Violet Stains Red / Absent And Erotic Lives 1957 pondering quotidien grievances while examining

pondering quotidien grievances while examining the bigger picture

Their poignant melodies and tumbling riffs were so perfect that it was hard to believe they could be improved upon -- and on High in Place

fi fty years later

and jangle-pop

We lived in Dunedin at the near-bottom of the South Island of New Zealand

Violet Stains Red / Absent And Erotic Lives 1957 pondering quotidien grievances while examiningDadamah was a short lived New Zealand underground project active in the early 1990s, centered around Roy Montgomery (also of The Pin Group, Dissolve). Their sound on Violet Stains Red and Absent And Erotic Lives sits in a very particular zone of NZ experimental rock.