If Tommy Walter didn't have bad luck ... well, he wouldn't have those hard-luck stories he can tell about his first two albums. Walter, in his nom de tune Abandoned Pools , released two fine albums last decade. "Humanistic" came out in 2001, just before Extasy Records went belly-up. "Armed to the Teeth" followed in 2005, only to be hung out to dry after Universal was not rewarded with a radio hit. Walter went on to collaborate in Glacier Hiking and Oliver the Penguin , work in production and write for film and TV. [...]
Abandoned Pools — the musical vehicle of Tommy Walter (an original member of Eels ) — return from a five-year hiatus to headline "A Night With Buzz Bands LA" on Tuesday, June 15, at Spaceland. Opening the evening will be up-and-coming indie-pop wizards Chasing Kings , followed by the tightly wound guitar rock of L.A. quintet Vanaprasta . Watch for an announcement of the special guests who will play the midnight set. Abandoned Pools released major-label albums in 2001 and 2005, before Walter moved on to other projects, [...]
Today is World Penguin Day . Searching online I found some incredible footage courtesy of the BBC of penguins actually flying . Please note this story was released a few years ago, on April 1st. I was recently in a friend's wedding and had to wear a tuxedo—thought I'd mention that because of the whole penguin/tuxedo thing. Here's a track by Rie Sinclair's side-project with Tommy Walters (Abandoned Pools, The Eels). I think it's a rather lovely song. Oliver The Penguin - Do I [...]
Per scaricare la compilation di maggio cliccate qui (.zip, 62,8 MB). 1. The Vaselines - Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam 2. Nick Corbo - The Merritt Parkway 3. Perkasie - Ginger Sobs 4. Peter Broderick - The Path To Recovery 5. Christopher Tignor - Last Nights On Eagle Street 6. Coeur De Lane: Burn The House Down 7. [...]
Oliver The Penguin è il nuovo progetto musicale di Tommy Walter, ex bassista degli Eels e Rie Siclair, affascinante artista e compositrice di colonne sonore. Il frutto della loro collaborazione è l'album autoprodotto "Button Pusher", uscito lo scorso mese di marzo. Il duo è autore di un elettropop aggraziato e mai banale, fortunatamente lontano parente delle [...]
Oliver The Penguin started as an unexpected collaboration between Tommy Walter (Eels, Abandoned Pools), & Rie Sinclair (Emmy-Nominated independent composer & Artist) one afternoon in June '07 during an attempt to create a mini theme-song for a TV show. Over think-tank walks down Melrose & conversations of relationships, the two conceptualized a side project, which morphed into something eerily prolific. The classic example of a chemical reaction by slamming particles of computer guy with sub-structure of starlet in small confined Hollywood space. Oliver began to morph into a wider concept, as collected samples of the two's own personal childhood stories [...]
Oliver the Penguin is not so much a band, or an album. It's a persona — a character that sprung from the minds of musician-about-town Tommy Walter and singer-songwriter-composer Rie Sinclair . If the duo has their way, Oliver the Penguin won't just be an album that they plan to release in March, it will be an animated television show. It's just that the soundtrack is done ahead of time. And nifty music it is. "Oliver the Penguin" is nimble electropop that relies on volleys of playful beats from Walter and airy vocals from [...]
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