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North Head

by Lovely Midget

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1.
North Head 04:58
2.
Squall 07:27
3.
Fading 03:46
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5.
Raudive Rain 05:55
6.
Swollen Dusk 04:58
7.
Dolphine 03:23

about

"Some of the most beautiful, serene, dreamy ambient noise we've heard in a while." -- Aquarius Records

Lovely Midget is Rachel Shearer, an integral player in the New Zealand underground. Since becoming Lovely Midget in 1995, Shearer has created a transcendent world of shivering ambient sounds, distant ruptures and warm washes of analog sheen.

Shearer's international profile rose in 1997 when her debut 10" was released via Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace! label. A full-length followed on Bruce Russell's Corpus Hermeticum imprint.

On North Head, Shearer builds pieces around aching tube equipment and delicate strokes of guitar, bass, percussion and vocal hum. At times it seems a cross of Elaine Radigue and Francois Bayle with a personal intimacy and the lovingly woven aural tapestries New Zealand has become known for.

North Head brings together two years of recording to reinstate Lovely Midget as a sublime aural architect of a new order. Includes a video for "North Head," directed by Shearer.

credits

released November 4, 2003

Rachel Shearer — Keyboards, guitar, flute, vocals, field recordings, digital processing, video
Sean O'Reilly — Guitar on 4, 6 and 7

Recorded 2001-2003 at Lovely Midget Inn, Auckland, NZ

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