‘Cool Changes’
WA tour dates announced for March 2023 with more to follow
14 November, 2022
Nathan Cavaleri returns to the spotlight today with brand new single and video, Cool Changes (ABC Music). Download / stream HERE.
Self-produced with additional production and direction from Grammy Award-winning producer/engineer Andrew Scheps (Adele, Red Hot Chili Peppers), Cool Changes – a surf-inspired, indie-rock track – is the first of four singles Cavaleri will release ahead of his much-anticipated upcoming fourth album, scheduled for release next year. With its sauntering beat, multi-layered harmonies and meandering guitar riffs that shimmer like sun glitter, Cool Changes washes over like calming waves lapping against sun-kissed feet.
Watch ‘Cool Changes’
“Can’t catch a breath, yet I’m holding it/ Trying to heal a world with a hole in it… Maybe I should give myself over to these cool changes…”
Later on in this song’s arrangement, distant trumpet echoes the guitar lines and these overlapping melodies call for a moment of eyes-closed appreciation.
Although he’s “not a great surfer or anything”, Cavaleri admits, “I get so much out of it, and there are a lot of similarities between surfing, playing music and performing as well. You’ve gotta go with the flow; you’re essentially collaborating with nature. If I’m struggling, it feels like I’m on a hamster wheel and I’m exhausting myself. But when I’m having a good surf, it’s because I’m in a state of surrender.”
And it’s precisely this feeling of surrender – at one with nature: the scent of the ocean, the sound of the waves and the feeling of a sea breeze or splashing water – that Cavaleri captures through his swoon-worthy latest single, co-written by Tommy Gun – a regular surfing buddy and member of his live backing band.
Running parallel to the sentiment of Cool Changes is its dreamy accompanying music video, which follows two female surfers – Shelly Fitzpatrick and Keva Wilson from the band Tuppaware Party – on a road trip to surf the breaks of Stanwell Park and Bellambi beaches out Wollongong way. Enlisting a great videographer was essential and Mikey Conlon (Xavier Rudd) perfectly captured the action that naturally unfolded on the day of the shoot.
“I remember the editor flicking back a rough cut and I went, ‘This is awesome! It’s everything that I imagined in my head and it all happened just through going with the flow and surrendering, which was apt,” Cavaleri enthuses.
Cavaleri has worked with some of the world’s finest and most celebrated musicians across the course of his career, including Bonnie Raitt, Diesel and Mark Knopfler to name a select few.
Appearing as the subject of the ABC’s Australian Story in 2020, Cavaleri revealed, “Having that type of attention as a kid has both inspired me and haunted me.”
He was once labelled “the future of blues” by B.B. King and the soul searching that came from learning to let go of this title opened Cavaleri up to a world of Cool Changes.
Of his gradual sonic evolution, Cavaleri explains, “Blues has always been my home, but as the years went on it could only sometimes allow me to express what I wanted to express, and that’s when I started to venture out and experiment with different styles. It’s hard to escape my blues roots – you’re going to hear it through everything – but I think you’d probably struggle to put my next album in the blues genre on the shelf. But the blues is there; you can still hear it.”
Alongside Cool Changes, Cavaleri will also release a series of short conversations with pro surfers and fellow musicians who surf – including W.A. ‘slab wave’ surfer Kerby Brown (star of the feature-length documentary, Facing Monsters) and Ash Grunwald – about the psychological and spiritual aspects of surfing, and how the states of fear and flow integrate into their daily lives.
Cavaleri has documented his forthcoming record’s entire creative process (“songwriting, recording, producing, mixing – everything”) via the interactive livestreaming service, Twitch. “It kept me focused,” he commends. “I actually perform better and I’m more productive when I stream, because I have to be accountable. They’re stoked as well, because I don’t think a full album’s ever been created on Twitch.”
Cool Changes is out now via ABC Music. Download / stream HERE.
Cavaleri will embark on a national tour in 2023, preceded by a run of WA dates kicking off on March 2 in Fremantle and concluding on March 19 in Broome. Stay tuned for more touring details.
NATHAN CAVALERI LIVE – MARCH 2023*
Tickets on sale from 9am WST today
Thurs 2 March 2023 – Mojo’s, Fremantle
Tickets here
Fri 3 March 2023 – Froth Craft Brewery, Bunbury
*free show*
Sat 4 March & Sun 5 March 2023 – Nannup Music Festival
For more see here
Thur 9 March 2023 – The River, Margaret River
Tickets here
Fri 10 March 2023 – Six Degrees, Albany
Tickets here
Sat 11 March 2023 – Lucky Bay Brewery, Esperance
Tickets here
Wed 15 March 2023 – Regional Sounds, Geraldton
Tickets here
Fri 17 March 2023 – Froth Craft Brewery, Exmouth
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Sat 18 March 2023 – North West Brewing Co, Karratha
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Sun 19 March 2023 – Broome Civic Centre, Broome
Tickets here
*Touring supported by Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund, an Australian Government Initiative.