Katastro honor their late lead singer Andy Chaves within the music video for “Good Life” (ft. Jared Watson & Duddy B of Soiled Heads), a heartfelt anthem of celebration and remembrance reminding us to stay within the second and soak in life’s highs as they’re taking place.

“Good Time” – Katastro ft. Jared Watson & Duddy B of Soiled Heads

And when you wanna stay the great life, effectively that is what it appears like…

An anthem that began off as a celebration of life has since develop into a commemoration of it.

Pleasure and grief collide in “Good Time,” Katastro’s first single since lead singer Andy Chaves misplaced his life in a tragic automotive accident in Might 2022. On the time, Katastro had been trying ahead to a months-long summer time tour with Ambiance and Iration, and had simply wrapped up an intense week of studio time along with Soiled Heads, writing and recording concepts for his or her subsequent album. Out of these classes got here a demo of Chaves singing a feel-good melody with the lyrics, “And when you wanna stay the great life, effectively that is what it appears like… And when you wanna have a superb time, effectively that is what it appears like.“

These phrases now have an added weight to them, their sentiment amplified by Chaves’ premature passing. Accomplished by Katastro’s remaining band members along with Soiled Heads’ Jared Watson and Duddy B, “Good Time” now serves as a heartfelt, uplifting, and superbly bittersweet reminder to stay within the second and cherish life’s good occasions as you’re dwelling them.

It’s a poignant and highly effective tribute to Andy Chaves, who for fifteen years fronted Katastro as he and his finest friends-turned-bandmates introduced their fascinating mixture of rock, funk, hip-hop, and blues to audiences world wide.

And when you wanna stay the great life
Effectively that is what it appears like (mmmm mmm)
And when you wanna have a superb time
Effectively that is what it appears like

Effectively me and also you out late till the dawn
Good Buddies, Good Occasions, We feeling alright
And we received nothing to lose
We livin’ life to the fullest, set management trip the cruise
We out right here dwelling each second like a reminiscence
Trigger i ain’t tryin to look again and remorse something
Trigger time won’t ever stand nonetheless
So I nonetheless stand by those who keep actual

Atwood Journal is proud to be premiering the music video for Katastro’s “Good Time,” that includes studio footage from the band’s remaining classes interwoven with photographs from their final stay present, on April 30, 2022, on the legendary Purple Rocks Amphitheatre. Working off Chaves’ preliminary demo recording, Katastro’s guitarist Tanner Riccio, drummer Andrew Stravers, and bassist Ryan Weddle collaborated with Soiled Heads’ frontman Jared Watson and vocalist/guitarist Duddy B to create the closest factor they might get to a becoming sendoff: A track that speaks to friendship, particular moments spent collectively, and dwelling life to the fullest:

And that i received lovin all day
So when you want some emotions you’ll find it my approach
It’s within the moments we make
So when you want some lovin you’ll find it my approach

And when you wanna stay the great life
Effectively that is what it appears like (mmmm mmm)
And when you wanna have a superb time
Effectively that is what it appears like

“Good Life” is the lead single off what is going to develop into Katastro’s tenth and remaining studio album, set to launch subsequent yr and that includes collaborations with members of Soiled Heads, Iration, The Maine, Rome Ramirez of Chic with Rome, and others.

“This track holds an enormous place in our band’s catalog, being one of many remaining recordings of Andy ever taken,” Katastro’s Ryan Weddle tells Atwood Journal. “This has been the toughest challenge we’ve ever labored on and we’ve taken as a lot time as we felt we would have liked to get it to a spot the place we really feel it could actually stand by itself as an amazing Katastro monitor, whatever the story behind it.”

“I actually hope folks that watch this video can see the story behind it,” he provides. “We compiled a few of our favourite reminiscences as a band from each earlier than and after dropping Andy. Engaged on this track was a large a part of our therapeutic course of and it made me understand that the great occasions could be the toughest to look again on. Seeing every part put collectively like this makes me admire how fortunate I’m to be part of one thing so particular and we’re very blissful to have the ability to lastly share it with everybody.”

The story of “Good Life” begins with Katastro’s remaining classes collectively, in Might of final yr.

