Album
Ruins
2014 · Electronic, Folk, World, & Country
7 collectors on Gatefold own this
Ruins is an Electronic album by Grouper, originally released in 2014. On Gatefold: 4 pressings tracked, owned by 7 collectors.
About
With their eerie textures, spare pianos, and whispered vocals, Liz Harris' songs send shivers up your spine, even as they emanate a certain warmth, like a ghost story told by a close friend. Recorded at an artist retreat in Portugal, <i>Ruins</i> is her most accessible release, with spectral odes like "Call Across Rooms" and "Lighthouse" eschewing the looping techniques of previous work for spare arrangements of piano and voice. "Labyrinth" pulls you in with circular piano lines, while Harris' vocals in "Holding" drift by like clouds as samples of a thunderstorm populate the background.
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Tracklist
- 1Made of Metal1:38
- 2Clearing4:41
- 3Call Across Rooms2:59
- 4Labyrinth3:47
- 5Lighthouse5:44
- 6Holofernes1:32
- 7Holding7:56
- 8Made of Air11:24
Sound DNA
- Electronic
- Ambient & Downtempo
- sparse
- melancholic
- nocturnal
From Grouper's Bandcamp:
"Ruins was made in Aljezur, Portugal in 2011 on a residency set up by Galeria Zé dos Bois.
I recorded everything there except the last song, which I did at mother's house in 2004.
Iʼm still surprised by what I wound up. It was the first time Iʼd sat still for a few years; processed a lot of political anger and emotional garbage. Recorded pretty simply, with a portable 4-track,Sony stereo mic and an upright piano. When I wasnʼt recording songs I was hiking several miles to the beach. The path wound through the ruins of several old estates and a small village.
The album is a document. A nod to that daily walk. Failed structures. Living in the remains of love. I left the songs the way they came (microwave beep from when power went out after a storm); I hope that the album bears some resemblance to the place that I was in."
7 collectors on Gatefold own this · 4 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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