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nawgh

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about

. . . waste the earth . . . began with Gavin Shaw & Alan Starrett (now of The Puddle) jamming on guitar & bass in the Super 8 warehouse in Dunedin in the early 90s. Jeff Mitchell joined on drums. One night they headed down to Dunedin’s legendary Empire Hotel, where the poster said Horodroby X, Placebo DeNiro, Waste the Earth. They claimed the last name name and jumped on stage.

Because the band had many different drummers, most of whom were guitarists, Alan led from the bass in a melodic and rhythmic fashion. For a while they did have a "real" drummer-"Bunny" Steve Deans from Dimmer. They toured the West Coast (of the South Island of New Zealand) with Nimrod Diabolique in a friend’s new Peugeot station wagon, which they almost lost, along with their lives, sliding out of control with a jack-knifing trailer of band gear while driving down the Otira Gorge. Metal enthusiasts came to their shows, expecting metal from the name. And leaving confused.

ln 1994 they recorded at Broken Ear with Dale Cotton. A lot of friends joined in on various woodwind and brass instruments. Alan gathered sound effects from the Waitati River, the Maritime Museum, St. John Ambulance and the Otago Pigeon Club and from banging on bedframes in a cellar.

Alan spent more money and time on failed attempts to fix up a few little things in the recordings than was spent on recording the album. One of these things was the ending of ‘pigmot’ which originally had a bit from an obscure film with Brooke Shields where a calliope drives into a swamp. Sadly the end was clipped and the film never re-found.

That Mayan prediction about 21 December 2012 got a bit lost in translation. What the Mayan's actually foresaw was that an album by . . . waste the earth . . . would finally be released on that date. The Mayan phrase for 'waste the earth' was translated by Spanish scholars to 'perder la tierra' which became 'devastate the land' when translated to English. This was misinterpreted to mean the earth would be destroyed.

The album “nawgh” is a time capsule into the history of underground Dunedin nearly 20 years ago. There’s lurching guitar squall rock tracing links to the 3D’s but there’s also proggy funk, string sections and associated oddness. All sounding like nothing of this earth, but instead of an alternative earth where Captain Beefheart’s Magic Band is jamming King Crimson and Jefferson Airplane out-takes.

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released December 21, 2012

Alan Starrett : vocals , bass, viola, cello, farfisa, samples & guitar (5)
Gavin Shaw : vocals, guitars & percussion (11 & 13)
Chris Heazlewood : drums. Kerensa Stevens : vocals.
Paul Redican : trumpet. Nick Prosser: clarinet.
Dale Cotton : engineering, mixing supervisor & drums (4 & 12)
Emily Buttle : ghosted vocals (4)
B Deadman (Hoffman) 1969 V8 Thunderbird (9)

. . . waste the earth . . . would also like to thank
Bunny & Lou, Rebecca V C, Nigel Bunn, Stefan Jordan, Steven Coe, Celia Petal, Horodroby X, Sean O'Reilly, Geoff Noller, Forbes Williams, Heath Te Au, Tenzin Mullin, Adrienne Carthew, Angela Lee & Jacqui Keiller.

Recorded at Dale Cottons' Broken Ear in mid 1994, except trk 10 at King Loser HQ Princes St. Dunedin. Mixed & produced by . . . waste the earth . . . 1994.

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