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pupa’s window is the pseudonym for Baltimore
based singer/songwriter Michael Nestor. pupa’s window is
unique in that Michael has taken the indie folk format and mixed
it with a number of other styles, including pop, dance, emo, and
traditional folk. pupa’s window is often compared to Pedro
the Lion, Ida, Idaho, Elliott Smith, Red House Painters, America,
and Radiohead.
Beginning in the mid-’90s, most of the early work of pupa’s
window was known in small musical circles by people who listened
to cassette-based low-fi indie pop. Over the course of 15 home
recordings, two studio-albums released on the Seconal record label,
and two records released by The Beechfields Record Label, pupa’s
window has found a voice and carved out an interesting niche in
the world of low-fi indie folk. Two recent records released by
The Beechfields Record Label, entitled Lost Voice, Found Voice:
Repeat (2003) and An Audiography of Prohibited Sounds
(2004), were both met with critical acclaim and were enthusiastically
received by audiences up and down the east coast. While splitting
time as a member of the indie-rock band The Seldon Plan in 2004
and 2005, pupa’s window was able to gather a large amount
of airplay on college radio as well as make the case for the relevancy
of low-fi indie pop.
The current pupa’s window split CD with indie-pop band The
Chris and Joylene Show, called A Family Portrait,
is both forward-reaching and backward-looking for pupa’s
window. Combining the essential elemental low-fi pop that has
defined the pupa’s window sound with new forms of instrumentation
and songwriting, pupa’s window has put together a blurry
snapshot of a past life in future motion.
This album is simple, and that is its goal, to be simple and clearly
recognizable – something that is increasingly hard to do
in today’s music. It’s perfect for long drives, or
for perusing home and garden magazines. You might hear some Idaho,
Maritime, Damien Jurado or Sufjan Stevens, but mostly you will
hear pupa’s window.
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DISCOGRAPHY
A Family Portrait
BRL 3001 // CD // 2007
SOLD OUT/OUT OF PRINT
Audiography of Prohibited Sounds
BRL 2515 // CDR // 2004
SOLD OUT/OUT OF PRINT
Lost Voice, Found Voice: Repeat
BRL 2110 // CD // 2003
SOLD OUT/OUT OF PRINT
Non-Beechfields releases:
Maryland Music Cooperative: A Sampler of Sorts
MMC 001 // CD // 2002
pupa's window vs. Private Eleanor
OTP 3605 // Vinyl 7"// 2002
Soft Western Songs, For Love [EP]
CDR // 2002
A Word to the Wise From the Wise [EP]
cassette // 1998
Pear Meditations
SR 3521 // CDR, cassette // 1998
Simplicity [EP]
cassette // 1998
Wash Away Idols
CDR, cassette // 1998
Experiments in Spatial Minimalism
SR 2345 // CDR, cassette // 1998
Precogito [EP]
cassette // 1997
We're Going To Find Something
cassette // 1997
Finding Witches and Dragons and Victims
cassette // 1997
Seven Petal Lotus [EP]
cassette // 1997
As Leaves Fall [EP]
cassette // 1997
Peach/Apricot [EP]
cassette // 1996
Milne
cassette // 1996
Fear
cassette // 1995
Gather Love
cassette // 1995
Escape
cassette // 1994
Wind
cassette // 1994
WEBSITE
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PRESS RESOURCES
see Press section for hi-res photos,
press sheet, etc.
REVIEWS
Reviews for A
Family Portrait
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for Lost Voice...
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