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new to stock as of
october 9th, 2008
threads:
modern-psych
guitar-themed
lo-fi
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| | | acuarela discos (spain) #nois 086 cd grouper / inca ore “split” compact disc - grouper - little gray cat (4:26)
- grouper - poison tree (3:17)
- grouper - fallow (4:07)
- grouper - a light change (3:21)
- inca ore - churpa champumado (2:04)
- inca ore - baby tiger, i went far away (1:30)
- inca ore - chipiturca eva emmolata (1:12)
- inca ore - michael, i will meet you at the end of time (2:37)
- inca ore - vista maria (3:13)
- inca ore - the valley of the sherbert cathedrals (5:24)
- inca ore - sorry to the sea (1:03)
| | click the play button to hear an excerpt of "chipiturca eva emmolata" |
| october 2008 release ; four new pieces by liz harris & a straight seven from eva saelens ...
the grouper pieces work liz’s murmer-vox with muted guitar & electric piano figures ; scaled back a bit from her recent “dragging a dead deer” set ... but, for me, the crux of the disc is eva’s set of inspired miniatures ; all damaged tape-noise addled etudes with gobs of garbled vocals & mystery-layers ... |
| | acuarela discos press release... |
| grouper and inca ore split cd
the sound liz harris projects on her records under the moniker grouper has been said to be deceptively simple, but truly emotional. layers of vocals processed again and again through loop delays and chains of effects that create gorgeous whirlpools of chants, guitar drones and tape noise, all full of something unique, pure and powerfully beautiful. the kind of magic harris manages to inject into her recordings is something eva saelens knows about quite well, as inca ore she has also sung and produced music with a touch of wilderness and witchery. liz and eva compiled twenty minutes of unreleased material each on both sides of a c40 recorded at home, a recording that acuarela now re-releases on cd with new cover art and remastered sound.
| eva and i met the first time i went to portland. since then we've been playing and making music around/with a lot of the same folks from oakland and portland. we lived in huffin house/teenage fantasy in oakland, ca together as well. we had talked for a while about doing a split together. i've always liked eva's music a lot, and i had been hearing new solo music she was making and thought it was really intense and beautiful. it was this strange and eerie music about being in foreign place that felt like some sort of trying and formative journey. while i was recording, i was getting these emails from her about being lost in mexico where she had gone on a purposely unplanned and unfunded trip, with fevers, feeling alternately happy and alone in an unknown place. i was up here in portland in the winter, feeling very alone in a new place, but more internally alone i think, alone with people all around, looking for my neighbor's cat that had disappeared mysteriously, out on its own journey. my neighbor was distraught, it had been raining and storming for weeks without letting up. the cat had been gone for a long time. it felt really dark here. i became determined that i had a mission to find this cat for her, that if i did not look for it, no one would ever find it. i knew this was a skewed way to think of it, but after it was in my head i couldn’t get it out, and i spent hours each day in the rain wandering around our neighborhood and in abandoned house lots and construction sites calling out to pica. i was really depressed at the time, not feeling connected to the physical world, and looking for this cat became something to focus on everyday. the music i ended up writing wasn't a straight up song about the cat in particular as this specific lost animal and me being sad about it, because in the mind state i was in, it didn’t feel like that. it felt worse, like a bad spell that was sweeping things around me, a part of me, the cat, eva, off to somewhere dark, portal-like, possibly not in the same plane as everything else, someplace we'd have to find our way back from, and all the looking i might do wouldn’t help because they, it, we weren't even really here. some sort of spirit wrangling would have to happen, something mysterious that would have to be learned. with all this weighing together, i felt like symbols were combining to make this common shape. something dark, feminine, powerful, trying to work itself out of some hole, to fight against itself and build up to someplace new. -- liz harris (grouper) |
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