“In Might 2022 we arrange a writing session in California with the fellows in Soiled Heads,” Weddle explains. “We had simply received again from enjoying a present at Purple Rocks with Chic w/ Rome and Gza, and had just a few weeks of time earlier than we headed out on a nationwide tour with our pals Iration and Ambiance. We booked an Airbnb for a few week in Costa Mesa and instantly went to Maple Sound Studios, a spot beneficial by Soiled Heads. Our most important objective was to get a tough begin on our new album, so each day we simply threw round a bunch of concepts and constructed on them piece by piece. ‘Good Time’ was one of many first tracks we truly began that week. Duddy B of Soiled Heads began the primary acoustic guitar riff and all of us labored on getting the refrain vocal melody collectively. Our singer Andy Chaves tracked a tough “scratch” recording of the refrain as a placeholder and we moved on to begin the following monitor not figuring out that just a few days afterward our final evening there our singer Andy could be killed in a automotive accident.”

“Soiled Heads had been a number of the first individuals we known as after we received the information that Andy handed, and Jared Watson (of Soiled Heads) instantly informed us that something we would have liked they’d our again and that they wished to assist end the songs we began with them. We took just a few months to undergo our grieving course of and kinda reevaluate every part occurring in our lives earlier than reserving one other studio session in Globe, Arizona, a small mining city about an hour and half from Phoenix. We went there to work with our pal and longtime collaborator Matt Keller to open up all of the classes and see if we had something that was usable.”

“This turned out to be extremely tough each emotionally, and in realizing the problem of piecing the tracks collectively and writing new music to the vocals we had left. Quick ahead a pair months from then, we return to the identical studio in California that we began the classes in, this time joined by Soiled Heads producer and hit songwriter Ryan OG. Each Duddy and Jared wrote their components for ‘Good Time,’ which introduced out an entire new perspective to the track. It was very emotional to be in the identical spot we had been at after we misplaced Andy however, it additionally felt like we had been instantly engaged on one thing a lot greater than we had initially set out for.”

I’m on that driftwood move
I don’t fear the place i am going
I don’t hurry take it sluggish
I received a pocket knife, a bag of bones
A lighter and a OZ
I don’t play no methods
Yeah i attempt to stay it low key

You’re a fats squirrel on a skinny department buddy
You coming to a breaking level
The place life is gettin muddy
Double sided coin
Once you’re down ain’t it humorous
On the darkish aspect of the moon
However the different half is sunny

Initially I believe it was simply presupposed to be a cheerful up-beat occasion monitor however with the brand new perspective of loss and grief it has personally moved extra right into a track about realizing the great occasions as they’re taking place and appreciating the particular moments earlier than they cross.

And that i received lovin all day
So when you want some emotions you’ll find it my approach
It’s within the moments we make
So when you want some lovin you’ll find it my approach

And when you wanna stay the great life
Effectively that is what it appears like (mmmm mmm)
And when you wanna have a superb time
Effectively that is what it appears like

A reggae-rock reverie, “Good Time” encourages its viewers to be current and in-the-moment for all times’s highs as they’re taking place to us. It’s a “Glory Days”-style track with a constructive and extra hopeful spin – buying and selling melancholy and nostalgia out for appreciation and consciousness. The track ends with Katastro’s surviving band members all singing a young outro collectively, after a slight tweak to the refrain lyric: Following “that is what it appears like,” Watson provides, “It was a superb life.”

“The day after [Andy’s] loss of life, I keep in mind sitting within the grass listening to that demo, attempting to course of it,” Katastro drummer Andrew Stravers shares. “5 months later, Duddy and Jared [Watson] had been again serving to us end it with that lyric. That’s once I needed to go away the room.”

And when you wanna stay the great life
Effectively that is what it appears like (mmmm mmm)
And when you wanna have a superb time
Effectively that is what it appears like

Yeah that is what it appears like (oooh)
Yeah that is what it appears like (oooh)
It was a superb life

The track concludes with everyone singing, “I want that we may keep proper right here eternally… I want that we may keep proper right here collectively…” It’s a cathartic, painfully bittersweet, and heartbreakingly lovely finale – one which aches from the within out because the band honor the lifetime of their late lead singer.

Watch Katastro’s “Good Time” music video solely on Atwood Journal, and keep tuned for extra to come back as Weddle, Stravers, and Riccio put together to launch their tenth and remaining studio album, accomplished with the assistance and collaboration of pals all through the music business.

However greater than something, take the message of this track and video to coronary heart and do all you possibly can to soak in life’s good occasions as they’re taking place. Whether or not you’re goofing round in a comfort retailer snack aisle, laughing and cracking jokes over drinks, or simply hanging out on a pal’s sofa, it’s these candy little fleeting moments, greater than the rest, that we keep in mind and carry with us for the remainder of our lives.

I want that we may keep proper right here eternally
I want that we may keep proper right here collectively
I want that we may keep proper right here eternally
I want that we may keep proper right here collectively

It was a superb life

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