Music News - 'Dimmer Folk Club' Sessions Make It To CD
21 October 2004 - 0 Comments
Dimmer. Purveyors of sweetly hypnotic sounds to sway to. Acclaimed at the recent NZ Music Awards as the country’s most revered rockers of the year when they strolled off with the Tuis for Best Group and Best Rock Album.
They recently proved what a great rock group they can be by unplugging most of their instruments (a Hammond organ sounds a bit too quiet without electricity) to play to a crowd of enthralled punters at Auckland’s Grey Lynn Bowling Club and record a session for National Radio at the Helen Young Studio.
Dimmer found a new musical place in this setting. It helped that the line-up has now evolved from Shayne Carter’s studio kinda-collective into an emphatic seven-piece band. Even more so, these songs got their groove in a way that the very best tunes ought to be able to – whispering their charms softly into your ears.
Now Dimmer has decided to make their point even more emphatically by taking six recordings from those two campfire sessions and put them on a CD to go with that Best Rock Album, You’ve Got To Hear The Music.
Three songs from that already-acclaimed album feature on this new disc in a warmly stripped state. Also present are “Drop You Off”, the shimmering opener to Dimmer’s debut album, along with an amazing 10-minute take on the classic “Seed” – an excursion into as rocking a place as any seven people, all seated onstage, can possibly go. Dimmer also swing into the Straitjacket Fits’ timeless “If I Were You”, a one-off moment that sent shivers down the collective spine of the Bowling Club audience.
Shayne Carter (Straitjacket Fits), Anika Moa, Ned Ngatae (Trinity Roots), Mike Hall (Pluto), Andy Morton (King Kapisi, Feelstyle), Willy Scott (King Kapisi band), Heather Mansfield (Brunettes). All Dimmer. Best rock band. Quiet please. You’ve Got To Hear The Music – the bare it all, listen now version.
Dimmer “You’ve Got To Hear The Music” is released with a special limited edition acoustic CD on 8 November.
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