Dwarr (Drag City Is Reissuing Dwarr's Animals Album Dontcha Know)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPb3tBK2tmQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrgeBcH7qGA&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVqqdtvyH3Y&feature=related

for fans of that kind of thing.

in the future everyone will be reissued for 15 minutes.

I see you got that email too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-79yPTbH3lE&feature=related

i really only know Dwarr from Youtube! never ever seen the records. definitely deserves a bigger audience.

this auction listing makes it sound pretty epic

Impossibly obscure private-pressed Heavy Metal record from South Carolina (1986). One of the most insane records ever made!

Here's the IMPOSSIBLE to find second DWARR LP! Entitled "Animals" and released in South Carolina in 1986, very few copies made it out of the state. This is a rare metal collector's wet dream! This is a VG+ copy (cover also VG+) from the one and only private pressing on "Brand X" records. Features the songs: Animals, Cannibinol: the Function, That Deadly Night, Are You Real, Chocolate Mescaline, Ghost Lovers, Just Keep Running, Evil Lures, Lonely Space Traveler, Time, Heavy Vibrations, Electric Shock, Lucky Star

The record up for auction is actually one of only about 100 copies (out of the pressing of 1000) which had "special" covers made. Apparently DWARR ran out of album jackets and had to hand make somewhere between 50 and 100 copies with photocopied covers which are hand signed ("Crying Souls is coming... Dwarr") and also hand singed-- that's right, DWARR burned the edges around the photocopies before pasting them to the cover -- giving them a sort of post-apocalyptic rustic feel. I'm also including in this auction an empty sleeve of the original full-color album jacket! So in this auction you get the record with it's original sleeve as well as the SUPER LIMITED hand signed and hand singed sleeve. The sleeve features some of the most awesome (slash, unintentionally hilarious) airbrush artwork ever to grace a metal album!!!

ULTRA DARK/SATANIC HEAVY PSYCH/ROCK FROM DWAYNE WARR (DWARR).. HIS SERIOUSLY BENT AND ALCOHOL FUELED ALTER EGO. HEAVY PSYCH IN A QUASI LOW FI PRODUCTION (THUS ENHANCING THE MENACING MOOD)

Duane Warr recorded two albums in the early 80's in South Carolina before going totally over the edge in an Alcohol and drug induced frenzy whilst recording his third (unreleased) album. He "found God" and, according to one source, burned all the remaining Dwarr albums, master tapes, artwork, etc. This is the second (and better) of his two albums and finding a proper description is tough. This is over-the-top psychedelic doom-metal-insanity -- dark, brooding, and totally whacked out. Duane Warr plays all of the instruments on this album which kind of gives the whole thing a slightly off-kilter feel which enhances the madness. The sound is somewhat like a retarded drug-addled attempt at SABBATH with insane guitar solos and excursions into the most depressing, suicidal sounds ever laid to tape. I got this copy from Duane's brother who also (as a high-school-senior) did the DWARR logo (pictured here... sorry for the scanner cutting off the bottom). The two DWARR LP's are truly some of the strangest metal records of all time. They definitely don't sound like anything else, and the guy comes off as clearly disturbed on this release. Essentially, this is a twisted masterpiece. I'm not gonna lie and say that's it's the most brilliantly executed playing or production... but it's definitely insane. Oh, and also rare as hell. Whispered about by collectors world-wide, who has ever even seen a copy of this?

vocals kinda sound like hendrix

http://img.ymlp94.com/mtmv_DWARR2front.jpeg

drag city blurb:

Dwarr is Duane Warr. Dwarr put out the suicidal, droned out, and brilliant debut Starting Over in 1984, followed by Animals in 1986, Holy One in 2000, and Times of Terror in 2003.

Dwarr's masterpiece Animals tells tales of rage, obsession and vengeance. Duane worked at a plastic factory in South Carolina. Criticism of Starting Over sent him into a paralyzing depression. He decided to appease the people by making a country record. Folks were entertained but it did nothing for Duane. He planned his revenge and decided to make a Dwarr record for himself and no one else. He gave everything he had to Animals. He recorded on a Tascam 8-track in his trailer and played everything but the drums himself. There was no dubbing; all the tracks had to be played straight through. He could nail it and miss the last note and have to start all over again.

The making of Animals was a supernatural, spiritual experience that came at a dark point in Duane Warr's life. Visions and hauntings took place during the making of the record. The lyrics are heavy and breathy and the guitar riffs are doom laden, brutal and heavy as hell. Dwarr created an impenetrably slow and heavy sludge of a record that promises to bludgeon you into a dark yet willing oblivion. There is nothing else like Animals.

they should really have me do their blurbs. i would do it for records.

