![Other Music on DWARR, Starting Over, the latest record from Drag City / Yoga Records (emphasis mine):
“Drag City and Yoga continue their excavation of the works of Dwarr, a/k/a Duane Warr, a South Carolina native who in the mid-’80s put out a couple of completely unique privately pressed albums. Last year, the two labels collaborated to reissue Animals, Dwarr’s second album from ‘86, which is a mind-blowing exercise in basement psychedelia and Dungeons & Dragons-inspired doom metal. That psychedelic part was most likely accidental, or a byproduct of the man’s supposed drug intake at the time, but that’s beside the point. One of the greatest strengths of Warr’s music is that although the influences can be traced (Hendrix and Black Sabbath, I’m guessing), thanks to his limited means and vivid imagination it is 100% singular. While Starting Over, Dwarr’s 1984 debut, is less heavy than its successor, it still exists in the same fantasy wasteland where Over the Edge and Conan the Barbarian exist side by side. Here, he alternately shreds like Eddie Van Halen on a bum trip and a drunk Steve Hillage, only to mellow out and go into Pink Floyd territory, and then there’s my favorite song on the album, “I’ve Been Thinking,” where Warr does his best Jimi impression, except the treble is turned to 11 and it sounds like a horror film soundtrack. Non-rock, non-metal, non-normal human life, but always triumphant…Dwarr always wins!! (And for the full Dwarr experience, check out this video on YouTube.) [AK]”
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Other Music on DWARR, Starting Over, the latest record from Drag City / Yoga Records (emphasis mine):
“Drag City and Yoga continue their excavation of the works of Dwarr, a/k/a Duane Warr, a South Carolina native who in the mid-’80s put out a couple of completely unique privately pressed albums. Last year, the two labels collaborated to reissue Animals, Dwarr’s second album from ‘86, which is a mind-blowing exercise in basement psychedelia and Dungeons & Dragons-inspired doom metal. That psychedelic part was most likely accidental, or a byproduct of the man’s supposed drug intake at the time, but that’s beside the point. One of the greatest strengths of Warr’s music is that although the influences can be traced (Hendrix and Black Sabbath, I’m guessing), thanks to his limited means and vivid imagination it is 100% singular. While Starting Over, Dwarr’s 1984 debut, is less heavy than its successor, it still exists in the same fantasy wasteland where Over the Edge and Conan the Barbarian exist side by side. Here, he alternately shreds like Eddie Van Halen on a bum trip and a drunk Steve Hillage, only to mellow out and go into Pink Floyd territory, and then there’s my favorite song on the album, “I’ve Been Thinking,” where Warr does his best Jimi impression, except the treble is turned to 11 and it sounds like a horror film soundtrack. Non-rock, non-metal, non-normal human life, but always triumphant…Dwarr always wins!! (And for the full Dwarr experience, check out this video on YouTube.) [AK]”
Purchase at Other Music, Drag City, or itunes
November 10, 2011, 9:35am
