Philip Price, The Maggies, Winterpills -Bandcamp Bonanza

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All sorts of magic happening over at Bandcamp at this very moment with Philip Price..not only can you download the complete back catalogue of his albums (and every single one it a must have) for various small prices or free but theres also the ongoing remastering project of all the various unreleased and rare music he has done over the years. Starting up with two Unreleased albums by The Maggies. Oh yes indeed. So head over here and have a good old gander for yourselves my gentle ones.
http://bandcamp.com/tag/winterpills?artist=3757319254

Philip Price is obviously one of the finest song writers ever to grace the planet....from the fabulous Maggies, through some drop dead beautiful solo albums and on into his most high profile combo Winterpills he has never once failed to delight and amaze with the sheer quaility of his work. You can read a superb and detailed interview I conducted with the excellent man himself with him right about here.
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As these older albums are remixed and mastered, track by track, the songs will go up here. This eventually will be a 9-song album.
This was the last collection of recordings the 3-piece version of the band did before Adrian O'Carolan joined the band later in 1997. Recorded partly in Keene, NH in the house Philip shared with friend and photographer Michael Moore in 1995 (who documented much of the band during this time period and after), finished down in Philip's new hometown of Northampton, MA in 1996, it was originally to be titled "Sex Diary", after a song that never made it onto the album. (That song will be included here as a bonus track when the full album is remixed and uploaded).

Like the other Maggies projects of this time, a little less than half these songs made it onto the 'real' releases; some never did, and therein lies they're charm. They never received the full studio treatment, and never will.
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Eventually, this will be an 11-song album.
This is the second project by the original lineup of The Maggies, and sought to significantly sonically expand upon the "Tulip" EP of previously in the year. Adding to their increasing ambition and activity in New Hampshire and New England, the band also faced a name change issue: they had received a legal threat on the band's original name of 'Tulip' and were forced to make a change. Briefly, the band was Iris, until yet ANOTHER legal challenge came down; eventually they settled on The Maggies, simply because they liked the way it sounded (although later they realized people would assume they were some kind of traditional Irish band...)

The album was recorded at Philip's house using a jerry-rigged and rickety 6-track method; this led to significant generational loss in their attempt to load up the tracks with sounds. All that has been corrected in the new remixes.