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Postdata is the solo project of Paul Murphy of Wintersleep.
Info from his website:
These are my grandparents. They passed away two years ago and left me thirty or forty pieces of songs in a series of dreams, not Coleridge-esque opium dreams though unfortunately, just regular dreams. Kinda sad dreams. This is for them.
This is their daughter, my mother. I call her mom though, not mother. This is for her.
This is my father. Sometimes he feels left out. This is for you too dad.
This is my stomach.
This is me.
I started working on this record a couple of years ago at my parents’ house in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia with my brother Michael.
This is Michael.
We had a little too much time on our hands. Some scotch too. We wanted to make a present for mom. She’d had a tough year. With little preparation (a laptop, no microphones, click tracks, or even tuners come to think of it), we recorded about 12 ideas and we went our separate ways.
Eight months later we found a free weekend in Halifax and tried the same thing, reworking a cluster of songs from the first session and adding four extra songs to the workload. We used the same laptop, but this time we rented actual, real microphones and we used click tracks for a few songs and tuners for the most part. We think. Maybe a little less scotch this time around.
Some of the songs turned out to be fuller and more mature after a second take, better than expected. Other songs maybe didn’t quite hit the mark. But the recording as a whole, the half-finished, early conception somewhat fragmented material, seems to do something quite nice.
Info from his website:
These are my grandparents. They passed away two years ago and left me thirty or forty pieces of songs in a series of dreams, not Coleridge-esque opium dreams though unfortunately, just regular dreams. Kinda sad dreams. This is for them.
This is their daughter, my mother. I call her mom though, not mother. This is for her.
This is my father. Sometimes he feels left out. This is for you too dad.
This is my stomach.
This is me.
I started working on this record a couple of years ago at my parents’ house in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia with my brother Michael.
This is Michael.
We had a little too much time on our hands. Some scotch too. We wanted to make a present for mom. She’d had a tough year. With little preparation (a laptop, no microphones, click tracks, or even tuners come to think of it), we recorded about 12 ideas and we went our separate ways.
Eight months later we found a free weekend in Halifax and tried the same thing, reworking a cluster of songs from the first session and adding four extra songs to the workload. We used the same laptop, but this time we rented actual, real microphones and we used click tracks for a few songs and tuners for the most part. We think. Maybe a little less scotch this time around.
Some of the songs turned out to be fuller and more mature after a second take, better than expected. Other songs maybe didn’t quite hit the mark. But the recording as a whole, the half-finished, early conception somewhat fragmented material, seems to do something quite nice.
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Shmuh wrote:
new favourite.
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arobbbee wrote:
Lovely.
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marakujja wrote:
so tenderly sad
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itscaroline wrote:
best music to listen to when you're driving, or sitting on a bench as everything moves around you. best music anytime of any day, really.
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butwhenidream wrote:
paul murphy, its not possible for you to not break my heart beautifully in any project you do
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Xenophanes2113 wrote:
beautiful.
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WallDoe wrote:
the record just fit when i missed my train and had to wait an hour, drunk in the middle of the night. i cant imagine a better first into-listening.
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groupiee wrote:
:)
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geneticdust09 wrote:
goooooooooooooooood )))
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schleife85 wrote:
hehe... well known voice... ^^paul murphy :-)
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explodingnsound wrote:
The brand new compilation from ExplodingInSound.com "GLORIOUS NOISE" is now available for FREE DOWNLOAD at http://www.explodinginsound.com/2010/03/exploding-in-sound-presents-glorious.html featuring POSTDATA and 19 other great bands.
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davehaslastfm wrote:
I really dig this album. Paranoid Clusters is such a good song.
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jterry27 wrote:
mighty fine!
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knokel wrote:
damn good album
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explodingnsound wrote:
postdata album review at http://www.explodinginsound.com/2010/01/postdata-beautiful-postdata.html
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amigokin wrote:
:-)
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TseluyuXT, kidsandheroes, chri-rousseau and 6 other people added Postdata to their libraries. 15 days ago
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Gochir uploaded front to Postdata’s images. December 2011
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spectrasonic_OT added Postdata to the lineup of Postdata, Black Dogs, High Waters - Wednesday February 1 @ Mavericks at Mavericks. December 2011
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arobbbee tagged Postdata with ‘canadian’. September 2011
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bossmoss wrote about Postdata in a deleted journal. September 2011
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delafou uploaded Picture 2 to Postdata’s images. September 2011
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