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Paul Cusick’s brand new album, titled “P’dice” is available to pre-order now! The album features Porcupine Tree drummer Gavin Harrison and Steven Wilson’s current touring drummer, Marco Minneman. You can pre-order his album on either CD or digital download via Paul’s bandcamp page, the album will be released on January 16th. The ten songs on ‘P’dice’ were all recorded in between January and October 2011, and Paul wanted to be able to include the drumming talents of some of the world’s best drummers. In order to fulfil that, he sent demo tracks of his work to both Gavin and Marco, who shortly after accepted and recorded their drum parts at their own separate studios. Gavin features on ‘God, Paper, Scissors’, ‘Feel This Way’ and ‘When It Rains’. Marco Minneman features on ‘Everything’, ‘Borderlines’, ‘Tears’, ‘You Know’ and ‘Waiting’. ‘P’dice’ is unique because it was part financed by many of his fans who pre-ordered before he had recorded any songs. He managed to build a substantial fan-base with the release of his first album, entitled ‘Focal Point’ which was released in June 2009. I recommend that you use the ‘share’ button below to help spread the word, Paul is an independent musician who completely relies on his fans for support and promotion.

I’ve included Paul’s description of his new album below, along with a music player containing his songs.

I don’t think I would be too far off the mark by saying we have all exhibited or felt the victim of prejudice in some form or other. It takes on many guises: racism, religious preference, classism, sexism, homophobia, ableism… yes lots of “isms” but this intolerance of others occurs between different gangs, between people of different nationalities, and we sometimes jump to conclusions about someone because of their weight or height. Some even think they know what someone is like because of the type of car they drive, the job they do or the type of music they listen to. 

So what about the dice? Personally I think the place we are born, our gender, our skin colour, our religious beliefs, our physical attributes are not laid down in some grand plan but happen as a consequence of a series of events that occurred down through the history of our ancestry. Many of those events are beyond our control and it’s simply a roll of the dice as to what you get when you are born.  So I started to write songs exploring some of the prejudices that exist. In this album I wrote songs in the first person, but not from personal experiences as I did with Focal Point. However what started as a collection of songs with a common theme slowly took on a life of its own. 

P’dice is the story of one man as he explores moments of his life, his actions, his thoughts, his decisions, his feelings, his realisations and how they were shaped, often unconsciously, by prejudice”. – Paul Cusick