Good new interview
https://www.emilyelhaj.com/lovelionmusic/2017/09/interview-with-liz-harris-of-grouper.html
And she's playing here in SF in a couple of weeks.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 17:11 (six years ago) link
whoa, i wonder what this is:
I recently licensed a song to a television show [you guys are going to flip].
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 17:16 (six years ago) link
great interview btw, thanks for sharing ned
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 17:17 (six years ago) link
What is your dream job outside of playing music?
My dream job is not performing music. Most of my job ideas are more non-paying adventures than careers. I took a career test in my twenties and remember “related to the spirituality or the occult/religious leader” and “sailor." I’ve followed through on “sailor” --- I love very much being on the water. I do sailing races on my friend’s boat every summer in Astoria and am looking into getting a small boat with an electric outboard to toot around the Columbia River.
I’d like to get a shit job on a container ship or find a sailboat to crew on and do a trans-oceanic voyage at some point before I die. I volunteer at a National Park here in Astoria. Basically, I just pick up trash and kick rocks off the trails but I get to wear a uniform and use a walkie-talkie which is about 80% of the pleasure if I’m entirely honest. I’d really like to drive in a car race or demolition derby. I’d like to be paid to walk around or hike. My month-long hiking trip in New Zealand two years ago definitely cost me money though so still some work to be done there I guess. So far, as paying jobs go -- I spent my 20’s working with differently abled adults and I miss it every day. I love care-work, with children, elders, animals, whomever. It feels challenging and rewarding in a straightforward way that music doesn’t.
― nomar, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 18:03 (six years ago) link
I will be at early show. :)
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 20:33 (six years ago) link
Same here!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 20:56 (six years ago) link
i'm still deciding whether i'm going to the early show or the late show depending on if i want to catch JEANNE DIELMAN showing at BAMPFA that same evening
― joshywinty (josh), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 23:33 (six years ago) link
Go to both shows
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 01:34 (six years ago) link
okay, i chose the early show -- say hello if you see someone roughly 5'6 with a buzzed head
― joshywinty (josh), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 05:27 (six years ago) link
old items getting restocked is great and all but shit i got two email notifications from bandcamp on my phone today saying "New Items from Grouper" and each time I got super excited thinking a new single from a possible upcoming album was on it's way, but no :(
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 05:37 (six years ago) link
nothing on a new single and/or album (though she's doing a project that will be performed during this year's Unsound), but a very nice interview: https://lovelionmusic.blogspot.com/2017/09/interview-with-liz-harris-of-grouper.html
― willem, Thursday, 14 September 2017 14:29 (six years ago) link
what i did get to hear of liz last night was lovely . . . but, dearest brooklyn scenesters, why would you go to a grouper show . . . and talk the whole way through it? ugh― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, April 17, 2011 9:03 AM (six years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, April 17, 2011 9:03 AM (six years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i read this post and immediately knew which show this was
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQO3iISbSqA
fucking crowd sucks
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 27 September 2017 06:03 (six years ago) link
Same thing happened at DARK MOFO in Hobart until someone a few rows from the front turned around and bawled SHUT THE FUCK UP. I love Grouper irrationally, but I often listen to the music at overwhelming volume for the sensory overload feeling, and I was looking forward to being able to lose myself in the live performance. It was beautiful but I kept getting distracted by fuckheads more interested in themselves than the music they'd paid to see, and I couldn't help wishing for a little help from the stage. I understand what's special about a room of hushed people listening to soft music, but if I'm completely honest it feels a little wilful to play that quietly.
I'll get me coat.
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Wednesday, 27 September 2017 07:08 (six years ago) link
I know, she plays very quietly. I saw her in a chapel at UVA two years ago that held 250 people, & even with a completely silent & reverential crowd, it was remarkably quiet in the back. I felt like I was straining to hear during the set.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 27 September 2017 07:39 (six years ago) link
when i saw her it was a perfect volume, loud & encompassing without being uncomfortable
― ufo, Wednesday, 27 September 2017 07:47 (six years ago) link
Thankfully the show the other day here was 1) fantastic 2) had a deathly quiet audience and we were all the happier for it.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 27 September 2017 13:12 (six years ago) link
Did you recognize any of the material she played? Or was it all one lovely gauzy blur?
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 27 September 2017 14:12 (six years ago) link
I definitely recognised things - maybe 2-3 songs - but often radically rearranged (e.g. Ruins material played as guitar ostinatos, recognised them from lyrics).
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Wednesday, 27 September 2017 21:30 (six years ago) link
also continuous, beautiful projected images behind the stage - thematically matched to what I think about her music, which is like hazy memories of beautiful songs.
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Wednesday, 27 September 2017 22:11 (six years ago) link
she played "holding" from RUINS and "fishing bird" from DRAGGING A DEAD DEER
― joshywinty (josh), Wednesday, 27 September 2017 23:15 (six years ago) link
Fishing Bird???? whoa. that's pretty remarkable. was Holding the guitar arrangement? when I saw her 2 years ago, she opened with Alien Observer and played mostly Ruins stuff like Holding and Labyrinth (complete with microwave beep).
