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Artist: Paul de Jong
Title: Auction Block
Album: IF
Release Date: April 28, 2015

Paul de Jong is best known as the cofounder, cellist and resident found sound savant of the beloved, defunct collage-pop duo, the Books. Five years after that band delivered their final album, The Way Out, to much acclaim, de Jong delivers his first solo album, IF.

IF sets the Books' early albums (particularly The Lemon of Pink) as a starting point, and elevates that beguiling sense of wonder and amazement to genuinely transcendent new heights. De Jong's ability to find the musical in the mundane has always been uncanny — it is part of what made the Books so magical – and that gift is what makes IF such a marvelous curiosity, and such a true pleasure to hear. In de Jong’s world, everything around him is a potential instrument: his mind-bogglingly vast collection of forgotten private press regional folk records, spoken-word oddities of indeterminate origin unearthed in discarded thrift store piles, and various everyday household utensils that we tend to take for granted. One man’s trash is de Jong’s tool to craft yet another treasure.

Featuring a handful of friends and family as musical guests, IF steers a course from joyously eccentric folk-pop to humorously inside-out jazz, resulting in a refreshing piece of outsider art with a replay value that's off the charts.

©2015 Temporary Residence Ltd.

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“Under The Sour Cherry Tree”
Composer & Arranger: Amir Mahmoudi
Soprano Voice: Sogand Raoufi
Saxophone: Amirhossein Farkhondeh
Piano: Amir Mahmoudi
Cello: Arvin Moeini Nezhad
Bass Guitar: Mahdi Sharegh
Recording Engineer: Amir Mahmoudi
Recorded & Produced at Igor Music Studio
Mixing & Mastering: Shahriar Alavi
Cover Design: Asma Alinezhad
Official Teaser on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWxnbsEG3bc
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Under The Sour Cherry Tree

Improvisations and experimental materials recorded live in Berlin 2025 - feat. Peter (guitar, piano, keyboards, synthesizer, bass), Delphine (piano, keyboards), Klaus (guitar, bass, drums), Delphine (piano, keyboards), Conny (vocals)

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The Pineapple Thief offer a free download of a 2015 mix of 'Subside', from 'Variations on a Dream'.

Long time fan and friend of the band Russell Lee Padgett sent Bruce a version of himself drumming along to Subside. A track originally released in 2003 from the album “Variations on a Dream”. Russell recorded the drums at Ocean Industries in Charleston, South Carolina USA and sent the parts via the internet. This was the inspiration to remix the track for 2015 and the band have made the track available as a free download gift….   

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Song and lyrics by Bruce Soord
Featuring Russell Lee Padgett on drums  
Drums engineered by Eric Rickert
Mixed by Bruce Soord
Mastered by Steve Kitch at Audiomaster



Bruce Soord, the frontman and creative force behind The Pineapple Thief has released his eponymously titled debut solo album on Kscope.
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The Pineapple Thief - Subside (2015 mix)(from Variations on a Dream)

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Last Day Of June

Driving Home

That Day By The Pier

These 5 songs were originally included as part of a special 3 disc hardback book edition of Insurgentes released on my own label Headphone Dust a few months prior to KScope issuing the standard version. I had around 25 songs in total from the recording sessions, several of which were dropped because they didn't measure up (some of the other leftover pieces are now released on the Insurgentes film DVD), but I felt these 5 songs were as good as the album material, so it wasn't for lack of quality that I left them off, more to do with context and not wanting the album to be too long as a listening experience.  Instead they were included on a separate CD only available with the special edition (and later on vinyl releases).  The whole idea of the special edition was to experiment with doing something really special with the packaging that took advantage of the multi-media aspect of the project (film, photos, music), and to sell only online.  They were very expensive to make and could only be printed as a one-off edition, so I had to guess at how many to make - even then I became so convinced that I wasn't going to be able to sell them that I priced is such that I basically lost money with every copy sold.  Later on I found myself wondering if the small minority that still complained that they had been "ripped off" in only getting a CD, a CD EP, a DVD, and a ten by ten 128 page clothbound full colour book for their £34 were the same people that later sold their copy on eBay for 10 times what they paid for it.  Anyway, I digress....  Here for those that missed out on the special edition, are the bonus Insurgentes songs in full resolution WAVs, enjoy! Best, S

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