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Audio Love Letter
7 song EP / February 4, 2011
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Full Length Album / 2008
After a ten year exploration of expansive orchestration and electronica, PdP trimmed it all down and turned up the amplifiers.
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STARLIGHT
digital single / 2008
A late night mood tsunami.
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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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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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AUDIO VISIVO
DVD & CD / 2004
Features videos of "Simple Song" and "Natural thing" plus Marco Ferrari’s documentary on the making of "In Seed Comes Fruit".
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IN SEED COMES FRUIT
Full Length Album / 2003
Susan Voelz and Paul Mertens stretch their orchestral wings on this record and give it a unique intimate yet expansive sound - a record for musicians, painters, long distance drives and lovers.
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SWEEPING UP THE CUTTING ROOM FLOOR
Full Length Album / 2001
A collection of studio out takes from 1987 to 1994 (rarities & b-sides).
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SOUL SONIC ORCHESTRA
Full Length Album / 2000
The neo Disco soul of Poi dog Pondering shines here, recorded live on New Year’s Eve at the turning of the millennium.
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THAT’S THE WAY LOVE IS
Re-Mix EP / 1999
Re-Mixes of the Ten City classic "That’s the Way Love Is" as well as two tuff re-mixes of Poi dog Pondering’s "Complicated".
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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 - the lyrics get thrown in the fire, and the music rises higher.
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LIQUID WHITE LIGHT
Full Length Double Album / 1997
Recorded over four nights at the Vic Theater, this captures the early Chicago line up in its prime.
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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 although this record freaked out some fans who thought the band "went disco", it also made new fans, and is a testimony to PdP's musical elasticity.
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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 and has become a masterpiece.
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PALM FABRIC ORCHESTRA
Full Length Album / 1994
A sublime all instrumental record.
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VOLO VOLO
Full Length Album / 1992
When our label contact heard that we were making an instrumental record, he flew right down to Austin and said,
"Columbia wants a lyric record or else they're gonna drop the band” so, taking a cue from Madona ("Gain power, then do what you want with it"), we wrote a stone solid pop lyric record, and put boxing gloves on for the cover photo.
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FRUITLESS
EP / 1990
An eclectic mix of covers and live tracks; the last shades of the street busking days, before the shift that Volo Volo would bring to the band.
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WISHING LIKE A MOUNTAIN, THINKING LIKE THE SEA
Full Length Album / 1990
The whimsical apex of early PDP.
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POI DOG PONDERING
Full Length Album / 1989
Poi dog Pondering’s debut CD, originally released as two EP's on Texas Hotel Records, captures the whimsical elegance of the early acoustic 'busking' band, threaded with lyrics that know life is short, sometimes painful, and should be lived with both hands and a healthy thirst.
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