Artist: VA
Title: Not Given Lightly
Label: Morr
Genre: Indie
Bitrate: 179kbit av.
Time: 02:13:09
Size: 180.93 mb
Rip Date: 2009-03-21
Str Date: 2009-05-08
DISC 1:
1. Lali Puna - I Like Rain (Jean Paul Sartre 4:16
Experience)
2. People Press Play - Kaleidoscope World (The Chills) 4:00
3. Tarwater - Death And The Maiden (Verlains) 3:30
4. It's A Musical - All My Hollowness To You (Tall 2:28
Dwarfs)
5. B. Fleischmann - Not Given Lightly (Chris Knox) 5:01
6. The Go Find - Pink Frost (The Chills) 3:55
7. Guther - Glide (Chris Knox) 3:39
8. The Wooden Birds - Afternoon In Bed (The Bats) 3:15
9. Butcher The Bar - Bee To Honey (Tall Dwarfs) 1:26
10. Sin Fang Bous - I Think I'd Thought I'd Nothing 2:12
Else To Think About (The Chills)
11. Borko - Up In The Sky (Jean Paul Sartre Experience) 4:10
12. Masha Qrella - Pink Frost (The Chills) 4:36
13. Saroos - Prisoner Of A Single Passion (Graeme 4:19
Jefferies)
14. American Analog Set - Anything Could Happen (The 4:12
Clean)
15. Bobby & Blumm - On An Unknown Beach (Peter 3:55
Jefferies)
16. Contriva - Light (Chris Knox) 4:43
17. ISAN - Harmonic Deluxe (Robert Scott) 6:26
18. Electric President - You Forget (David Kilgour) 4:13
DISC 2:
1. Benni Hemm Hemm - Stoffeise 3:23
2. Radical Face - Wandering 3:59
3. Guther - New Science 3:23
4. Sin Fang Bous - Nothings 2:58
5. Seabear - Singing Arc 2:29
6. Butcher The Bar - Snakes 3:17
7. Surf City - Kudos 3:11
8. Electric President - White Noise 4:41
9. It's A Musical - In Case Of Harmony 3:55
10. Seavault - Cornfields 6:01
11. Populous - Zodiac 2:20
12. Saroos - Dubstar 5:10
13. Tarwater - Captain 3:35
14. ISAN - Happy Chord Whore 4:06
15. Bobby & Blumm - Take A Sip 3:14
16. B. Fleischmann - Aldebaran Waltz 7:11
Release Notes:
The full title for this is 'Not Given Lightly: A Tribute To
the Giant Golden Book Of New Zealand's Alternative Music
Scene'.
...Of New Zealand's Alternative Music Scene. Morr Music
presents a 2CD compilation paying tribute to the great,
highly-influential New Zealand indie-pop bands of the 1980s,
whose steadfast DIY aesthetic paved the way internationally
for the future development of all modern indie bands to
follow.
CD1 features cover versions of New Zealand's most beloved
songs from that era by Morr's best current artists, and CD2
features previously-unreleased tracks that look towards the
future of indie-pop. In New Zealand, the archetype of what was
called indie-pop was established.
Labels such as Flying Nun, Xpressway, IMD and Corpus
Hermeticum rose up in response to punk, and bands such as The
Clean, The Chills and Tall Dwarfs helped forge what would be
called the "Dunedin Sound," characterized by jangly guitar,
straight-ahead bass lines and no-nonsense drums.
Because of New Zealand's isolation, new music from the UK and
U.S. only trickled in sometimes years after the fact, and out
of the earnest desire of a passionate few to create an
autonomous Kiwi scene (and the disinterest of overseas major
labels), punk, pop, etc., was born in garages and pressed on
screen-printed 7"s out of ingenuity and necessity. Everyone
knew each other, everyone played in each other's bands, and
everyone was influenced by each other's sound -- simple,
lo-fi, untouched and singular, and completely apart from the
rest of the world.
There was promise in songs like "Not Given Lightly" by
legendary scenester and The Enemy and Toy Love founding
member, Chris Knox or "Pink Frost" by The Chills, and it was
eventually heard by compatriots in the U.S. -- Pavement, Yo La
Tengo and Sonic Youth referred to New Zealand's alternative
music scene directly. In Germany, artists as well as heads of
labels adapted a similar DIY model. Markus Acher, who is part
of this compilation with Lali Puna, played together with
Graeme Jefferies (Nocturnal Projections, This Kind Of
Punishment, The Cakekitchen). Suddenly, lo-fi was everywhere.
The Morr Music label would not have been thinkable without
this DIY-idea. Not Given Lightly features modern-day
reinterpretations of seminal tracks from Jean Paul Sartre
Experience, The Chills, The Verlaines, Tall Dwarfs, Chris
Knox, The Bats, Graeme Jeffries, The Clean, Peter Jefferies,
Robert Scott, and David Kilgour, played by Lali Puna, People
Press Play, Tarwater, It's A Musical, B.Fleischmann, The Go
Find, Guther, The Wooden Birds, Butcher The Bar, Sin Fang
Bous, Borko, Masha Qrella, Saroos, American Analog Set, Bobby
& Blumm, Contriva, Isan, and Electric President. Other artists
include: Benni Hemm Hemm, Radical Face, Seabear, Surf City,
Seafault, and Populous.