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 27 September 2017 23:25 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XyJB1qq9zw&
― flappy bird, Saturday, 30 September 2017 06:25 (six years ago) link
I’ve always wondered are the dark circle under her eyes makeup or she doesn’t sleep that much? In some pictures they look natural but they keep changing size and then in others she doesn’t seem to have them at all.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 30 September 2017 09:19 (six years ago) link
she did say that the Sleep piece was performed/recorded after a long period of sleeplessness. but i had a friend that had a similar thing, it’s genetic.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 30 September 2017 17:08 (six years ago) link
her collaborator Paul Clipson has died. they did a lot of amazing work together.
vimeo.com/109943175
― flappy bird, Monday, 5 February 2018 23:09 (six years ago) link
Paul Clipson - a criminally unsung luminary of the moving image - has died. His images, layers upon layers of light and energy and feeling has been an inspiration. Very sad news. pic.twitter.com/3721ZHdLUg— Scott Barley (@ScottBarleyFilm) February 5, 2018
― flappy bird, Monday, 5 February 2018 23:10 (six years ago) link
RIP
when I saw her last year his work was projected above her and it was rather incredible
― ufo, Monday, 5 February 2018 23:22 (six years ago) link
Likewise, I'm sad that it took this loss for me to find out who'd made those beautiful images.
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 12:09 (six years ago) link
Hoping for a new album this year.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 02:19 (six years ago) link
🙏🙏🙏
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 04:13 (six years ago) link
btw
The Sound They Make At Night - GROUPER - AIA Dream Loss, Alien Observer POLL
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 04:15 (six years ago) link
Every time I see this thread pop up I pray that it's new Grouper music getting announced. Ruins was all the way back in 2014!
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 04:58 (six years ago) link
this all fits in my with my theory that everything that is good has been frozen in time (see stars of the lid)
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 05:02 (six years ago) link
Didn't she say something at one point about being finished with the Grouper project? (Though before last year's seven inch, I think)
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 05:04 (six years ago) link
It was in one magazine interview that I heard more talk about than the interview or even quote itself... but I do remember reading the exact quote. It wasn't entirely clear and was probably taken out of context and blown out of proportion and the whole "she's retiring Grouper" bit went thru a game of telephone. having said that, yeah, since 2014 she's only put out 3 songs: the Paradise Valley 7" (recorded in 2012), and "Children," an outtake from Ruins (recorded in 2011). So we haven't even heard anything recorded past 2012.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 05:08 (six years ago) link
What year was Helen?
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 05:20 (six years ago) link
single in 2012, album in 2015. but Helen isn't Grouper.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 05:21 (six years ago) link
(gets off ass and Googles it)right of course flappy, but it might count as "done with Grouper" - so the album came out in 2015 and was recorded across "several years" prior, thus I guess Helen is the most recent Liz Harris work out there?
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 05:23 (six years ago) link
i'm optimistic she'll come out with something pretty soon. she's played several shows since last june, so it's not like she isn't active
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 05:38 (six years ago) link
do you all know about Hypnosis Display, from 2014? it barely rung a bell, but it's mentioned on her CV (http://www.repeatingpattern.com/cv.html):
Music Commission- Commissioned by Leeds Opera North to collaborate with film-maker Paul Clipson on a 75 minute film and soundtrack entitled Hypnosis Display to be performed live this Summer in the UK.
the only mention in this thread is by schlump, but here's some quick stuff i tracked down (ie the top 2 google results):
11 minute excerpt: https://vimeo.com/109943175https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2015/04/07/interview-grouper-and-paul-clipson-discuss-hypnosis-display/
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 05:43 (six years ago) link
somehow i just totally missed all of that, whenever it happened
this is her mural in portland:
https://i.imgur.com/c15q8X9.jpg
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 05:45 (six years ago) link
hey i know where that is! i pass it fairly often and never knew it was harris' work, thanks karl!
― Clay, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 05:54 (six years ago) link
Oooh I thought Hypnosis Display was in 2012. I got it mixed up with Violet Replacement.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 06:07 (six years ago) link
xxp man that is cool, thanks
― sleeve, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 15:09 (six years ago) link
New album in late April, Grid of Points. Enjoy a song from same:
https://soundcloud.com/kranky/grouper-parking-lot/s-1V3kb
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 March 2018 14:04 (six years ago) link
At last.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 8 March 2018 14:10 (six years ago) link
x-post to ned - posted within 15 minutes of that track being uploaded - damn you're quick
the piano sounds wonderful
― willem, Thursday, 8 March 2018 14:12 (six years ago) link
I keep an eye on things
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 March 2018 14:16 (six years ago) link
Gorgeous. Wonder if this is another piano centric album.
― Evan, Thursday, 8 March 2018 14:20 (six years ago) link