It sounds like the name of a government agency or some type of new technology buzzword. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone is the name of the solo music project of Owen Ashworth. Here’s an excerpt from Wikipedia:

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone is the musical solo-project of musician Owen Ashworth (born 1977) of Redwood City, California. He started CFTPA after he dropped out of film-school in 1997. He has toured with other similar acclaimed indie artists like The Donkeys, The Papercuts, Cass McCombs, Kill Me Tomorrow, P:ano, The Dead Science, David Bazan, The Rapture, and Xiu Xiu.

The musical style is characterized by the use of electronically produced beats, cheap keyboards, and slow, frank lyrics. On Etiquette, Ashworth widened his musical horizon and added more analog instruments and an overall more organic sound.

The way I describe it is if Postal Service had one guy with a Casio keyboard (CFTPA came first though). Well 1 month and 3 separate looks at this post and I think it’s ready to go. MadRock Recidvist’s heart may explode now that I’ve posted. Hopefully not though. Unlike Concert Panther, I’ll post links to available iTunage along with Amazon. He admitted to me the other day he couldn’t tell the difference between a 128K mp3 and one of a higher bitrate.

Here are some interesting videos I found on YouTube recorded on the streets. The phone booth recording was pretty impressive. Some of the tracks on his first album (Answering Machine Music: A Brief Album in Twelve Parts) was actually recorded by calling an answering machine.