Grouper — Shade 1967 Fatoumata Diawara

Fatoumata Diawara

Across the album

The 12th full-length by Pacific Northwest artist Liz Harris aka Grouper

unconventional singing and extended vocal techniques free from lyrics - like the throat singing on "In the Cave

and Ghostface Killah

Grouper — Shade 1967 Fatoumata DiawaraThe 12th full length by Pacific Northwest artist Liz Harris aka Grouper, is a collection of songs spanning fifteen years. She characterizes Shade as an album about respite, and the coast, poetically and literally. How one frames themselves in a landscape, how in turn it frames themselves; memories and experiences carried forward mapping a connection to place "an ode to blue what lives in shade." Songs touch on loss, flaws, hiding places, love. Deep