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Even with my hot new release Math: And Other Delights out in the wild, I still have several tracks to showcase from August’s White Boy Summer.
As such, I’m diving into one of my favorites from the release, “Mellow“:
Pickup my newest release, Math: And Other Delights, now!
With so many releases this year, and with more releases in the works (I’m currently plugging away at Spooky Season III), I have kind of lost track of which album and which piece I’m supposed to be featuring here on Open Mic Adventures. Of course, the title of this series has itself become something as a misnomer, as now I might upload an actual open mic performance just a few times a year. D’oh!
Regardless, it looks like I’m still on pieces from White Boy Summer, my collection of smooth summer jams. This week’s feature, “Perambulating,” is an upbeat piece depicting a vigorous summertime stroll.
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Summer is nearly over—indeed, the symbolic end of summer, Labor Day, has come and gone—but there’s still a little time to embrace the chill of this hot season. As such, I wanted to look back to the track “Summer Vibes” from my album White Boy Summer.
Yours portly keeps churning out the hits, and I’m pleased to announce my seventh album this year, White Boy Summer.
White Boy Summer is a collection of ten summertime jams spanning multiple genres of instrumental music. The title track is a driving retro rocker reminiscent of Super Nintendo side-scrollers, and is perfect for jamming to on the open road. I also rewrote it as a chorale for the album’s finale, “White Boy Summa (Theologica),” a piece for brass trio.
This album heavily favors trombone, and the three major trombone pieces emphasize the chill nature of summertime: “Mellow,” “Lazy River,” and “Summer Vibes.”
“The Sea Crab” is the most experimental piece; it’s a musical interpretation of an unpublished poem of the same name by Liza Libes.
And, despite the title, White Boy Summer is for all people of all races—and both genders.
You can pick it up on Bandcamp for $7. I’ll be posting links to the album on other streaming platforms in the comments.
Rock on!
—TPP
P.S.—Here are a couple of the tracks that have already been uploaded to YouTube:
Yours portly released a new album recently, Heptadic Structure. It’s an exploration of pieces in 7/4, 7/8, and 7/16 time. Each piece is twenty-one written measures, for a total of 149 measures across the seven pieces. Math is fun!
You can listen to and/or purchase the album at the following links:
However, I’m deviating my plan to feature the tracks from that album for (at least) one week, because I am super excited about another album I have coming on Friday, 2 August 2024. It’s called White Boy Summer, and while there are quite a few of my more experimental and modern classical pieces on the release, the title track is a straight-up banger—so much so that I wanted to feature it in today’s edition of Open Mic Adventures.
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