Joel Kachel's music career is staying on its upward trajectory.
The Woodbury native is hoping a new single called "Away Away" and a music video — released at a party at the Fine Line Music Cafe in Minneapolis last week — will help take him to the next level.
"It's all about timing. This is a very summery song, very upbeat," he said. "It just reeks of summer."
The video reflects that, filmed on Newport and Laguna beaches in Southern California.
While the song and video conjure images of the laid-back pleasures of fun under the sun, Kachel has been hard-driving in his pursuit of a music career that had humble beginnings in the dining room-turned-music studio of his parents' Woodbury home.
It's a creative journey that's taken him halfway around the world, and with every leg of a new tour completed, he is getting his professional footing on more solid ground.
"Away Away" is his second music video, following 2011's "Sounds of the Crow." "Crow" received multiple awards and won him a number of songwriting competitions, including a Texas Song Writing Cruise Competition and a Student Emmy for the video.
His first CD was "Tennis Shoes and Diamond Rings." It was a song a couple of years in the making, he said, co-written with Australian songwriters Zelda and Pal Sheldon, sometimes collaborating long-distance by Skype. He met the couple while touring in Nashville.
