In the winter of 2009, Torbitt Schwartz aka Little Shalimar went to Los Angeles to work on a project with producer Dave Sitek (TV on the Radio, Maximum Balloon) but was immediately sidelined with severe pneumonia. Bed-ridden and heavily sedated with codeine cough syrup and pot cookies, he wrote the songs that would become his debut solo EP, The New Pneumonia Blues. Singing as well as playing every instrument on the album Little Shalimar shows touches of Dr.

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