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digital single * 2008 A late night mood tsunami.
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| Starlight
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| Digital single: "Jeremy
Brett" digital single * 2008 An ode to the late
actor Jeremy Brett who is best know for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes in the British BBC /
Granada series.
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| Jeremy
Brett
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| | "7" Full
Length Album: * 2008
A tour de force filled with
love, swagger, raw honesty and moxie. After a 10 year exploration of expansive orchestration and electronica, PDP trimmed
it all down and turned up the amplifiers. "7" somehow sounds like a brother / sister record to PDP's '95
release "Pomegranate". This is a rock record, Filled with sex, romance, mischievousness, glitter & psychedelic soul. Arguably their best record to date. An instant classic in
the poi catalogue.
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1- PERFECT MUSIC
2- STICKY
3-
LEMMON DROP MAN
4- HEAVEN ONLY KNOWS
5- BABY TOGETHER
6-
BUTTERFLIES
7- FROM THIS MOMENT ON
8- PALM LEAF EFFIGY
9- RUSTED WEATHER
10- IN COMES THE NIGHT
11- OUTTA YER HEAD
12- ROCK CANDY
13
-SUPER TARANA
14- SPACE DUST
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| THE BEST OF THE AUSTIN
YEARS Full Length Album: * 2005
A Sony music compilation of
the first 3 PDP albums, spanning 1988 to 1992.
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pulling touch
everybody's trying (single edit)
i've got my
body
hardest thing
collarbone
watermelon song
Love Vigilantes
thanksgiving
get me on
jack ass ginger
be the one
Living with the dreaming
body
I Had To Tell You
bury me deep
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| AUDIO VISIVO
DVD /CD: * 2004
(dvd
and 3 song e.p. packaged together)
Features
videos of "Simple Song" & "Natural thing" + Marco Ferrari's documentary on the making of "In
seed comes fruit". Package also includes a c.d. of the up-dated 'soul
kitchen' mix of "Simple Song", a cover of
New Order's "Bizarre Love Triangle" and
a juicy re-mix of "Natural
thing"
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DVD:
"Simple Song" Video
"Natural
Thing" Video
Concert footage,
Interviews,
and the making of
"In
seed comes fruit"
Compaion CD:
"Simple Song"
"Bizarre
love triangle
"Natural Thing"
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| IN SEED COMES FRUIT Full
Length Album: * 2003
One of
the most elegant albums of the poi catalogue, and some would argue, one of their most un-characteristic. This is the most
collaborative of all the PDP records with many members sharing in the writing of lyrics as well as the music. Chief song writer
Frank Orrall seems more interested in sound than lyrics during this period and so cozies up to co-producer Martin Stebbing's
chair and enjoys the ride in more of a sonic conductors role. Susan Voelz and Paul Mertens stretch their
orchestral wings on this record and give this record a unique intimate - yet expansive sound. Singers
Charlette Wortham, Carla Prather, Kornell Hargrove and Susan Voelz take the lyrical reigns and the result
is broad in palate, but richly cohesive.
This is a record for musicians,
painters, long distance drives and lovers.
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1. Had I Known
2. You Move Me
3. A Love Rains
down
4. 10-28
5. Daytrippin
6. Hangover
7. Keep The Faith
8. True
9. So Real
10. Hotel Seze
11. Simple Song
12. In Seeds Come Fruit
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| | SWEEPING UP THE CUTTING ROOM FLOOR Full Length Album:
*2001
A collection of studio
out takes from 1987 to 94 (rarities & b-sides). In cludes the beautifully
haunting "cotton and wood pulp paste" featuring Abra Moore on vocals
and piano.
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1. Over the Top
2. Money Is Tight
3. Think N Thin
4. Cotton and Wood
Pulp Paste
5. Absolute Perfection
6. To Be in Love
7. Original
Chain
8. Can I Change My Mind
9. Fiddle and A Bow
10. Black Hole
11.
