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Olympia WA, United States (2001 – present)
Growing evolved out of two bands, Joe Denardo from Black Man White Man Dead Man and Kevin Doria from 1000 A.D., in Olympia, WA in the fall of 2001.
Joe Denardo moved from Chicago to Olympia and helped operate the Thin The Herd label with Zack Carlson, which released early material from Vaz and Total Shutdown. Eryn Ross joined to make Growing a trio. Moving from hardcore towards something slower and more expansive the band played around its hometown and up and down the West Coast of the United States. The first Growing release was a 7-inch single on the Nail in the Coffin label.
Growing played in a variety of settings and contexts, from art gallery to hardcore all-ages shows. The group has arranged quadraphonic sound installations and lugged stacks onto a stage. Growing have made soundtracks for videos (most recently a project for continuous two channel video and multichannel sound installation with Lisa Darms) and often play accompanied by Denardo’s photographs. Growing self-released a number of cassettes of music.
After a tip from Paul Dickow of Strategy, who played a show with Growing and was struck by their quadraphonic sound environment, Kranky began the process of releasing the debut Growing album in spring 2003. The Sky’s Run Into the Sea came out in August 2003. As Denardo described the recording process, “We recorded the record with a friend, so the atmosphere was very laid back and cheap, this was long before Kranky decided to put it out. It took place over three months over three months, but mostly because of equipment failure. Since it was winter it rained a lot.”
Joe Denardo moved from Chicago to Olympia and helped operate the Thin The Herd label with Zack Carlson, which released early material from Vaz and Total Shutdown. Eryn Ross joined to make Growing a trio. Moving from hardcore towards something slower and more expansive the band played around its hometown and up and down the West Coast of the United States. The first Growing release was a 7-inch single on the Nail in the Coffin label.
Growing played in a variety of settings and contexts, from art gallery to hardcore all-ages shows. The group has arranged quadraphonic sound installations and lugged stacks onto a stage. Growing have made soundtracks for videos (most recently a project for continuous two channel video and multichannel sound installation with Lisa Darms) and often play accompanied by Denardo’s photographs. Growing self-released a number of cassettes of music.
After a tip from Paul Dickow of Strategy, who played a show with Growing and was struck by their quadraphonic sound environment, Kranky began the process of releasing the debut Growing album in spring 2003. The Sky’s Run Into the Sea came out in August 2003. As Denardo described the recording process, “We recorded the record with a friend, so the atmosphere was very laid back and cheap, this was long before Kranky decided to put it out. It took place over three months over three months, but mostly because of equipment failure. Since it was winter it rained a lot.”
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SssSpchMpdmnts wrote:
This band obviously has nothing to do with Robin Williams movie "Jack"
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Alec_Trevelyan wrote:
I bought "Live". It is beautiful.
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Goomba4001 wrote:
PUMPS! just doesn't have enough... atmosphere for me. Even their more rhythmic (All The Way) and dissonant albums (Vision Swim) still sounded cool. PUMPS! sounds like it's just trying to sound "silly" like Black Dice, and it's not as interesting sonically. Drum machines, vocal samples, tremolo guitars... you can find those anywhere.
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margotkidder wrote:
All The Way is awesome! you fools, Growing are consistently great, they never just make a record for the sake of it, the change in direction on PUMPS! is drastic sure, but who's to say its any worse than Harmony...? they're such a different prospect now, it's fruitless to say which period is better/worse. just enjoy it!
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IcyCoughs wrote:
Well it's true, they're kinda sucking right now
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n0umena wrote:
i really enjoy color wheel and vision swim as well. not sure what they were thinking with PUMPS and all the way.
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NINlife wrote:
Still have to say The Sky's Run Into the Sea and The Soul Of The Rainbow And The Harmony Of Light are their best albums.
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dirtypheasants wrote:
dark folk / apocalyptic / ambient = http://www.last.fm/music/Tabernaclez
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batorgil wrote:
oh its still growing
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kevinasindoom wrote:
can't we all grow up and admit that growing and black dice are both great? no, no, then we couldn't have meaningless arguments with people we'll never meet about things that don't matter. things like this post for instance.
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AnCoconuts wrote:
gods.
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AdvertS wrote:
sides C&D of Color Wheel = best Growing work ever.
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Albert_Transom wrote:
damn that black dice song is hard
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StreetStereo wrote:
im excited this thursday http://vtorova.blogspot.com/
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Ales_KoZoBoLiX wrote:
just heard your work on the VBS documentary - Aokigahara Suicide Forest... amazing soundtrack for it (great documentary too) .. great stuff
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cesper wrote:
this music sounds totally schizophrenic. not sure if I am hating it or liking it.
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bawsism wrote:
latest Growing, sadly to say, brutally copying BlackDice soundscape. They were much better in their beginnings. [2]
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Koalateeh wrote:
yeah, they bit it pretty hard sadly
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obsessed_nl wrote:
I share Poghh's confusion. I recently overheard someone refer to Growing as a Fuck Buttons rip-off and I was like "wait, what?"
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BertEngle wrote:
It's all cool for 7 minutes and then shit gets nuts.
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