We're psyched to announce that we've teamed up with our friends at Austin's Chaos in Tejas to help present a couple of amazing shows at this year's fest, starting with one of our favorite / most important artists in the history of this site, Portland's Grouper , along with Jessica Pratt and Silent Land Time Machine on May 31 at the beautiful Central Presbyterian Church in downtown Austin. We have 5 pairs of tickets to give away for this [...]
Live This Month: May 2013 — an audio guide through SF concerts this month (Podcast #305) In Live This Month , we sample some of the great local and out-of-town bands performing in the coming month in the San Francisco Bay Area. Few recent artists have transitioned from lo-fi to hi-fi better than Kurt Vile , whose latest album, Wakin on a Pretty Daze , is another winner from the Philly-based musician, full of long, languid songs that feel spacious but not aimless. [...]
Like the rest of the music internet, we regularly look for FACT’s mixes to check up on what's going on across the pond (and further, also sometimes closer). It's all generally good stuff, depending on ... read more
San Francisco-based folk songstress Jessica Pratt has announced a slew of U.S. tour dates in support of her recently released self-titled album on Tim Presley's (White Fence) new imprint, Birth Records. "Night Face"...
Download a somber, unsettlingly eerie new mix from Portland's Liz Harris for FACT , entitled Image Of True Death . No tracklist / more info here : mp3: Grouper :: FACT mix (April 2013) ( 81 mb )
House of Cosy Cushions visionary Richard Bolhuis chats Cynthia Dall and expresses regret over missed vinyl opportunites... Dutch songwriter and voice of minimalist folkies House of Cosy Cushions Richard Bolhuis spent over five years living in Dublin before heading back home to Groningen, probably pulled by the lure of his beloved Magic Buzz record store. Having released the aptly-titled Haunt Me Sweetly in 2012, the past year or so has been spent creating various works - be [...]
Grouper , the ambient solo project of Portland artist Liz Harris, will make a rare live appearance with collaborator Ilyas Ahmed at the Hemlock Tavern on Tuesday, May 28. Danny Paul Grody and Irwin Swirnoff (of aQuarius recOrds ) will support the intimate show. In 2011, Grouper collaborated with Ahmed on a limited edition EP called Visitor (sorry for grabbing the last copy from aQuarius – maybe, just maybe, the pair will have a couple extra copies for [...]
Church music... - by Benjamin Bland
The establishing of an annual metropolitan festival in a city alien to his own during which our weatherbeaten curator intends to congregate practitioners of explicitly "disparate music and genres" may initially appear an immoderately audacious endeavour. Though so spake the inimitably intimidating, and indeed ever valiant Michael Gira ahead of the inaugural Mouth To Mouth – a showcase of sorts geared toward just the one lone goal, with that being the engendering of undiluted joy. It's surely the solitary sensation every show aims to provoke and though centred around artists "chosen based on their ability to resuscitate, set [...]
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You'll need no such inherently petrifying medical equipment to jack up the pulse next Thursday, 4th April other than Michael Gira and Swans' inaugural Mouth To Mouth shindig, that's for sure. Taking place from five in the afternoon 'til the evening ticks on over into Friday, the NYC stalwarts' primary grumbler is to bring an itself electrifying line up to north London for the first night of 'an annual series of musical events curated by M. Gira/ Swans around the world concentrating on urgent performance-orientated music, irrespective of arbitrary genres or styles.' Sounds precisely what [...]
Grouper's five-year old collection culls some of her most accessible material ever, just in fragments. Only two of Liz Harris's records are about treading the landscape. The art sleeve for Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill, an album now arguably revered as an underground classic for a hundred interpersonal reasons (drone, dream pop, "rain music", whatever you want to call it), pictures a young Harris in the foreground of a forest, shrouded by the murk of its tree branches. It's a presence that exists imprinted on the album --...
[ click for larger image ] Our friends at self-titled magazine have hooked us up with a copy of Liz Harris of Grouper 's beautiful, extremely limited (100 prints), signed Repeating Patterns 2 print - pictured above - to give away to one of you. The print was produced for self-titled 's new Heavy Issue , as Liz's "visual interpretation of heaviness." "Each 17″ x 22″ print is sealed with a [...]
Beautiful and eerie, The Man Who Died in His Boat begins with impressionism, awash in a murky sea of tonal resonance and slowly unfolding beauty. The second track brings in lyrics, but the vocals are so muted and touched with a seeming bit of delay, to the point where the words are a little indiscernible. Of course, the unified feeling this whole things presents drives home the fact that the production style is just as important as the songwriting and tape loops are. Grouper, a one-woman project from Portland, Oregon, is the accompaniment to a walk through the [...]
Wow. And just like that, we have almost reached the 300th mix tape in the history of Swan Fungus. How fitting that it should occur just a handful of days after the 8th anniversary of my first blog post. I'll try to make next Sunday a big, special installment for you. No, it won't contain [...]
Grouper The Man Who Died In His Boat 2013 - Kranky [ 8.1 ] . . ... Lo que conocemos como Grouper es [...]
Ludwig Van Beethoven once said, “Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.” This quote came to my mind when I listened to Liz Harris a.k.a Grouper’s new release, The Man Who Died In His Boat. ... Continued
With Rachel Zeffira 's debut solo album The Deserters , the Canadian-born, London-based musician wants to make her presence known in the world of baroque pop. And it shouldn’t be that hard. Zeffira is an immensely talented multi-instrumentalist, with conservatory training in everything from violin to cathedral organ. The Deserters is a whirlwind of a debut album, and quite the departure from her previous work with Cat’s Eyes , a duo project with UK distortion wizard Faris Badwan. The Deserters , which Zeffira self-produced and recorded [...]
Swans are set to curate a special Mouth to Mouth Curator Event at London's Koko in April and have confirmed Grouper as a recent addition to the bill. Taking place on 4 April 2013 at the Camden venue, Swans will also be joined by the likes of Xiu Xiu , Ben Frost and Mercury Rev 's Cinematic Silent Sound Tettix Wave Experiment. Frontman Michael Gira said of [...]
by Paul Stephen Gettings February 19, 2013 Perpetually calling out from behind a dark cloud of fuzz, analogue hiss and shuddering tape delay, Grouper 's music may be quiet and distant, but it makes a big impression on those who take the time to peer out at it. The moniker of Portland, Oregon's Liz Harris, the songwriter who has been slowly gathering status as one of the most unique, spellbinding artists around today, particularly on the back of her stunning, hypnotic live shows. The Man Who Died In His [...]
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