Been Down So Long
12. Willem Dafoe
13. Better Than This
14. Wine Song
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| | SOUL SONIC ORCHESTRA Full
Length Album: * 2000
The neo Disco soul of poi dog pondering
shines here live at the turning of the millennium.
This record captures PDP in the midst of exploring how to combine
the 70's Philly soul disco with House and rock.
With a controversial new line up and focus on soul, disco jazz
and house music, PDP set out to explore that field planted in the 70's by The Sound of Philadelphia (or TSOP), Big band
live disco with strings and horns, Jazz keys, bass, congas and drums. Striving to become the organic link between that and
the electronic present.
Recorded live on NYE at the dawn of 2000, This record captures the band feeling flush with
creative energy and determined to follow it's heart in-spite of a vocal portion of it's fan-base resistant to let
the band morph as it always seems to need to do.
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Rise Up and Walk
That's the Way Love Is
Ta Bouche Est Tabou
Spend My Life
Natural
Thing
Ain't No Stopping Us Now
Diva
Baby I'm Scared of You
(If U
Got Real Love 4 Me)
JAG
Plate.tec.tonic
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| THAT'S THE WAY
LOVE IS Re-Mix e.p.: * 1999
Re-Mixes of the Ten City classic "That's the way
love is" as well as 2 tuff re-mixes of Poi dog pondering's "Complicated".
(check out Lego's "side tracked dub").
Featuring remixes
by Maurice Josusah, Mike Dunn, Lego, Jesse De
La Pena and Bunky.
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That's the Way Love Is:
Poi dog
Pondering
- single edit mix
Ruckus Vocal Mix
- Maurice Joshua
Deep Soul Vocal Mix
- Mike Dunn
Blue Groove House Mix
-Jesse De LaPeña
Bunky's Way Mix
- Tim “Bunky”
Titsworth
Ruckus Instrumental
- Maurice Joshua
Deep Soul Dubb
- Mike Dunn
Sound Clash Mix
-
Jesse De LaPeña
Complicated:
Boom Boom Room Vocal Mix
- Légo
Side tracked Dub
- Légo
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| | NATURAL THING
Full Length Album:
* 1999
"Natural Thing" is the sound of PDP
in the summer light fire of re-invention.
Again.
The lyrics get thrown in the fire, and
the music rises higher.
"At this time in my life I felt like music was so much more expressive than words..."
said Frank Orrall, "And I just wanted to let the music speak." "Rather than traditional song writing structures
like; "verse / chorus / bridge " etc., We just let the musicians be musicians and play. Martin and I followed where
they went and made the song fit their intuitive structure.... The instrumentalist was the conductor, and the songs just wrapped
around that cosmic shape."
"Also at this time in my life lyrics were not coming to me and so I just
felt like lyrics should be short and to the point. Set the stage and let the music talk to the listener in the sound of the
soul. The arc of emotion in "Octavio / Beautiful to meet you", Spend my life", "Diva" and "Tracery
/ Tana dery Na" literally pull at my heart" say's Frank Orrall.
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1. Octavio/Beautiful to Meet You
2. Ta Bouche Est Tabou
(french mix)
3. Natural Thing
4. Come Together
5. Diva (Live at House
of sound)
6. Berry
7. That's the Way Love Is
8.
Spend My Life (Moorea mix)
9. Hard Sometimes
10. Jealous
11. Tracery/Tana Dery Na (waterlily mix)
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| LIQUID WHITE LIGHT
Full Length Double Album:
* 1997
The quintessential
live PDP record to date.
This captures the early Chicago
line up in it's prime. Knowing it was the band's first live record, and at the decade mark of the band's existence
- they chose to lay the concert out like a sonic retrospective; Starting with "Angelika Suspended" 's early
poi acoustic sound and ending the night with the bands emerging interest in electronic textures and dance / rock music.
