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Integrity: PDP has never accepted sponsorship money of any kind, or accepted offers for any of our songs to be used for advertising.
Music, Poetry and Art are forms of absolute free expression and should remain so. That is our bond with you. Truth.

It's the dawning of a new era.
Time to collect ourselves and remember who we really are,
...before the sound of commercial agitation all around us.

Don't get led by the herd.
Remember your original heart.
Honor it. Defend it.
Your child's heart holds the dream... follow it.
The computer, cell phone & t.v. screen
are only an electric 'other world' of distraction,
and that world is not as real as this one.
Your soul is timeless.
Your soul is one of a kind & precious!
Honor it. Follow it. Defend it.
Kill for it.

PDP likes to give pleasure
PDP likes to cook the food they love & rejoice in it
PDP has no patience for hypocrisy
PDP believes you should be who you truly are
PDP loves life... regardless
PDP does not like genetic modification
PDP trusts in nature
PDP respects a good glass of wine
PDP laughs at main stream media
PDP loves a song that makes them cry
PDP wants to build a home library
PDP likes to really connect
PDP loves people
PDP distrusts commerce for commerce's sake
PDP trusts art & passion
PDP trusts people
PDP trusts life
PDP believes there is no evil
PDP believes that there is ignorance
PDP believes truth will find a way
PDP believes you should trust your true heart first
PDP believes life will show the way
PDP wants everyone & every living thing to bloom

It is our goal here at Platetectonic Music to make this site a sort of 3 dimensional virtual magazine
with a cornucopia of broad topic things to share, including music, but beyond it too;
As Kerouac and the Beat Poets used to say 'everyone is a saint and everything is holy'... and that is the way we see it.

 PLATETECTONIC SEISMIC EVENTS

THIS FRIDAY NIGHT FRANK ORRALL DJ'S AT JUICY
Rodney cooks the pig and sabers the champagne
the trumpet call is out to all the bon vivants

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Platetectonic Radio IS NOW broadcasting to you live on the
on the electronic air waves,
from beautiful Hyde Park Chicago,
sending you love, rock, folk  and Internacionale soul. 
 

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BRAND NEW UP-COMING PDP CONCERT LISTINGS 
Announcing new up-coming POI DOG PONDERING CONCERTS! Click Here:

July 19 - Sheffield Garden Walk, Chicago Il., 8pm
 
 
September 18th   PDP @ Schubas CHI-TOWN

September 24
, 2009  @ Regattabar  - Cambridge, MA
1 Bennett St, Cambridge, MA - (617) 661-5000

September 25, 2009
PDP @  Tupelo Music Hall -  Londonderry, NH
2 Young Rd, Londonderry, NH - (603) 437-5100

Oct. 2 - 4th  Austin City Limits festival
PDP plays oct 2nd, (Thievery Corporation will also be playing that night)
 
December 4th:  San Francisco. California
PDP @ SLIMS  ( 333 11th St)

December 5th: Portland Oregon
PDP @ THE DOUG FIR 
(830 East Burnside Street ) 



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to leave a comment on the Poi Dog Pondering
GRAFFITI WALL

 
PDP's Frank Orrall and El John are out on tour
with Thievery Corporation

06/26: @ Electric Daisy Carnival, Los Angeles CA
08/07: @ Lollapalooza, Chicago IL
08/28: @ Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival, San Francisco CA
10/02: @ Austin City Limits Festival, Austin TX
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One of the many things I like about Thievery Corporation is that they like to sing and play acoustic instruments on the bus or in the hotel room after the show. When I joined T.C. back in 2000 (or so) I had sort of given up the guitar in favor of other instruments, but it was these late night jam sessions with them (a supposed 'electronic band') that brought me back to the guitar - and now my love for the guitar is stronger than it has ever been. T.C. Principle; Rob Garza (seen here in the top 2 photos) is the main reason I found the guitar again. These pictures are from the the last tour in our Philly hotel room 'unwinding' 4 a.m. style.
 

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Frank singin Revolution for the Corporation
Photo by Yale Gurney

 

 

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 New full length release by Frank Orrall's 8fatfat8 entitled
"Music from the Gaijin Hotel"
Available here NOW for digital down load!

 NEW VIDEO FROM POI DOG PONDERING

Life
Death
Love
Compassion
(and the search for meaning)

...Going
over the top in 
 
GOD'S
GALLIPOLI

 

PDP Violinist and Vocalist Susan Voelz
set to release her new solo album
"The Monarchy Treasure" this spring! 

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PDP Cellist Helen Money finishing up her new solo record!

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New Features

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Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli

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“DISARM"
DVD out now
Click photo to enter 





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Album 

Jeremy Brett tribute

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Palm fabric Orchestra,
Ellen Fullman & the
Long String Instrument

new video

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Frank w/ typewriter
photo by Luke Savisky
click photo to read prose

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brothers and Sisters, Welcome to Platetectonic Music  
 
The recording home of:  
 
Poi dog Pondering,  Palm Fabric Orchestra,  8fatfat8,  
Lost Souls of the Great Lakes, 
Los Immortales de Chicago  & The Soft Explosion. 

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Music and photos by: John Prentis
http://www.jbpiv.com/

Poi Photos by Matt Carmichael
http://poi.rocknroll.net/

Discography (maintained by John Relph)

 
 
 
 
 
 

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HELLO BROTHERS AND  SISTERS!
We want to thank you for voting PDP "BEST ROCK /  POP ACT"
in the Chicago Reader's, 2009 Readers Poll!

 

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C.d.s also available at Best Buy, BordersHyde Park Records, Reckless Records, InSound, Waterloo Records and stores Nation wide.
You can also download from these sites below

 





 

 

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