The Crime of Being Me
Catman Cohen
Performed By
Catman Cohen
Album UPC
602977041026
CD Baby Track ID
1081087
Label
Catman Cohen
Released
2005-01-01
BPM
118
Rated
0
ISRC
ushm20577105
Year
2005
Spotify Plays
902
Writers
Writer
Catman Cohen
Pub Co
Keevay Music
Composer
Catman Cohen
ClearanceFacebook Sync License,Traditional Sync,YouTube Sync ServiceOne Stop
Rights Controlled
Master and Publishing Grant
Rights
One-Stop: Master + 100% Pub Grant
Original/Cover/Public Domain
original
Country
United States - California - LA
Description
"Dark, dreamy, haunting, sexy songs like you would find in a Donnie Darko film."
Notes
After purchasing a $200 piano from a family in Inglewood, California in 2003, Catman Cohen was reborn.
It is said to be a magical piano containing spirits of many dead composers who guide Catman to find his unique sound. Late at night, he speaks with them and listens to secrets of the Yahweh chord, upon which all of Catman's music composition is based.
The Yahweh chord comes directly from Heaven and, when it is played, soothes the pain of the world and softens the hardest of souls. Every one of Catman's songs contains the Yahweh chord and without it, there would be no Catman song. Without it, there would be no Catman.
With each passing day, Catman struggles to preserve his inner light. Having passed through various trials and tribulations, he now emerges as a compelling, mysterious, songwriter.
It is said that the day he found the Key to the Stars while traveling through the desert, She saved him from ruin. She taught him how to rekindle his inner fire. Now Catman attempts to heal the world through his music, if only as mere brick in a formidable wall.
Catman opposes the current Cult of Celebrity and chooses to make his songs the focus, NOT himself. He believes the country urgently needs new heroes who toil within essential vocations now in crisis.
With the help of his two musical interpreters... producer/arranger Henry Iglesias and engineer/mixer James Lum...Catman shapes his music.
Assisting him are devoted artist-friends:
They include exceptional vocalists Jimmy Swan, Amy Court, Elly K, Molly Zenobia, Ronee Martin, Thomas Hunter, Jeanette Turner, Ben "Mobius" Simoff, Vessy Mink, Barbara Ochoa, Shasta Strange....plus divine musicians like George Englund, Eliah Levy, Jim McCarty, Malcolm Watson, and more.
Catman extends a special invitation for you to join his dreamscape and welcome his melodies and words into your heart.
10% of CD sales proceeds to be donated to NURSES FOR A HEALTHIER TOMORROW
(www.nursesource.org)
10% of CD sales proceeds to be donated to CANADIAN NURSES FOUNDATION
(www.canadiannursesfoundation.com)
_____
Reviews:
“I absolutely LOVE his voice. It has to be one of the deepest I have heard. Like a giant toad with laryngitis singing in the center of a spacious hollow planet.”
Reviewed by Marcus Stanlec
WTFMusic.org
March 11, 2010
----
"How I Want to Die has a distinct tendency to become strange, and some of the time that strangeness works wonders. The songs work more often than not, are strange more often than not and aren't about to be mistaken for anything else any time soon."
Reviewed by Paul de Bruijn
www.Rambles.net
April 25, 2009
---
"On first listening, there’s an operatic feel to all the songs; big emotions expressed through souls in turmoil.I feel as though I’m listening to cuts describing certain scenes in an opera that could be tied together if I could just get hold of the script. The subject matter is death, disillusion, dark alleys of the heart, despair, decay. Don’t have a gun by your side when you’re listening to this CD."
Reviewed by Jeremiah Sutherland
Bullfrog Music
http://www.bullfrogmusic.com
July 17, 2008
---
"The music, with its talented keyboard playing, makes a good background to Catman’s acquired-taste Serge Gainsbourg style vocals."
Reviewed by Gary Levinson
Indie Music Review
http://www.indiemusicreview.net
May 24, 2008
---
"Think Chris Rea and Nick Cave on holiday with Leonard Cohen watching a Tarantino movie."
Reviewed by Dave Chislett
Matchbox Radio 24
http://www.matchboxrecordings.co.uk/artists/sitb2
December 23, 2007
---
"The raw poetry, the depth of feeling and caring, the times when he is really lucid and the sheer good music in many cuts are such that Cohen is worth checking out."
