DISCOGRAPHY

Digital single: "Starlight" digital single   * 2008

A late night mood tsunami.

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.

Jeremy Brett

"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.

 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

THE BEST OF THE AUSTIN YEARS   Full Length Album:    * 2005
A Sony music compilation of the first 3 PDP albums, spanning 1988 to 1992.

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

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"

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"

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.

 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

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.

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

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.

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

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. 

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

Boom Boom Room Vocal Mix
- Légo
Side tracked Dub
- Légo

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.

 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)

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.

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

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.

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)

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.

 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

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 of PDP.

 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

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.

 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

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. 

Fruitless (remix)
I Had To Tell You
Love Vigilantes
Going Up The Country
Wood Guitar/Falling (live)
Thanksgiving (live)

 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

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.

 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