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Pizza Carbonara (2011)
This was the first of my experiments in doing a home recorded full band setup with drums, bass, and electric guitars – it’s super lo-fi rock and roll and you can tell I was having fun when I made it.
A bunch of these tracks are online as music videos, including the title track – and the closing song “Tree”, which is this unexpected downtempo jazzier song.
The idea of a carbonara pizza just kind of randomly came to me – I was eating a lot of pasta carbonara at the time – especially from the 7th Avenue Doughnut Shop & Luncheonette in Brooklyn, which was open 24 hours and had great doughnuts, but their pasta carbonara was never that good from what I remember – this didn’t stop me from ordering it, though. I think their recipe has improved since 2011, and their doughnuts are also still really good.
Since I released this album, I’ve started to notice pizza carbonara on restaurant menus occasionally – can I take credit for this?
Doubtful – it’s just a really good idea for a pizza, so someone was going to start making pizza like that at some point – I had never seen it on a menu before, but I’m sure someone was doing it long before I made this album and I just wasn’t aware of it.
Also, none of the songs on the album even mention Italian food.
The title track is mostly about ghosts, and it was the first time I wrote a song about a ghost in a gas station – which I revisited much later on, when I turned it into a song about fossil fuels, US imperialism, and indigenous sovereignty that I did 3 different versions of (titled: “East River Sunset”, “Ghosts!”, and “Ghosts! (We Have Always Been At War)”) on 3 different Cannonball Statman albums (Miracle on Neon Clown Avenue, Hard to Break, and Cannonball Statman, respectively).
In fact, before I chose the 3 different official titles I ended up choosing for the 3 different versions of it, it was simply going to be called “Another Pizza Carbonara” – I didn’t remember this, until I found a draft of the lyrics for this song that I’d written in the winter of 2018-’19, and apparently that’s the title I’d been going with at the time!
At some point between then and March 2019, when I arrived in London to record Miracle on Neon Clown Avenue, I decided to change the title to “East River Sunset”.
But unlike that song, which later came to be titled “Ghosts!”, the title track for Pizza Carbonara is not about fossil fuels, US imperialism, or indigenous sovereignty – it’s actually just a song about ghosts.
from Out of Print and Unavailable Discography (as Jesse Statman)
Stench of the City (2012)
Collision (2011)
When it Rains (2011)
Painting With You (2011)
Pizza Carbonara (2011)
Rainbow in Santa Cruz (2010)
Motion Dream (2010)
For Your Listening Pleasure (2010)
Electric Fuzz Tiger, Wooden Room, World Stuff, and Space Travel (2010)
(or, go to the beginning for the full list of out-of-print and unavailable projects)