IF YOUR LIFE WAS A SONG, WHAT WOULD IT SOUND LIKE?
Status Update Songs are real life in miniature. Recorded “on the run, during lunch breaks and between appointments” and using “what’s at hand to get at what’s at heart” are a musical log book captured in some of the most unusual of locations and situations. No. 5 “Burnt Coffee” was recorded in a car stuck in traffic during torrential rain using the wind screen wipers as backing rhythm. No. 10 “Never Less Beholden” was recorded in an airport waiting lounge, complete with boarding call announcements and miscellaneous beeps and pings as accompaniment. No.12 “Forest Beach Song” was recorded at a picnic ground in a forest, where the sound of the forest fauna meets the sound of the portable Casiotone keyboard. The fourth track from this CD, Status Update Song No.3 “Savings Are Slavings”, was recorded whilst walking through Edinburgh Gardens.
For the first time, songs from the Status Updates website form an EP for download! The two songs on this CD version follow the same format as the upcoming album, featuring both the “deluxe version” studio re-record and the warts and all, lo fi and dirty, original version of each song. 14 Status Update Songs is due for Release in May 2011 through Diligent Mowing. Status Update Songs can be found at peterjosephhead.posterous.com