Remastered reissue of the 1990 masterpiece by legendary New Zealand band T
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ell. Includes a beautiful 20-page booklet.
Chris Knox and Alec Bathgate have made music together since 1977, as founding members of one of New
Zealand's first punk bands called The Enemy. They then formed the band Toy Love in 1979, which signed
to WEA, had a few charting singles, and then broke up. In 1981 Chris and Alec returned as the Tall Dwarfs.
Chris Knox purchased a TEAC 4 track and from there The Tall Dwarfs became pioneers of lo-fi recording.
"We would listen to the Tall Dwarfs [legendary N.Z. Flying Nun band] and we'd think, 'Gosh, these guys are
recording stuff on four-track, it sounds totally hi-fi.' We'd listen to The Beatles and The Beach Boys and
think, 'These guys recorded this on four-track, it sounds totally hi-fi.' We said to ourselves, 'We have a four-
track, it doesn't sound so hi-fi, but it's something to shoot for.' So we decided that these recordings that we
were making weren't just us fucking around, they were albums."
- from a 1998 interview with Robert Schneider of The Apples (in Stereo) / producer Neutral Milk Hotel & The Olivia Tremor Control
Hypnotic tape-loop rhythm tracks & brilliant songwriting with lyrics that range from the political - "Sign the
Dotted Line", to the nature of human existance - "Bodies".
* 1500 word feature in Magnet, as well as features in Signal to Noise & the Chicago Reader.
* Upcoming tour of sold-out shows with the temporarily reunited The Olivia Tremor Control.
* Press and Radio is being taken care of by promotion company Team Clermont.
cloud recordings
box 821 athens, GA
30603
www.cloudrecordings.com
cloud@cloudrecordings.com
Tall Dwarfs
“Weeville”
Release Date
: October 25, 2005
Label
: Cloud Recordings
Catalog #
: CLD 006
Format
: CD
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