GROUPER "Way Their Crept" --- CONTACT

To be fair to Jefre his albums generally all sound a bit different, some rougher than others.

this is pleasant

i figure i should dig more into cantu-ledesma at some point, i liked on the echoing green a few years back, especially "a song of summer" which was an incredible shoegaze epic. no idea where to go from there though

saw her play last night -- my first time ever seeing her -- at a sold out theater in portland last night, maybe 150 people total, most everyone seated. while it mostly blended together song to song, i definitely picked out "alien observer", "headache", "living room", and i believe parts of "i'm clean now" and "vanishing point"? she played electric guitar and a mixing board from what I could tell. the visuals were often gorgeous and hypnotic, some unforgettable.

by happenstance i ended up sitting next to some of her friends and she stopped to chat with them just before going onstage, and she introduced herself to me and told me I looked sharp. so i'm good for awhile!

she introduced herself to me and told me I looked sharp. so i'm good for awhile!

whoa, that's awesome! definitely one for the back of the book quote!

i saw grouper once, a few years back in chicago, the athletic association. that was such a lovely night, maybe a slightly larger crowd (200? guessing) but also very intimate, and everyone was so quiet. lovely memories.

yeah it was pin-drop quiet, someone dropped their phone on the floor near the end of the performance and it was like a bomb went off

but even then, i'm sure one of her mics picked up the sound faintly and it softly entered the woozy reverb sound to pleasing effect

I saw her the other night in BK and it was the best I'd ever seen her. I've been trying to find the reworked version she did of "False Horizon" the other night because it blew me away. The only thing i could find is this upload from that same show shot on mini dv but it does the job. truly beautiful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu2NGV1UKxE

starts at 21:08 in case my link loses the timecode

I also saw her there but on Thursday, great show.

someone asked me if helen would tour. i laughed and then became very sad

― flappy bird, Tuesday, September 22, 2015 3:27 PM (seven years ago)

They're touring now! A few dates down the west coast: http://www.groundcontroltouring.com/artists/helen

I live nowhere near but someone taped the first night in Portland last week and put it on D!me, sounds great. A few new songs, so hopefully a new record in the works.

i was at the portland show, it was great, though felt like they oversold tickets at the very small venue. viewing space was shoulder to shoulder packed and there were dozens and dozens of people in the overflow area. nobody in the band spoke a single word or even glanced at the crowd, which is always part of the LH experience. mostly just felt honored to be able to see Helen, felt like spotting a ghost in the daylight.

My last.fm tells me I didn't listen to a single Grouper song last year. Just put Alien Observer on and can sense why: the experience of lockdown is right there in the fabric of the music, like comet tail scintilla, blown back into itself.

After Borges: the pandemic invents its musical precursors.