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Grouper is the artist name of Elizabeth (Liz) Harris from Portland, Oregon.
Her debut album, Way Their Crept, was released on the Free Porcupine Society label in 2005. This was followed a year later by ‘Wide’ on the same label. In 2007 she put out a brilliant limited edition LP ‘Cover The Windows And Walls’ (on Root Strata) . Now her third ‘official’ full length album on Type Records is out – charmingly entitled ‘Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill’ .
She has been involved in collaborative releases contributing a track to Xiu Xiu’s ‘Remixed & Covered’ and four tracks to a split release with Inca Ore, but it is her solitary work which is the most transfixing.
Grouper may seem a paradoxical name for a woman who in an interview with Rich Hopkins of Digitalis said: “I like doing things myself, and in my own way, I think because I tend to work slowly and sort of obsessively, which doesn’t always work well involving another person.”
The word “grouper” actually comes from the name of a type of fish found on warm and tropical seas. ‘Garoupa’, in the Russian dialect of the Enchained Forest region of Siberia, and not from the English word group.
Some say that the name grouper is a reference to Harris’ upbringing. She may have been brought up in some kind of compound following a certain philosophy. These compounds are called “groups,” and the people who inhabit them, “groupers.”
Her debut album, Way Their Crept, was released on the Free Porcupine Society label in 2005. This was followed a year later by ‘Wide’ on the same label. In 2007 she put out a brilliant limited edition LP ‘Cover The Windows And Walls’ (on Root Strata) . Now her third ‘official’ full length album on Type Records is out – charmingly entitled ‘Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill’ .
She has been involved in collaborative releases contributing a track to Xiu Xiu’s ‘Remixed & Covered’ and four tracks to a split release with Inca Ore, but it is her solitary work which is the most transfixing.
Grouper may seem a paradoxical name for a woman who in an interview with Rich Hopkins of Digitalis said: “I like doing things myself, and in my own way, I think because I tend to work slowly and sort of obsessively, which doesn’t always work well involving another person.”
The word “grouper” actually comes from the name of a type of fish found on warm and tropical seas. ‘Garoupa’, in the Russian dialect of the Enchained Forest region of Siberia, and not from the English word group.
Some say that the name grouper is a reference to Harris’ upbringing. She may have been brought up in some kind of compound following a certain philosophy. These compounds are called “groups,” and the people who inhabit them, “groupers.”
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SelenaSweety wrote:
just got this Artist's ringtones at www.itsflycell.com. Heavy Water/I'd Rather Be Sleeping is my favorite, love it!
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RogerHayn wrote:
Cat Power who?
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Tehpaco wrote:
Fell in love with her this week, her stuff never hit me so hard O__O
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vihreakuolema wrote:
This music is super-euphoria inducing... I am always enthralled by Liz Harris' genius.
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coeurmachant wrote:
http://crappyindiemusic.blogspot.com/2009/12/grouper-christmas-album-petition.html
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lostclip wrote:
i still can't believe i missed her show last month...
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hesbshields wrote:
hahaha, sorry man!
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rosstifer wrote:
how funny. i got on this shoutbox with the distinct purpose of a marriage proposal. looks like hesb beat me to it.
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hesbshields wrote:
marry me? yes?
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ProzacForRichie wrote:
She's inside
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millicentcory wrote:
You should join this group: http://www.last.fm/group/1%2C000%2C000+Femme+Fatales
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dontdoitjake wrote:
http://www.last.fm/music/Grouper/+images/38966687
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bereteando wrote:
(win x win)² x love = grouper
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flameevans wrote:
Oh wow! I'm a top listener. Suck it bitches.
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DieFaelscher wrote:
liz is love :)
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ARGBDude wrote:
http://www.last.fm/music/Grouper/+images?sort=date
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AnUub1s wrote:
so far perfect, this is how Danger Mouse´s and Lynch´s colaboration should have looked like
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flameevans wrote:
I just can't stop listening to this at the moment.
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surlesmots wrote:
@Krupon lucky!
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labellelabete wrote:
this is exactly what i need.
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My lost record--did you buy it?
2 Nov 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/grouperrepuorg
Selling merch in the dark of a club in Copenhagen meant that my Idea Fire Company record was accidentally sold to someone:www.mimaroglumusicsales.com/..g/ue70detail. …
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Haydari created the Turkish wiki page for Grouper. Friday afternoon
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