Castellan

Castellan (KA-stl-uh n) is a band. It's tough to know how to present ourselves in a band bio, because if the music isn't saying what we want to say, then we have a problem with our music. But we don't have a problem with our music and just taking a listen should give you a good idea about who we are and what we're all about. The band includes a few of your typical California college students who enjoy having a good time, being radical, snowboarding, and generally doing Californian things such as...pretty much everything. We just recently changed the band name, but don't panic, the band is still sticking together. We all just felt that it was time for a change, evolution was a good thing for humans, right? So we decided to pick a new stage name to represent where we think our music is going. It's kind of tough to tell where that is going, but it's nonetheless going somewhere.We released an album in January to inaugerate the new band name and what not. The album is self-titled and again featured the cover art of Jordan Ma, who did the awesome artwork on our last album as Jake Jolly and The Radical Youth.As a band we have turned a new leaf and now the leaf is on fire, or something like that.The album which has been released and will be available soon through cdbaby.com is a ten track album that we recorded in December. For this album the band has decided to doing something that we feel is important and the least we can do. Extreme Poverty is a world issue that is too often ignored and neglected when seemingly feasable solutions exist. Much more information and detail can be found at sites such as ONE.ORG, and AIDSINAFRICA.NET. For this album 100% of our earnings will be given to CARE.ORG, a four star charity group that working to make a difference in the fight against world poverty and an assortment of other issues. The idea is that hopefully this plan will increase album sales, which will help get the band heard and in the process we will, with your help, raise money to give to charity. Poverty is an issue that needs to be faced and solved in our generation, and this band plans to do everything it can to help. 100% of the bands profit from album sales will go to CARE.ORG and the fight against poverty in developing countries"CARE tackles underlying causes of poverty so that people can become self-sufficient. Recognizing that women and children suffer disproportionately from poverty, CARE places special emphasis on working with women to create permanent social change. Women are at the heart of CARE's community-based efforts to improve basic education, prevent the spread of HIV, increase access to clean water and sanitation, expand economic opportunity and protect natural resources. CARE also delivers emergency aid to survivors of war and natural disasters, and helps people rebuild their lives". http://www.careusa.org/index.asp 100% of the bands profit from album sales will go to CARE.ORG and the fight against poverty in developing countries