Recorded over 4 nights at the Vic Theater,
Expertly mixed by PDP's #1 trusted 'man at the controls' Martin Stebbing and assisted by Max Crawford's
dedicated attention to detail and choice of passion over performance...
This record captures the late '90's
poi to perfection.
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disc one:
Angelika Suspended
Postcard from a Dream
Living with the Dreaming Body Catacombs
Sugarbush Cushman
Lay My Love
Everybody's
Trying
Tall
Searching for the Fertile Fields
Pulling Touch
Sandra at the Beach
disc two:
Diamonds
and Buttermilk
Ecstasy
I've Got My Body
Shu Zulu Za
God's Gallipoli
Ta Bouche est Tabou
Collarbone
Big Constellation
The Chain
Jackass Ginger
Platetectonic
Complicated
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| ELECTRIQUE PLUMMAGRAM Re-Mix Album: * 1996
In the mid 90's PDP were enjoying
fresh inspiration from the vibrant Chicago underground electronic dance movement, and so Fresh off of releasing "Pomegranate",
PDP went back into the studio with producers Frank Orrall and Martin Stebbing and engineer Scott Ramsayer to make this RE-MIX
album. They locked themselves into the studio and experimented with vintage synthesizers and drum machines to make club ready
versions of 4 previously released PDP songs. This session yielded 3 new cuts; "Zap Disco" (inspired by Chicago's
south side 'Juke' and ' booty house' sound), "Platetectonic" a quasi rock / electronic house Frankenstein,
and the hidden JEM of the whole record; "Diva (bliss mix)" closes out the record.
This record freaked out
some fans of the band who thought the band "went disco" - but it also made new fans, and is a testimony to PDPs
musical elasticity.
"Diva" is singularly beautiful in it's organic electronic-ness - fully electronic
- but somehow it sounds like it could fit right along side PDP's most acoustic tender songs. Frank Orrall counts
"Diva" and "Falling" as two of his favorite PDP recordings - they are like the north and south pole of
the poi catalogue - a world apart from each-other, but very much in the same glove of poi's tender melancholic joy.
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1. Platetectonic
2. God's Gallipoli
(Arqueen Remix)
3. Zap Disco
(House-O-Matic
Mix)
4. Complicated
(Berlin Remix)
5. Hard Sometimes
(M-Theory Remix)
6. Diamonds
and Buttermilk
(Matt Warren Remix)
7. Diva (Bliss Mix)
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| POMEGRANATE Full Length Album:
* 1995
Made under the pressure of tending to a lover ( and band member ) struggling with cancer,
this record emerged a diamond. It's a determined deep breath, and acceptance of life and it's ways and choosing to
live and love it.
It's sex and dreams and dirt and earth. A masterpiece.
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1. Pomegranate
2. Catacombs
3. Complicated
4. Chain
5.
Big Constellation
6. Sandra at the Beach
7. Diamonds and Buttermilk
8. Shu Zulu Za
9.
God's Gallipoli
10. Shake of Big Hands
11. Al le Luia
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| PALM FABRIC ORCHESTRA
Full Length Album:
* 1994
A sublime all instrumental record. Pure natural music.
Featuring Frank Orrall, Ellen fullman, Kit Ebersbach, Mark Willams, Susan Voelz, Max Crawford, Paul Mertens and other Members
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1. Time And Gravity
2. Thawing Spring
3. Angelika
Suspended
4. Window Down, Still Far From The State Line
5. Wood Box And Block Of
Ice
6. The Garden
7. Rounding The Trees By The Forest Edge
8. Coda: Lover's Reprise
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| VOLO VOLO Full
Length Album:
* 1992
This began as an instrumental record, When our label contact heard
what we were making he flew right down to Austin
and said, point blank:
"Columbia wants a lyric record or else
they're gonna drop the band."
In-sensed by this form of control PDP decided
rather than to quit or quibble, to take their cue from Madona; "Gain power, then do what you want with it", so they
wrote a stone solid pop lyric record, put boxing gloves on for the cover photo and let Columbia know they were in the ring.
