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[PTS005 - EP] The Low Hello

The Low Hello EP

I had a band from about October 2005 till around July 2007. It started off slowly. Just some songs I’d written for Songs of the Month and my friend Dan, who recorded drums on Tenille with me.

We did some shows together as a two-piece, and those went off well. I posted an ad on Craigslist for a bassist, and we found Robb, who came out and saw us and subsequently joined us very easily. Adam saw this three piece perform and stopped me after the show to tell us a) he liked my voice, it reminded him of Television, b) he liked my hair, and c) that I should sit down and chat for a while. We eventually opened for his band, Murder Mystery, and when it came time to find a lead guitarist, he filled the spot nicely.

And so that’s where this EP came from, recorded in Robb’s basement. Burned CD-R copies were given away at our shows and it got reviewed in a couple blogs. I still like it, but wish a little that we could’ve done a little more in the way of instrumentation.

The players:
Sunil Sawani: songwriting, rhythm guitar, singing
Dan Bernard: drums
Robb Zimmerman: bass, backup vocals (live)
Adam LeRoy: lead guitar, keyboard, clapping (live)


     ZIP file of all songs (ZIP, 13.2 MB)
     01 Nostalgia Makes Confusion (MP3, 3.0 MB)
     02 Recess (MP3, 2.9 MB)
     03 Lying Down (MP3, 2.8 MB)
     04 New Kind of Stress (MP3, 2.3 MB)
     05 Down Side (MP3, 2.6 MB)

Watch some YouTube videos of the Low Hello performing live:
     Lying Down
     Down Side
     Recess
     Check Your Pockets
     Nostalgia Makes Confusion

[PTS004 - EP] Sunil Sawani - Tenille

Sunil Sawani - Tenille

I had started working on a set of songs as I was finishing college; I didn’t have a band, though, and after the fun I had recording with other people on the Square Miles EP, I decided I wanted to do another full band recording. Luckily, a couple of my friends were in a band called Tenley, and they were amenable to helping me out with my songs. I piggybacked on their practices — as soon as they were finished, Keith (their singer) would step aside, and I’d jump in and we’d work on my songs for a bit. This worked pretty well, and we eventually booked some time at an acquaintance’s basement studio to record.

When they were done, I sat on the songs for a long time (over a year), and then I decided to take the step of actually releasing Tenille as a for-sale product. That was OK in the beginning, as friends and family purchased copies. After that though, the sales dried up, despite the fact that I had it up for sale on iTunes and CDBaby. I am just not the promotion machine one needs to be to make a record really sell and gain buzz… And I’m not really interested in that aspect of things.

This year, I shifted gears and decided to put all the songs up here for free… The “hits” on this one are probably Big Arm and Hard to Be, but I like the EP as a whole, and at that point, I