Dear Family & Friends,
This announcement is long enough, so I won't inundate you with yet another flowery description. I'm just gonna say this, The first time I ever heard Pill Wonder was in Ari's Bedroom. Me, Archibald, Mimoun and Brody were all crowded in there, perched on his bed, listening to the tracks that would eventually go on to become the Summer Showcase. When "Wishing Whale" came on, I remember my face wrinkling up into a confused glee then spinning round to see Brody smiling like a jester, nodding his head as if to say "YEA BUDDY!" From that moment on I knew I was in some pretty special company... I'm fantastically excited to be presenting this album to you now.
Pill Wonder, Jungle/Surf (UPLP002)
Music Video for "Wishing Whale" by Martin Anderson (http://www.vimeo.com/9367608)
Big Beautiful Cover Art - (http://www.zshare.net/info.
Release Date: Vinyl and iTunes Feb. 28th
Price: $14.00
Available at www.underwaterpeoples.com
Track List-
A1: Fogg Eater
A2: What We Know
A3: Being Bored
A4: Wishing Whale
B1: Wasted By The Screen
B2: Gone To The Market
B3: Family Vacation
B4: When I Look Back
The Underwater Peoples Recording Company is proud to present Pill Wonder's first LP, the fuzzy, untamed pop miracle, Jungle/Surf.
Like the lush tropics, Jungle/Surf lulls a weary journeymen with soft koos and delicate trickles. Visions of tribal maidens beneath slow motion waterfalls cloud the hiker as he plummets himself into the hot and wet greenery. Plunging ever deeper, those who dare fall in love with the jungle's hallucinogenic qualities soon find growling jaguars brushing up against their calves and trumpeting elephants announcing their arrivals. The monkeys swing amongst crooked trees and rusty radio towers, their chirps and howls seem to harmonize with the frequencies murmuring through the sky.
As night falls, the jungle disco's euphoric energy becomes almost frightening. The seasoned travelers heart beats like that of a hummingbird and his eyes become wide like those of flies. Despite miles of hiking, the man feels as light as feather, "How can this be?" he declares. "What is this place?!" And as if the Jungle heard his queries, at that very moment our adventurer hears the faint sounds of distant drumming. Now he is faced with a choice, go forth into the beautiful dark density or retreat back to base camp, content with already enough experience to write a hundred memoirs.
Underwater Peoples Records invites you to draw your machete, lace tight your boots and venture with us into the deep, unknown world of Pill Wonder. Like no other terrain ever explored, Jungle/Surf is diverse, exotic and utterly undefinable. While I can not promise your past hiking experience will help you navigate this lush and mystical world, I can assure all who enter with an open heart and mind, will leave forever changed.
- Sawyer Carter Jacobs
Production Notes:
Pill Wonder's Jungle/Surf was recorded by William Murder/Murdoch in a two year span at the house where he has spent all 22 years of his life, just north of the U District in Seattle, WA - under the roof where the rain hits hard all year 'round, Will recorded during lonely afternoons, often while his mother was at work at the University of Washington Math Library.
Using an old DELL desktop computer in his bedroom, with the illegally downloaded Adobe Audition recording software, Will employed boxes of macaroni 'n cheese, a little kid's drum set purchased at a garage sale, and often beat boxing for his rhythm tracks. Other than that, a 3rd grader's recorder, an electric guitar of the Fender variety, a guitar amp of the Fender variety, some sort of cheap keyboard and one Shure SM 57 microphone made up the rest of his recording equipment.
I'm proud of what he has employed and been able to create. There was always a ray of sunshine in our post-Kurt town just a half a mile away from me, and for that I thank you Will.
- Dana Jewell
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