"In retrospect, I'm glad Columbia pushed us - cause it ended up producing 2 good records - the one we meant to make
(Palm Fabric Orchestra) and Volo Volo.... "
That's a good story - and true... but an equally important
truth is; when the band was on tour in England in 89 and they heard the Happy Mondays, that kinda started a revolution in
the poi sound. And with Palm Fabric in the bag - they were happy to move on and explore again. You can start to hear it here.
The band got hate mail from fans who feared they sold out when volo volo hit.
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1. Lackluster
2. Collarbone
3. Get Me O
4. The Hardest Thing
5. Ta Bouche Est Tabou
6. I've Got My Body
7. Jack Ass
Ginger
8. Be The One
9. Tall
10. Building
11. Te Manu Pukarua
12. Blood And Thunder
13. Entrance
14. Endtrance
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FRUITLESS EP:
* 1990 An eclectic mix of covers and live tracks, wrapped around a 'slightly' remixed version
of "Fruitless". the stand out track here is "I had to tell you" (a Rocky Erikson cover) sung by bassist
Bruce Hughes. You can hear the last shades of the street busking days here, before the shift that Volo Volo would bring to
the band.
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Fruitless (remix)
I Had To Tell You
Love
Vigilantes
Going Up The Country
Wood Guitar/Falling (live)
Thanksgiving
(live)
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| | WISHING LIKE A
MOUNTAIN, THINKING LIKE THE SEA
Full Length Album: * 1990
The whimsical apex of early PDP. Before the Sony / Columbia
machine and cynical press cavity toothed mutterings scared them into self awareness... (which is not as bad as it seems...
they survived just fine.) This is the sound of PDP just happy to be there in the world playing music and unaware that it might
matter to anyone - and bliss-full to the fact that the lions in wait of "thou shall not from 'indie to major label'
trade" were ready to pounce.
Little had anyone known that they had (in their brashness), beaten the best contract
out of Columbia, better than any indy contract - filled with creative control.... (including clauses for a kid's
record, and an instrumental record... ) and kept their own publishing - all because they could care less and fought
them for it. But none of this has anything to do with the sound and the songs here.
This is pre-indy back lash poi
being it's natural heart on the sleeve self.
Angered letters from fundamentalist religious zealots came in
addressing the songs: "Bury me deep" and "Praise the lord". PDP took it as a good sign. |
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1. Bury Me Deep
2. Watermelon Song
3. U-Li-La-Lu
4. Everybody's
Trying
5. Big Beautiful Spoon
6. The Ancient Egyptians
7. Spending
The Day In The Shirt You Wore
8. Thankgiving
9. Praise The Lord
10.
The Me That Wa Your Son
11. Fruitless
12. Big Walk
13.
Sugarbush Cushman
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| | POI DOG PONDERING Full Length Album: * 1988
Poi dog Pondering's debut CD. Originally
released as 2 e.p.s on Texas Hotel records.
This record
captures the whimsical elegance of the the bands early acoustic rock sound, fresh off the street from their beginnings as
a street playing "busking" band. This album sounds as fresh today as the day it was recorded thanks to Mike Stewart's
warm analogue recording. It's time-less and heart-felt. Earnest and honest.
Violins, accordions, mandolins, mando
cellos, bass, oboe, drums, electric guitars, penny whistles, harps and trumpets are a few of the instruments that give this
recording it's unique texture. Threaded together with prose that knows that life is short, and sometimes painful, and
should be lived with both hands and a healthy thirst. Zorba the Greek would like this record.
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1. Living With The Dreaming Body
2. Fall Upon Me
3. Postcard From A
Dream (Toast And Jelly)
4. Pulling Touch
5. Sound Of Water
6.
Fact Of Life
7. Circle Around The Sun
8. Aloha Honolulu
9. Wood Guitar
10. Falling
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