Reviewed by Jay Levin
Real Talk LA
http://www.realtalkla.com/
December 21, 2007
---
"The nursing shortage in America has been memorialized in song and video by an unlikely hero named Catman Cohen whose body of work has struck a raw nerve in this country."
Mary Ruff-King, Author
http://ezinearticles.com/?expert_bio=Mary_Ruff-King
September 17, 2007
---
"We need more brave musicians and artists like Catman Cohen. It is interesting, but sad, to see how concerned citizens like Cohen and others get censored and excluded by the Illuminati puppets, and other ignorant, 'useful idiots,' to quote the Illuminati themselves."
__Wes Penre, Publisher
Illuminati News
http://www.illuminati-news.com
August 8, 2007
---
"It's an interesting mixture: ethereal female vocals over a vaguely new age sound layer, covered with gritty street lyrics and a gravelly voice back-up...
One wonders if a face-to-face meeting with 'Catman' would be anything other than seriously weird."
Carl F Gauze
INK19
http://www.ink19.com/
February 22, 2007
--------------
"Catman Cohen's series of music CD's are becoming the talk of the town."
Kat Kramer
Entertainment Today
http://www.entertainmenttodayonline.com
April 7, 2006
---
"Definitely different are the two words that best describe Catman Cohen's music."
Reviewed by Joeri De Ren (Antwerp, Belgium)
http://www.dogmatik.be
December 29, 2005
---
"Catman Cohen is a force of nature... How I Want To Die is one of the most emotionally powerful works I have come across in a long time."
Reviewed by JJ Biener
www.musesmuse.com
November 22, 2005
---
"Catman is deep and mysterious and he writes from his heart. I like his composition and unpredictability at times. I think he has a dark way of looking at a bright situation."
Reviewed by Ian Cole/ Shauntelle Hamlett
UNSIGNED Music Magazine
September 3, 2005
---
"HOW I WANT TO DIE is dark and dramatic yet hopeful in its intent to inspire positive changes in a world gone bad."
Reviewed by Laura Turner Lynch
www.kweevak.com
July 4, 2005
---
"HOW I WANT TO DIE would be perfect for a musical.... because the songs almost seem to be like scenes from something greater than an album....
The strange, bizarre, and twisted cover of Kylie Minogue's CAN'T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD (is) so over the top and gravelly that it's amazing. It simply has to be heard to be believed...Interesting to say the least."
Reviewed by Paul Zimmerman
First Coast News, ABC 25, NBC 12 (Jacksonville, Florida)
June 23, 2005
---
"(Catman) is obviously mad as a march hare, a hatter and a box of Frogs all holed up together in a looney ward.... there's occasional sparks of peculiar brilliance."
Reviewed by Chris Prewett
www.subba-cultcha.com
June 13, 2005
---
"I found myself wanting to listen to the words a number of times for
their depth and realism."
Terry Evanshen, "The Man Who Lost Himself"
www.terryevanshen.com
June 10, 2005
---
"In PRAYER FOR AMERICA, I wholeheartedly endorse your message, particularly the rejection of materialism, what really matters, and the plea for return to sanity in our nation's values.... If the public can only hear one of your songs from this album, let it be PRAYER FOR AMERICA."
Mary Lightfine, Founder and President
Volunteers Without Boundaries
www.volunteerswithoutboundaries.com
May 23, 2005
---
"HOW I WANT TO DIE constitutes the darkest 75 minutes most people will experience in their entire lives. It is nothing less than a poignant reflection of America in decline, the final musical and lyrical gasps of a collapsing Empire...and it is brilliant...Take a close listen to Catman's remake of the Kylie Minogue party hit, CAN'T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD. Catman's suicide version will be requested repeatedly on radio stations across the world by those shell-shocked fans of the song who simply cannot believe what he did to it."
Reviewed by Marc Seltzer
www.LAsplash.com
April 29, 2005
---
"Having listened to your CD, I certainly have similar sentiments that you express. Although I'm not a person who listens to music with words on it, I am not sure I feel qualified to comment. But I feel great peril...I feel Bush is worse than Hitler. I feel we live in a society numb from television without the directed intelligence or compassion to lead a Love Revolution we need...and I appreciate anybody trying to do something about that."
