Grouper - Shade LP the narrative of the record

the narrative of the record told me exactly what to do

originally released on Tom Ellard's (Severed Heads) Dogfood Production System in 1981

Written in response to the death of a friend from an overdose

but upon release it was this summation of what was unfolding

in that case the transfiguration of non-musical elements into musical ones is obvious

Grouper - Shade LP the narrative of the recordLP version. "The 12th full length by Pacific Northwest artist Liz Harris aka Grouper is a collection of songs spanning fifteen years. She characterizes Shade as an album about respite, and the coast, poetically and literally. How one frames themselves in a landscape, how in turn it frames themselves; memories and experiences carried forward mapping a connection to place 'an ode to blue what lives in shade.' Songs touch on loss, flaws, hiding places,