Drekka
Collected Works, Vol. 1 (2cd)
1996. Drekka produces its first fruits, two very differenty cassettes entitled Grieve (in august) and windowframe EP/ Hermitage one EP (in December. The first captures the grief of loss, the hope of love and the sounds of a vast empty New England house. The second captures a cramped, but cozy apartment and the first Chicago winter. 1996-2009: Drekka has tours extensively in Europe as well as the US (with like-minded artists such as Jessica Bailiff, Iditarod, In Gowan Ring, Annelies Monseré, Rivulets, Stone Breath, Vollmar, and releases a bunch of items on Morc, Bluesanct, Digitalis Industries, and has comp tracks on a.o. Secret Eye, Drag City...Anderson also runs Bluesanct, responsible for releases by Black Forest/Black Sea, Boduf Songs, Cindytalk, Iditarod, In Gowan Ring, Low, Pantaleimon and many more. 2009. 13 winters later, Morc Records out of Gent, Belgium, issues a 2CD set entitled Drekka - "Someday I will be called upon regarding matters of tone - Collected Works - Volume One", containing both cassettes in their entirety, plus all extant DREKKA recordings from 1996... This 2CD is a one-time pressing, and comes in gorgeous cardboard packaging, including a 24 page booklet, handbound by Mr. Drekka himself.