Pickup my newest release: Leftovers III! Use promo code ziggurat to take an additional 20% off all purchases on Bandcamp! Code expires at 11:59 PM UTC on Tuesday, 31 December 2024.
Hard to believe that it’s the last day of 2024! Instead of a retrospective, though, I’m looking ahead to a new album, one that I’ll release at some point in 2025.
To celebrate the new year, I’m featuring the first track from that planned album, “Blue Field”:
Pickup my newest release: Leftovers III! Use promo code ziggurat to take an additional 20% off all purchases on Bandcamp! Code expires at 11:59 PM UTC on Tuesday, 31 December 2024.
I’ve just released my tenth album of the year, Leftovers III. It’s really an EP, as it just contains five tracks, but it also contains the longest piece I’ve ever composed, “Hanging Gardens.”
This week I’m featuring the third track from the album, “Rainy Wednesday Morning Waltz“; it’s looking like tomorrow (Christmas!) is going to be pretty rainy, so it seemed apt:
Pickup my newest release: Leftovers III! Use promo code ziggurat to take an additional 20% off all purchases on Bandcamp! Code expires at 11:59 PM UTC on Tuesday, 31 December 2024.
I’ve just released my tenth album of the year, Leftovers III. It’s really an EP, as it just contains five tracks, but it also contains the longest piece I’ve ever composed, “Hanging Gardens.”
This week I’m featuring the sixth and final track from the album, “Funny Phantom“:
Pickup my newest release: Leftovers III! Use promo code ziggurat to take an additional 20% off all purchases on Bandcamp! Code expires at 11:59 PM UTC on Tuesday, 31 December 2024.
I’ve just released my tenth album of the year, Leftovers III. It’s really an EP, as it just contains five tracks, but it also contains the longest piece I’ve ever composed, “Hanging Gardens.”
This week I’d like to feature the fourth track from the album, “Skittlebräu“:
Pickup my newest release: Leftovers III! Use promo code ziggurat to take an additional 20% off all purchases on Bandcamp! Code expires at 11:59 PM UTC on Tuesday, 31 December 2024.
Ah, yes, Bandcamp Friday has returned, which means I hope you will consider pitching in a few bucks to buy my music—or my second book! It’s the most magical Friday of the month!
The first Friday of a bunch of months in 2024 will feature this pro-indie music observance, a day on which Bandcamp waives its usual 15% commission on sales. Today (Friday, 6 December 2024) is the last Bandcamp Friday of the year.
In other words, when you buy my music, almost 100% of it goes to me, instead of almost 85%.
My full discography is 50% off (and the 20% promo code ziggurat can be used for that, too), so it’s only $59.64 to purchase twenty-three releases. That’s just $2.59 per release—and dozens of hours of music, not to mention hundreds of megabytes of musical scores, artwork, liner notes, videos, and other goodies that are packed onto nearly every release.
With the 20% promo code ziggurat the total comes down to $47.71, or $2.07 per release.
Thank you for your support, and rock on!
—TPP
Pickup my newest release: Leftovers III! Use promo code ziggurat to take an additional 20% off all purchases on Bandcamp! Code expires at 11:59 PM UTC on Tuesday, 31 December 2024.
I’ve just released my tenth album of the year, Leftovers III. It’s really an EP, as it just contains five tracks, but it also contains the longest piece I’ve ever composed, “Hanging Gardens.”
This week I’d like to feature the lead track on the album, “Roast Beef Sandwich.”
It was a great Thanksgiving Break for yours portly, with lots of time with family, Dr. Girlfriend, and the dogs. I also released Leftovers III, my tenth musical release of the year.
As such, let’s take a look back at the good times:
Back to work tomorrow.
Happy Sunday!
—TPP
Other Lazy Sunday Installments:
Pickup my newest release: Leftovers III! Use promo code ziggurat to take an additional 20% off all purchases on Bandcamp! Code expires at 11:59 PM UTC on Tuesday, 31 December 2024.
My tenth album of the year is out today, Leftovers III. Technically, it’s just an EP, but whatever—I’m proud of it, and I think you’ll enjoy it.
It’s just five bucks on Bandcamp, and with promo code ziggurat it’s an additional 20% off (indeed, that 20% off applies to everything on Bandcamp). My entire discography is $59.64; with 20% off, that’s just $47.71 for twenty-two albums, or about $2.17 per release. Dang!
Barring some sudden boost of inspirado, Leftovers III will be my last release for 2024. I set a goal for myself to release ten albums and/or EPs this year, and I’ve achieved it. I don’t know if 2025 will feature ten albums (probably not), but I’ll definitely be releasing more music at some point next year.
If you’re the streaming type, you can find LIII at the following services:
And pretty much anywhere else where music is streamed.
Here’s hoping everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoy these leftovers.
Happy Listening!
—TPP
This Friday, 29 November 2024 my tenth release of the year, Leftovers III, will hit all streaming platforms (including Spotify). In advance of the EP’s release, I wanted to feature the composition that is the centerpiece of LIII, “Hanging Gardens.”
Subscribers to my SubscribeStar page received an early sneak-peek three days ago. Now I want to share this lengthy piece with all of you!
Before that, though, just take a moment to appreciate this decadent album artwork:
I think I made that sandwich over the summer, and took a picture of it about halfway through. No wonder my blood pressure and waistline are showing such high numbers!
But onto the piece itself. “Hanging Gardens” is the longest piece I have ever composed, clocking in at about 10:46 (I think the YouTube video has it at 10:47). I actually wanted to make it longer—around twenty minutes—to give it a more symphonic feel, but I reached the point where I a.) had to finish it to meet the 29 November 2024 release deadline and b.) I was out of ideas to pour into this enigmatic suite.
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It took some rapid, almost-last-minute composing, but yours portly has completed his tenth release for 2024, the EP Leftovers III. It’ll hit Bandcamp and all streaming platforms this coming Friday, 29 November 2024—Black Friday.
While I have many older, unreleased pieces locked between the FAT32 file system and within the confines of Cakewalk 3.0 (which ran on DOS-based Windows 3.1!), I don’t have access to any super old material for this third Leftovers installment. As such, I actually composed some pieces specifically for it, which runs somewhat contrary to the ethos of the Leftovers releases. Leftovers and Leftovers II consisted largely of pieces I’d written (or started to write), but which I abandoned for one reason or another. Some of them I finished for the releases, slapping on endings or tying up incomplete phrases. Others were super old pieces that I’d never distributed digitally, so the only way to hear them was by being one of the few dozen people who received homemade burnt CDs with my tunes on them back in the late Aughts.
For LIII, I composed new works. Some of them are just short snippets that I’d jotted down in my music journal. But I also wanted to write something long and epic.
The result is “Hanging Gardens” a musical fantasy suite for piccolo, flute, trombone, and tuba.
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