Been repping for Dwarr for, like, a year now! Dude rules. Total missing link between Terry Brooks & Strange and basement doom metal. If there needs to be a missing link. Dunno.

Drag City gettin' their fingers in my cool pie once again.

drag city doing that a lot lately.

and its your fault for not having heavy vinyl reissue label.

BTW is this going to be something you can actually buy? Or one of those things like the JT IV record where it disappeared in five seconds. I guess the Galactic Zoo Dossier guy is responsible for the pointlessly limited vinyl releases. So anyone know?

xp It's my fault for not having interns to do my detective work for me, too! Actually I think I might've found that dude on Zabasearch or something, too scared to call.

i turned thurst0n on to my pal Anti last week. here's hoping an xtatic peece record is the result.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhlcOJi8YnA&feature=related

i just want people to hear good stuff.

this spur record sounds cool
http://www.dragcity.com/products/spur-of-the-moments

i turned thurst0n on to my pal Anti last week

That stuff's great, I still have that CDR around somewhere.

mind in ruins. some of the craziest, best, most fucked-up shit i've heard in ages. was initially kinda indifferent to animals, but SCREAMS OF TERROR gave my ass two crispy tacos and a ride to school. plus I'VE BEEN THINKING, which just which yeah. goddam.

RELEASE THE FIRST ONE

That Anti thing rules. What's his deal? I'm hoping the recordings are minimal like this. Drums / guitar / etc could make this sound generic in the hands of the wrong producer.

BTW is this going to be something you can actually buy? Or one of those things like the JT IV record where it disappeared in five seconds. I guess the Galactic Zoo Dossier guy is responsible for the pointlessly limited vinyl releases. So anyone know?

― Pants Perdu (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, July 16, 2010 12:56 AM (19 hours ago) Bookmark

if you need a JT IV, i can probably find you one

his recordings are super minimal. they sound great. he really is the jandek of bass metal. he's a great guy too. my friend mike played drums on his last couple of CDs (he just put out his 46th CD!) and it actually sounds really good. it doesn't take away from the atmosphere or his songs.

i've always wished i had the money and time to put out vinyl of his best stuff. and i still kinda hope that i can get my friend ted who has a label called feeding tube to put something out. ted puts out beautiful vinyl.

his CDs don't have covers or anything and he pretty much just sells them at aboveground records on marthas vineyard. he doesn't play live much. they wouldn't let him play in the battle of the bands there because they said he didn't qualify as a band. he is underappreciated there.

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really been digging Feeding Tube's output lately, please pass it on!

i will for sure!

Ted is actually opening up a store in september in northampton. should be awesome.

http://www.cbcarolinascolumbia.com/agent/agentdetail.asp?CEQ_AgentCode=warrd&utm_source=AgentBanner&utm_medium=Link&utm_campaign=Duane%20Warr

cuz i didn't say it before, thank you scott, from the bottom of my heart.

Hey Drag City's website says 9/21/10 for this. Whooooo!

so ... anybody pick this up yet?

yup. vinyl just out. is magnificent.

Absolutely great album!
Dark and brooding and insane it is; it reminds of stuff like Todd Tamenend Clarke and my beloved Happy Dragon Band, but filtered through a more metalish sensitivity.
Songs like That Deadly Night and Evil Lures are positively deranged.

Talking about late 70's/ early 80's metal, should I get the first Manilla Road album?

The first one is not their best. I don't think it really coalesces for Manilla Road until Crystal Logic, which I think is either the second or third. Just one man's opinion. It's probably worth ten bucks, though.

You should definitely get it. "Crystal Logic" is their best, but ramping up to it with "Metal" and "Invasion" can't hurt.

Man, where can I find more of this Dwarr stuff?

somebody needs to reissue the 1st dwarr LP, starting over, if only so a few more people can hear "screams of terror".

If DC doesn't reissue Starting Over they are a JOKE LABEL and should SHUT DOWN.

i think they are putting it out.

See, I just shamed them into it. Hooray for me!

Just stumbled across Dwarr randomly YouTubing...the first album stuff = amazing. And that 'Screams Of Terror' vid = mint.

Does anyone know if Drag City's vinyl releases come with an MP3 download?

Don't think this one did. At least I didn't find any cards or codes or anything in mine.

when I talked to Douglas at Yoga, he confirmed that yes, he would be doing the first Dwarr with Drag City as well. hopefully the world is ready for it.

Yessssssssss. Very excited.

douglas is my childhood friend, but i just called him 'doug'

"Starting over" to be released next week - yay!

Yup, just snagged it over lunch! Can't wait to dig in.