Artist : Grouper / Inca Ore
Title : Split
Genre : Psychedelic Rock
Year : 2008
Date : 01/22/2009
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 11
Label : IOG
Source : Vinyl
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 31:58 min
Size : 40,9 MB
Tracklist:
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01.Inca Ore - Churpa Champurrado 02:05
02.Inca Ore - Baby Tiger I Went Far Away 01:28
03.Inca Ore - Chipiturca Eva Enmolada 01:06
04.Inca Ore - Michael, I Will Meet You 02:34
At The End Of Time
05.Inca Ore - Vista Maria 03:13
06.Inca Ore - Valley Of Sherbert 05:23
Cathedrals
07.Inca Ore - Song To The Sea 01:04
08.Grouper - Little Gray Cat 04:28
09.Grouper - Poison Tree 03:17
10.Grouper - Fallow 04:07
11.Grouper - A Light Change 03:13
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31:58 min
Limited edition vinyl reissue of Liz Harris & Eva Inca Ore's long out of print split cassette, pressed at RTI
and package in a lovely screenprinted sleeve.
From Boomkat:
The music on this split release arrives remastered after its initial release via C40 cassette a year or so
ago. Likeminded souls Eva Saelens (inca Ore) and Liz Harris (Grouper) are in brilliant form on these
recordings, so it's great to hear them in a cleaned up format - though of course with these two, it's fairly
difficult to tell where the muddy cassette hiss ends and the foggy, dusty old recordings begin. It seems as
though Acuarela have struck up a decent balance between the characterful muck of the original recordings
and the cleanliness inherent to a digital reissue, and the vaporous melancholy of Inca Ore on tracks like
'Chipiturca Eva Emmolada' and 'Michael I Will Meet You At The End Of Time' sounds marvellously
intangible, each muffled electric keystroke and ghostly vocal annunciation rendered in a morose and
ethereal haze. The Grouper tracks are a little harder to pin down, sounding a little less approachable than
recent form has dictated: 'Little Gray Cat' is taut with spooky harmony and 'Poison Tree' is a disembodied
moan. By the time we get to 'Fallow', Harris starts to come out of the shadows, blasting out a beacon of
drone before withdrawing into the cloaked freeform melodies of 'A Light Change.' CD split releases seldom
work out quite so well as vinyl or CD: there's no easy dividing line between the two artists - no side A, or
side B - so instead there's always a possibility of disjointedness. These two artists complement each other
brilliantly however, and this always feels resolutely like a 'proper' album. Highly Recommended.