From the 1992 cassette "New Swing Mood Things/Two At Noon" remastered and reissued 2015. https://mudpiesun.bandcamp.com/
℗ 1992, © 1992

Revisited

From the 1992 cassette "New Swing Mood Things/Two At Noon" remastered and reissued 2015. mudpiesun.bandcamp.com/
℗ 1992, © 1992

Month Of Sundays

From "Microcosmic Island: Songs of Jim Rao"
by Mud Pie Sun
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Jim Rao’s early cassettes from 1990-1992 were critical influences and inspirations for us. We were writing and home-recording psych-folk-pop guitar-based songs on 4-track cassette in those years, and it took no small effort to find fellow travelers back then. We first heard of the mysterious “James T. Rao” via a 1990 review in Fred Mills’ “Cassette Hell” column in The Bob zine. We wrote to Jim via US Mail, and he sent back a nice letter referring us to English psych label Acid Tapes, where we ordered his cassettes, receiving them via British Post several months later.

Finding Jim’s early tapes gave us a real sense of “Ah! Here’s someone doing a similar thing, only better!” His music and voice then were somewhat darker and perhaps more overtly psychedelic than his later Orange Cake Mix recordings. But throughout his body of work we heard an intimate, melancholy sound with strong melodies, floating along on some strange river.

These songs come from the 1991 “Tao Window” cassette, now long out of print. That album stood out to us then and now for the way it flows between catchy songs and bizarre sound fragments, creating an emotional arc that ends with the stunningly beautiful “A Garden Gives You Everything.” Recording these songs came very naturally to us because they feel like they are already embedded in our musical DNA.

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You can hear the original version of this song here: tapewrecks.blogspot.com/2011/08/james-t-raos-microcosmic-recording-tips.html

Recent Orange Cake Mix recordings are here: orangecakemix.bandcamp.com.

OCM Discography: www.discogs.com/artist/91109-Orange-Cake-Mix.

This song was recorded for "Orange Daydream,"an upcoming Jim Rao/Orange Cake Mix tribute CD on the Why The Tapes Play label. whythetapesplay.storenvy.com

My Island

From the album "Wooden Circle," 2012 Semipermeable Music. Written by Steven Pitcherella / Tom Quinn. 
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Church of Bitter Souls

From the album "Wooden Circle," 2012 Semipermeable Music. Written by Steven Pitcherella / Tom Quinn.
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Worrisummer

Rob: lead acoustic guitar, singing; Steven: strummy electrical guitar & backwards guitar, singing, drums;   Tom: bass, singing

On This Cold Day

Steven: acoustic guitar, yak. Rob: acoustic guitar, clarinet. Tom: drum, I think.

Hum Drum

Steven: strumming acoustic gtr, vocal, noises. Rob: lead acoustic gtr, backing vocals. Tom: bass.

Who I Was

Mud Pie Sun is Steven and Tom puttering around with pop music. They write and record quiet and loud melodic pop-psych-folkrock-garage-etc. songs in their Philadelphia area homes.

In 1989, inspired by the American and New Zealand underground DIY pop and home-recording ethic, they began home recording 4-track cassette albums along with pal Rob. In the early 1990s, they released 3 full-length recordings under the name Mud Pie on their own and through England's Acid Tapes, and they contributed to a compilation on Boston's Sedimental label. When Tom moved to San Francisco in 1992, the combo went on extended leave.

In 2003, Tom moved back to Philadelphia. They resumed writing and recording new songs under the name Mud Pie Sun in 2004.

Write Mud Pie Sun at rustle@mudpiesun.com