Patch Adams, Social Activist
www.patchadams.org
April 27, 2005
---
"The disc is innovative, there is no denying it - what is really exciting during HOW I WANT TO DIE is Cohen's burning desire to work through any constrictions (working in a pop and rock domain) and make vital, thriving music in genres that were previously thought tapped out...There are moments during HOW I WANT TO DIE that are amongst the most impressive snippets of music heard this year."
James McQuiston, Editor
www.neufutur.com
April 5, 2005
---
It is said to be a magical piano containing spirits of many dead composers who guide Catman to find his unique sound. Late at night, he speaks with them and listens to secrets of the Yahweh chord, upon which all of Catman's music composition is based.
The Yahweh chord comes directly from Heaven and, when it is played, soothes the pain of the world and softens the hardest of souls. Every one of Catman's songs contains the Yahweh chord and without it, there would be no Catman song. Without it, there would be no Catman.
With each passing day, Catman struggles to preserve his inner light. Having passed through various trials and tribulations, he now emerges as a compelling, mysterious, songwriter.
It is said that the day he found the Key to the Stars while traveling through the desert, She saved him from ruin. She taught him how to rekindle his inner fire. Now Catman attempts to heal the world through his music, if only as mere brick in a formidable wall.
Catman opposes the current Cult of Celebrity and chooses to make his songs the focus, NOT himself. He believes the country urgently needs new heroes who toil within essential vocations now in crisis.
With the help of his two musical interpreters... producer/arranger Henry Iglesias and engineer/mixer James Lum...Catman shapes his music.
Assisting him are devoted artist-friends:
They include exceptional vocalists Jimmy Swan, Amy Court, Elly K, Molly Zenobia, Ronee Martin, Thomas Hunter, Jeanette Turner, Ben "Mobius" Simoff, Vessy Mink, Barbara Ochoa, Shasta Strange....plus divine musicians like George Englund, Eliah Levy, Jim McCarty, Malcolm Watson, and more.
Catman extends a special invitation for you to join his dreamscape and welcome his melodies and words into your heart.
10% of CD sales proceeds to be donated to NURSES FOR A HEALTHIER TOMORROW
(www.nursesource.org)
10% of CD sales proceeds to be donated to CANADIAN NURSES FOUNDATION
(www.canadiannursesfoundation.com)
_____
Reviews:
“I absolutely LOVE his voice. It has to be one of the deepest I have heard. Like a giant toad with laryngitis singing in the center of a spacious hollow planet.”
Reviewed by Marcus Stanlec
WTFMusic.org
March 11, 2010
----
"How I Want to Die has a distinct tendency to become strange, and some of the time that strangeness works wonders. The songs work more often than not, are strange more often than not and aren't about to be mistaken for anything else any time soon."
Reviewed by Paul de Bruijn
www.Rambles.net
April 25, 2009
---
"On first listening, there’s an operatic feel to all the songs; big emotions expressed through souls in turmoil.I feel as though I’m listening to cuts describing certain scenes in an opera that could be tied together if I could just get hold of the script. The subject matter is death, disillusion, dark alleys of the heart, despair, decay. Don’t have a gun by your side when you’re listening to this CD."
Reviewed by Jeremiah Sutherland
Bullfrog Music
http://www.bullfrogmusic.com
July 17, 2008
---
"The music, with its talented keyboard playing, makes a good background to Catman’s acquired-taste Serge Gainsbourg style vocals."
Reviewed by Gary Levinson
Indie Music Review
http://www.indiemusicreview.net
May 24, 2008
---
"Think Chris Rea and Nick Cave on holiday with Leonard Cohen watching a Tarantino movie."
Reviewed by Dave Chislett
Matchbox Radio 24
http://www.matchboxrecordings.co.uk/artists/sitb2
December 23, 2007
---
"The raw poetry, the depth of feeling and caring, the times when he is really lucid and the sheer good music in many cuts are such that Cohen is worth checking out."
Reviewed by Jay Levin
Real Talk LA
http://www.realtalkla.com/
December 21, 2007
---
"The nursing shortage in America has been memorialized in song and video by an unlikely hero named Catman Cohen whose body of work has struck a raw nerve in this country."
