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.

Gricer digipack CD TR1 Taut Recordings
released on Monday 28 November 2005

FIRST 50 COPIES INCLUDE A SET OF THREE SMALL PIN BADGES

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As heard on BBC Radio 3's Mixing It
XFM's Flo-Motion
Resonance FM's The Other Rock Show and Mike Barnes' show
BBC Radio Lancashire's On The Wire
Radio Magnetic’s Stuart McHugh’s Fallout
OK Radio Bremen’s Popscene
Loughborough radio’s Alternative Alternative
KPSU’s What’s This Called?

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

They veer between moody trumpet ballads at one extreme and pure sound experiments at the other
BBC RADIO 3'S NEW MUSIC SHOW, MIXING IT

Occupying a no-man’s land between post-rock and the new young jazz thing.  Metronomic… like Reich wound by clockwork
THE WIRE