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Up In Her Room presents the first in the Ivan The Tolerable archive reissue series, Autodidact. Originally released on a 10" lathe cut by Ack Ack Ack Records in February 2018, this has now been remastered and repackaged, and will now be available on limited-edition khaki vinyl, with only 250 copies pressed. Here's a bit about the record in Oli Heffernan's aka Ivan The Tolerable own words: "I recorded the bulk of this record over a weekend in January 2018, in the midst of a very minor breakdown that was to last for pretty much the entire year. I was living in a big house all on my own, smoking too much and not really seeing any people. Happy days indeed. It was tracked in the back room of 97 Hambledon Road, Middlesbrough using two questionable microphones, a broken HH 100 amp, my friends' drums and a Tascam DP08 (that wasn't to see the year out, RIP 2009-2018). When I was done, Robbie came round and recorded a ton of violin drones through my amp and I remember feeling like I'd gone into a trance a few times, then Ben recorded his parts at home and sent them over. Mixed and mastered the same night -- I released it myself a month later as a lathe cut 10"and then promptly moved on. I listened to the album for the first time in years to write this sleeve note and I think it is possibly the closest I've ever got to capturing the sound I hear in my head -- I love how grubby and cavernous it sounds, claustrophobic and swirling -- the track 'Autodidact' I have recorded four more times since this version and I've never got that sound back. I'II keep trying."
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UIHR 012LP
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Available on limited-edition white vinyl, only 300 pressed. Includes extended album download. Ivan The Tolerable is the alter ego solo project of Middlesbrough based musical wizard Oli Heffernan. Aside from his solo work as ITT, Oli has played in numerous bands over the years including Year Of Birds, King Champion Sounds with members of the Ex, Detective Instinct, and Shrug, and has collaborated with icons like Mike Watts of the Minutemen, and J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr. On Black Water/Brown Earth, Heff called in the help of his Dutch friends Mees and Elsa in King Champion Sounds again and wrote the album in a long-distance session. The album feels like an excursion in nature, featuring bird song, flowing water, pots and pans percussion, and a genuine feel of wandering about and experiencing the outside world with eyes and ears wide open. It is a band effort too, with organic sounding drums, the characteristic saxophone, and droning synths.
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UIHR 021LP
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Ivan The Tolerable is the alter ego solo project of Middlesbrough based musical wizard Oli Heffernan. Aside from his solo work as ITT, Oli has played in numerous bands over the years including Year Of Birds, King Champion Sounds with members of the Ex, Detective Instinct, and Shrug, and has collaborated with icons like Mike Watts of the Minutemen, and J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr. Ivan The Tolerable started by accident in 2013 when Heffernan recorded a bunch of songs for his band at the time (Year Of Birds). These were a bit too left-field for a speedy garage band, so Oli decided to put them out on tape himself, and hasn't looked back since with releases on Up In Her Room, Stolen Body Records, and Library of the Occult to name just a few. Up In Her Room brings you the next entry from the Ivan The Tolerable archive reissue series, 2019's Wild Nature! Originally released on CD by Ack Ack Ack Records back in 2019, the album has now been remastered and repackaged, and appears on limited-edition orange wax. Here's a bit about the album in Oli's own words: "Wild Nature was originally recorded sporadically during the first half of 2019. It started life in one house, then I moved and it was finished in another. I remember screen-printing the original CD artwork on the sly at my old job during my lunch breaks and hand-assembled a small run of about 50 that are all long gone. I also remember walking around Albert Park early one morning in thick fog with a field recorder to capture the sounds that were then processed to form '23 Minutes Over Albert Park' (condensed to four mins for the reissue due to time constraints). I think this was also the last album I recorded vocals on and also the last one I recorded completely by myself -- all instruments, recording, mixing, mastering and artwork done by me at home."
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