St John Sessions and NTS Present Grouper

In partnership with Miles Of Smiles and NTS Radio we proudly present Grouper w/ visuals by Paul Clipson & support from Heather Leigh.

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GROUPER

Grouper is a recording and performing project by Liz Harris. She lives and works in Astoria, OR. Following the release of latest album 'Ruins' on Kranky, she presents a new set of songs, ambient sound and field recordings with original films by Paul Clipson.

'Made of Air' film by Paul Clipson - http://vimeo.com/109943175
'Call Across Rooms' - https://soundcloud.com/kranky/grouper-call-across-rooms
Website - http://www.repeatingpattern.com/
Label - http://www.kranky.net/artists/grouper.html

HEATHER LEIGH

The daughter of a coal miner, weaving a trail from West Virginia to Texas and now residing in Scotland, Heather Leigh furthers the vast unexplored reaches of pedal steel guitar. She’s performed and released music since the 1990s as a solo artist and with a wide range of uncompromising collaborators from Jandek to Robbie Yeats of The Dead C and has toured extensively throughout the US, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Her playing is as physical as it is phantom, combining spontaneous compositions with a feel for the full interaction of flesh with hallucinatory power sources. With a rare combination of sensitivity and strength, Leigh’s steel mainlines sanctified slide guitar and deforms it using hypnotic tone-implosions, juggling walls of bleeding amp tone with choral vocal constructs, wrenching single note ascensions and raggedy American Primitive harmonica.

She’s played/performed/released music with Ash Castles On The Ghost Coast, Charalambides, Scorces (a duo with Christina Carter), the Dream/Aktion Unit (a group with Thurston Moore, Paul Flaherty, Chris Corsano and Matt Heyner), Taurpis Tula, Jailbreak (a duo with Chris Corsano) and Jandek, as well as collaborated with Stefan Jaworyzn (as Annihilating Light), Richard Youngs, Blood Stereo, MV & EE, Robbie Yeats of The Dead C, John Olson of Wolf Eyes, Smegma, Jutta Koether, Kommissar Hjuler & Mama Baer and many others.

“All notions of the pedal steel’s laid-back, country harmony are shattered as Leigh extols jagged notes and blocks of electric noise that seem to rail against rock, jazz and other notions of freedom music.” Dusted Magazine

“She is summoning the spirits of the ghost-women of rock ’n’ roll past who were perceived as the sponges of the love-cloaked-violence and guitar-death-gazes of the almighty rocker” Tiny Mix Tapes"