Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Lee Pardini - The Universe is a House Party
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From 'August Scorched Earth' - Available 9/15/2023
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“At some point in the middle of 2020, I read a collection of poems by Tracy K. Smith, Life On Mars. In it, she writes beautifully about grief, identity, using space age metaphors and imagery. This happened to coincide with stumbling on a record by Les Baxter, Space Escapades, whose album cover perfectly captures the ridiculous camp of Sci-Fi B-level films. In the album version of my song (title borrowed from one of the poems in Life On Mars, which in turn was borrowed from the obvious Bowie song) the mellotron choir and Mini Moog synth were attempts to pay homage to that camp. The main sections with the synth bass, funky drums and blues tilting melody are the ‘house party’, and the tempo shifts in the B sections are to make the listener feel as though this is all happening outside the earth’s atmosphere, floating endlessly outward in space.”

Lee Pardini - Keyboards
Griffin Goldsmith - Drums
Paul Bryan - Synth and Electric Bass

Recording by Bryce Gonzalez
Directed by Caitlin Gerard
Editor: Robin Gonsalves
Camera Operator: Joy Wang
Camera Operator: Mallory Hauser

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