Mary Ruff-King, Author
http://ezinearticles.com/?expert_bio=Mary_Ruff-King
September 17, 2007
---
"We need more brave musicians and artists like Catman Cohen. It is interesting, but sad, to see how concerned citizens like Cohen and others get censored and excluded by the Illuminati puppets, and other ignorant, 'useful idiots,' to quote the Illuminati themselves."
__Wes Penre, Publisher
Illuminati News
http://www.illuminati-news.com
August 8, 2007
---
"It's an interesting mixture: ethereal female vocals over a vaguely new age sound layer, covered with gritty street lyrics and a gravelly voice back-up...
One wonders if a face-to-face meeting with 'Catman' would be anything other than seriously weird."
Carl F Gauze
INK19
http://www.ink19.com/
February 22, 2007
--------------
"Catman Cohen's series of music CD's are becoming the talk of the town."
Kat Kramer
Entertainment Today
http://www.entertainmenttodayonline.com
April 7, 2006
---
"Definitely different are the two words that best describe Catman Cohen's music."
Reviewed by Joeri De Ren (Antwerp, Belgium)
http://www.dogmatik.be
December 29, 2005
---
"Catman Cohen is a force of nature... How I Want To Die is one of the most emotionally powerful works I have come across in a long time."
Reviewed by JJ Biener
www.musesmuse.com
November 22, 2005
---
"Catman is deep and mysterious and he writes from his heart. I like his composition and unpredictability at times. I think he has a dark way of looking at a bright situation."
Reviewed by Ian Cole/ Shauntelle Hamlett
UNSIGNED Music Magazine
September 3, 2005
---
"HOW I WANT TO DIE is dark and dramatic yet hopeful in its intent to inspire positive changes in a world gone bad."
Reviewed by Laura Turner Lynch
www.kweevak.com
July 4, 2005
---
"HOW I WANT TO DIE would be perfect for a musical.... because the songs almost seem to be like scenes from something greater than an album....
The strange, bizarre, and twisted cover of Kylie Minogue's CAN'T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD (is) so over the top and gravelly that it's amazing. It simply has to be heard to be believed...Interesting to say the least."
Reviewed by Paul Zimmerman
First Coast News, ABC 25, NBC 12 (Jacksonville, Florida)
June 23, 2005
---
"(Catman) is obviously mad as a march hare, a hatter and a box of Frogs all holed up together in a looney ward.... there's occasional sparks of peculiar brilliance."
Reviewed by Chris Prewett
www.subba-cultcha.com
June 13, 2005
---
"I found myself wanting to listen to the words a number of times for
their depth and realism."
Terry Evanshen, "The Man Who Lost Himself"
www.terryevanshen.com
June 10, 2005
---
"In PRAYER FOR AMERICA, I wholeheartedly endorse your message, particularly the rejection of materialism, what really matters, and the plea for return to sanity in our nation's values.... If the public can only hear one of your songs from this album, let it be PRAYER FOR AMERICA."
Mary Lightfine, Founder and President
Volunteers Without Boundaries
www.volunteerswithoutboundaries.com
May 23, 2005
---
"HOW I WANT TO DIE constitutes the darkest 75 minutes most people will experience in their entire lives. It is nothing less than a poignant reflection of America in decline, the final musical and lyrical gasps of a collapsing Empire...and it is brilliant...Take a close listen to Catman's remake of the Kylie Minogue party hit, CAN'T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD. Catman's suicide version will be requested repeatedly on radio stations across the world by those shell-shocked fans of the song who simply cannot believe what he did to it."
Reviewed by Marc Seltzer
www.LAsplash.com
April 29, 2005
---
"Having listened to your CD, I certainly have similar sentiments that you express. Although I'm not a person who listens to music with words on it, I am not sure I feel qualified to comment. But I feel great peril...I feel Bush is worse than Hitler. I feel we live in a society numb from television without the directed intelligence or compassion to lead a Love Revolution we need...and I appreciate anybody trying to do something about that."
Patch Adams, Social Activist
www.patchadams.org
April 27, 2005
---
"The disc is innovative, there is no denying it - what is really exciting during HOW I WANT TO DIE is Cohen's burning desire to work through any constrictions (working in a pop and rock domain) and make vital, thriving music in genres that were previously thought tapped out...There are moments during HOW I WANT TO DIE that are amongst the most impressive snippets of music heard this year."
James McQuiston, Editor
www.neufutur.com
April 5, 2005
---
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