely focused delivery
20. Smoke Through It by Endless Blue: Trashy Beats, Melancholy Keys, Sultry Vocals

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