Let's Hide Under The House Until They've Gone

by Peter Wright

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	1.	Let's Hide Under The House Until They've Gone 12:45
	2.	Evil Earth Hum 05:31
	3.	The Buried Bones Of Rūaumoko 06:42
	4.	Somewhere Between Forest And Sky 11:41
	5.	Endless Slipping Away 07:19

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An album initially inspired by recordings made with an old Diplomat bass guitar gathering dust in a cupboard, which seemed to tie in nicely with the name of the label that this record was destined to be issued on - Basses Frequences.

Ultimately, these recordings have come to be inextricably connected to the series of violent earthquakes that shook the Canterbury region in 2010-2011, partly due to the somewhat uncanny timing of events surrounding the recordings.

I had posted the finished master to France less than 12 hours before the first and largest of 1000s of earthquakes hit the region on September 4 2010. With aftershocks from that event rattling our nerves daily, I took this as a cue for naming the album and the tracks within, following the bass theme into the seismic.

5 months later, on 22 February 2011, I received the test pressings to sign off. My intention that day had been to make a trip into the heart of the city to get some posters printed for a forthcoming event, but instead I chose to stay home to listen to the record over lunch. I was nearing the end of side 2 at the moment the huge 6.3 quake hit just 2km to the west of Lyttelton, where I was located. In 15 devastating seconds it destroyed lives and infrastructure, rendering a massive part of the city uninhabitable.

The record & turntable survived the shake, despite being covered in debris from the shelves in my office, but I never did finish listening to it. Our house was uninhabitable for 6 months, we spent the winter living in a caravan. The eventual release of this album was almost lost in the noise of the continuing aftershocks.

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released March 15, 2011

Recordings by Peter Wright.
Guitars, bass, mandolin, clarinet, effects.
Recorded, edited and mixed at Ōhinehou, Aotearoa, July-September 2010.

Limited edition LP issued on Basses Frequences, 2011.

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Peter Wright Lyttelton, New Zealand

Est. 1969. Specialists in layered fragments of guitar, environmental recordings and electronic effects.

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