PureVolume

My parents bought me a digital four-track for my birthday back in 1999.  Although I had already been writing songs and playing drums, guitar, bass and piano; now I could put it all together on a cassette tape to play for my friends in my Voyager.  Between 1999 and 2004 I recorded three albums which were not released.  Well, unless you consider giving ten copies to your friends releasing an album.

My first two albums - Dundalk Sunrise (2001) and Assemblage (2003) featured mostly punk/ pop-punk songs with some doo-wop, jazz, hardcore, death metal, and other experimental numbers mixed in.  Around the time I recorded Assemblage I put together another album - Soma (2004) of some songs from Dundalk Sunrise in addition to about ten other songs I'd written around the same time.        

In 2004 I hit the big stage, in that pearl of Baltimore - The Brass Monkey Saloon.  With various lineups I've also graced the stages of The Vault, The Barn, Huckleberry's Coffee House and
St. Margaret's Church.

In 2005 recording began on what would two years later become Ours Was the Saddest Anime (2007).  This was my  first album to be released online.  As usual the genres are all over the place.  This album also features the talents of friends and family which adds to the unique instrumentation in many of the songs.

Around the same time as the online release of Ours Was The Saddest Anime, I set up some borrowed drum mikes and began laying down drums tracks for my next album - Truly I Say To You....  For the first time I recorded an album that could most accurately be classified in one genre - Grindcore.  How about that.  Truly I Say To You... is also available now on CDBaby and iTUNES.

Most recently I recorded a short EP - The Lonely World's Song - of four new songs that can be downloaded for free from percyshaw.com.