Grouper 'Violet Replacement

Sen 2005 har hon släppt en rad av LPs, CDRs och kassetter på bolag som Type, Room40 och Yellow Electric. Hon utgår från röst, gitarr och keyboard och lägger sedan på lager efter lager av reverb och distorsion för att skapa sin osannolikt vackra popmusik. Hon drömmer fram låtar som undersöker teman som kärlek och saknad, liv och död. Grouper live är en sällsam upplevelse där lokal, ljud, ljus och framträdande vävs ihop till ett. Vi samlas därför i en cirkel på teatern mörka golv och tar tillsamman iväg på en resa mot tomheten. En av 2011 års intressantaste artister – Grouper, leder vägen.

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Press:
”Harris has a distinctive sound that she pretty much owns. These short LPs, released at the same time and that share an overall aesthetic, sound beamed in from another realm, and they also sound like they could have come from no one else.” – Pitchfork
”One of the most delicate, affecting albums of the year” – Drowned In Sound
”Harris’s ability to keep herself on the periphery without allowing the listener to get a good handle on her is the primary source of tension on the two LPs and, along with her haunting, gorgeous voice, is a factor that sets her apart from an increasingly large pack of atmospheric singer-songwriters that includes James Blake, Glasser and Beach House.” – Dusted
Bio:
Musician/artist Grouper aka Liz Harris unveils a haunting new performance comprised of tape loops, field recordings and submerged atmospherics presented in a set of naturally resonant and specially customised locations.

Grouper’s shimmering compositions exist in their own world, out of time and out of space. She stands out for the emotional resonance and epic reach of her song-writing. A singular and much revered artist, her latest double album A I A, released in April 2011, has been touted as one of the year’s best.

Since 2005 she has released a flow of LPs, CDRs and tapes into the world on labels like Type, Room40 and her own Yellow Electric imprint. Using the barest of instrumentation (voice, guitar and keyboard) and layer upon layer of reverb, feedback and distortion, she dreams up songs that explore metaphysical themes of the self and the universe, of love and loss, life and death. The Wire recently compared to the rural psychedelia/drone odysseys of Flying Saucer Attack, while the pure, haunting quality of her voice brings to mind Julee Cruise.

Grouper’s live shows are rare occurrences and are always in tune with the architecture and acoustics of a space. For this tour she performs a new collection of tape collages derived from a commission for New York’s Issue Project Room. Field recordings, Wurlitzer loops and vocal tracks from her archives are mixed, spliced and processed live from an array of dictaphones and tape players. This is an eerie, melancholic set, in which fragile melodies and submerged textures gradually transform the space before decaying into nothingness.

Datum: 8/3 Tid: 20.00 Rum: Teatern Entré: 80:-