Baby Dino is the shit. I have been bumping her homemade recordings for the last year and this is her first intentional solo album release. She was kind enough to release the whole thing for free. Listen to the whole album ‘All Of Our Friends Are Dead‘ by clicking on the photo above or player below or even right here and downloading it for FREEEEEEEEE!! This album is full of really beautiful and delicate recordings. Her song writing is incredibly heart warming and vulnerable with a strong hint of gangsterness. She has been playing guitar and bass for New York friends bands Cymbals Eat Guitars, Lissy Trullie, and Modrocket but her solo work is the most important. My favorites are 1993 (aka I was Molested) and No Friends.
Let me know what you think of the album in the comment section below.

Her songs are like fresh baked sugar cookies.

Baby Dino is my friend.

I love Baby Dino.

Straight up, I’ve been feeling hella depressed for the last 5 years and this is how I’ve been dealing with it. This is the first of 3 albums that were written and recorded during this time. Basketball is nine mostly acoustic simple guitar and vocal based tracks. I feel weird about charging fixed prices for my music so I am releasing this one as a donate “what-ever-you-feel” download for a month and then I will release it officially on itunes for all those people with iphones.

To download Basketball, click on the photo below, donate what ever you feel, and after successful check out stay on the page and the album will automatically start downloading onto your computer. Like magic. VERY IMPORTANT, don’t click away from the page after you donate to ensure it downloads successfully. If there is a problem you can email me at patparra@gmail.com or comment below and I will make sure you get the music. Enjoy.

DONATE and DOWNLOAD!

Here is a list of the nine songs that make the album. I decided to write a little about each song and include some associated photos since we on Lovebryan and all.

1. Sun – This song was written one of many nights when I wasn’t able to sleep obviously. I recorded it sitting on my bed staring at the busy street,

2. Last Night – I was really overwhelmed with a feeling of wanting to die one night, and thinking of my brothers reaction to me not being around kept me on this earth. Danilo has always been my angel and I’m a jew.

3. Ridiculous – A song that tells the story of my trip from Chile to Peru in 2004 trying to save my relationship with a girl who cheated on me. The only problem was that I felt like killing everybody and blowing up the whole country. Needless to say the trip was a failure. Of course I learned a lot and am still learning a lot about being honest with myself and eventually letting go. The letting go part is obviously the part I need the most help with. Not judging my feelings no matter how positive or how negative has also been a lesson.

4. Listen – I felt like I was sending a lot of mixed messages and was hopeless in romantic relationships. This one is also about how hungry I get.

5. Somewhere – Not really sure what this one is about, but thought it would make a good intermission song for the middle of the record. I like the feeling of it and that it is mostly instrumental.

6. Same – Another song about suicide and lying girls, partly inspired by Harold and Maude.

7. Someone Else – A song about being sick of myself and how much of a ho I have been and how we all are or can be.

8. Sun Down – Remembering the good times before my ex-girlfriend cheated on me with a fake hippy, and how I let it kill me for “the last four years.”

9. Zombie – Pretty self explanatory, I met the girl who cheated on me at a Zombie Prom party. Duh. At this party I was the dude who married every one and found out their signs to see if they were compatible before carrying on with the ceremony.

I am not in this photo, that dude is not me.

DOWNLOAD, Click on the photo.

All songs written, recorded, mixed, and instrumented by Pat Parra
Mastered by Garrett Haines, Chief Mastering Engineer at Treelady Studios
Special Thanks to my brother, my lovely mother Kat Parra, my dad who produced this album with porotos, Mario S., Brian Archuleta, Heavy Mello, Bryan for the undying support and all my friends and family for putting up with me through everything.

Photo by Sergio Brizuela

Kid Yellow by Spencer Keeton Cunningham.

Katy.

Stages is my first release and is a mix of simple hip hop, tofu, elephants, electronic and acoustic recordings.

Stages 2006

Exercise is about 10 hip hop tracks recorded in living rooms, closets, bedrooms and bathrooms. Songs about my home town, soap, dreams and girls I’ve loved.

Exercise 2009

Please download my music if you don’t have it already and I can’t wait to get you my new album entitled Basketball: Adventures in Rebounding.

Very Much Love,
Pato

PS. Heres a couple videos of songs that are on my new album. The first one is by my roommate who thought my song was too fast and decided to slow it down for this video.

The second is a song called last night performed live.

Thanks in advance.

And heres a little cell phone movie my roommate and I made while waiting for some film to develop at Walgreens.

Halloween, sorry for the tardinesssesseesss.

Vintage PP T. $200. Modeled by roommate.

Spencer Keeton Cunningham.

Yogi roommate.

Roommate limo steeze.

Creepy Australian/ Avid Game reader.

Mexicans.

Yeah right.

Depressing, right Roommate?

Psss. I got a new acoustic album coming out in like two weeks. Happy Jew Day

Whoa there Marsha.

Special thanks to Marsha, Claudia and Katie for letting me roll with them.

Come through if you’re in San Francisco.

katparra.com for more info.