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From the 17 mars, 2008 post on this site.

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Monday, March 17, 2008

Dolomite...
Apologies for the unannounced week long break from the blog. I hadn’t planned on disappearing for that long, but it didn’t seem like there was much going on anyway so I figured it would be a good time to do it. I want to try and avoid that “burned out” feeling if all possible. On top of that I had a bit of a hard drive problem which took some time to sort out. All is well now though and I will hopefully have a few updates for the week ahead.

Dolomite was an experimental/noise-rock group from Chicago during the early to mid-nineties. The group featured members Neil Rosario (vocals/guitar), Rian Murphy (vocals/drums), Doug DeMers (bass), and John Whitney (vocals/guitar). Some might recognize the name Rian Murphy due to his association with Will Oldham and his session/production work with label Drag City. However, Dolomite was way before any of that. The band was originally a trio when they released their first single “Tarantula”, which I think came out through Fiasco Records. The same label would put out their first album …Of the Angels, clocking in at whopping 25 minutes that presented the band at their noisiest stages. Full of wandering noodling and random spurts of tortured feedback, it’s definitely a product of its surroundings and is unsurprisingly partly produced by Steve Albini.

Thrill Jockey picked up the band after the release of …Of the Angels and it was followed up by the release of an EP titled The Gift Horse Acetate in 1994 that is pretty much a middle ground between where they started and where they ended up. The bands second full-length Easter Someday was released in 1995 through Thrill Jockey. It’s an interesting turn in sound compared to their earlier recordings, and even what’s found on the EP preceding it. Easter Someday is a an almost completely scaled back affair when looking back on their noisier beginnings and in fact reveals a much folksier and blues influenced version of the band. The Thrill Jockey site even dubs it their “Americana” record, which seems appropriate. It’s an interesting and quite good album that if it were released today would probably have a completely different and possibly larger reception than it did when it originally came out.

I’ve provided a full album upload to the bands first semi-full-length Of the Angels. It’s a bit harder to track down the bands other two releases

....Of the Angels:Dolomite - ...Of the Angels (full album)

The Gift Horse Acetate:Dolomite - This Future Conditional [MP3]

Easter Someday:Dolomite - Don't Toss Us Away [MP3]After Dolomite split up in the 1995, Rian Murphy went on to form Chestnut Station and as previously mentioned done work with Will Oldham. He does session/production work with Drag City as far as I know these days. Neil Rosario spent a brief amount of time in Red Red Meat before forming his own band Fifteen Couples however the band never released anything. Rosario later formed The National Trust that also featured fellow Dolomite member Doug DeMers and former Zoom member Mark Henning. John Whitney has since gone on to record a number of solo albums and also played with Murphy’s Chestnut Station.

For anyone looking to pick up Dolomite albums, most of them can be had over at Amazon for fairly cheap, however used. Definitely pick these up if the tunes above peak some interest.

Funny - they don't mention Whitney's best work of his career in the General Strikes.