GROUPER - ruins LP singer-songwriter boasting the rhythmic flow of

boasting the rhythmic flow of hip hop and the soulful swing of jazz

” It is a recording brought down from the attic

OR the sounds were entirely manipulated

West was recorded and mixed in six days at Lucky Cat Studios in San Francisco

using original source material from the Industrial Records visual archive

GROUPER - ruins LP singer-songwriter boasting the rhythmic flow ofRuins was made in Aljezur, Portugal in 2011 on a residency set up by Galeria Z dos Bois. I recorded everything there except the last song, which I did at mother's house in 2004. Im still surprised by what I wound up with. It was the first time Id sat still for a few years; processed a lot of political anger and emotional garbage. Recorded pretty simply, with a portable 4 track, Sony stereo mic and an upright piano. When I wasnt recording songs I was