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Gricer (slang): an individual with specialist knowledge
Gricer focuses on sounds, rhythm and tempo, and inhabits the spaces in-between, bypassing genres, and dodging clichés. The 12 compositions on this debut, self-titled album create their own dark dynamic through a combination of rock minimalism, austere near-ballads, improvisation, pure sound, and bold use of space.
Gricer is David Maleed: composer, electric guitars, Hammond B3 organ, glockenspiel, environmental sounds, clapping, with Subs Subassa: bass guitar, electronic tone; Dylan Howe: drums; Jay Phelps: trumpet, and Jenny Adejayan: cello.
Recorded at Westside, The Premises and Eastcote studios in London 2004/2005.
Engineer: Philip Bagenal.
Tracklist
- Slow
- Staccato
- Taut
- Trumpet
- Folk
- Land
- Tiles
- Beware of Death
- Tonic
- Skin and Bone
- Semiconductor Archive or Longtone
- The Weight of the Well-Known Name
Meticulous attention to fluid sonic detail
THE WIRE
Outstanding and ever intriguing
BBC RADIO 3’S MAX REINHARDT, LATE JUNCTION
They veer between moody trumpet ballads at one extreme and pure sound experiments at the other
BBC RADIO 3'S ROBERT SANDALL, MIXING IT
I've been plodding through millions of same old soul destroying CDs from rock bands all day and at 2am this saved my sanity... it's wonderful
THE ORGAN
Gricer digipack CD TR1 Taut Recordings |
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As heard on
BBC 6 Music’s Freak Zone and Freakier Zone
BBC 6 Music’s 6 Music Recommends
BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction
BBC Radio 3's Mixing It
BBC Radio Lancashire's On The Wire
BBC Radio Foyel’s Caschlár: A World of Music
WNUR Chicago The Third Eye
XFM's Flo-Motion
Resonance FM's The Other Rock Show
OK Radio Bremen’s Popscene
Loughborough radio’s Alternative Alternative