North Head

Lovely Midget is Rachel Shearer, an integral player in the New Zealand underground. Performing with Kiwi bands Angelhead and Queen Meanie Puss during the 1990s, Rachel entrenched her sound in the ears of adventurous stateside record collectors, recording for labels like Flying Nun, Xpressway and Siltbreeze. Since becoming Lovely Midget in 1995, Rachel has created a transcendent world of shivering ambient sounds, distant ruptures and warm washes of analog sheen. Building pieces around aching tube equipment, and delicate strokes of guitar, bass, percussion and vocal hum, Lovely Midget¹s international appeal has far surpassed her meager output. Outside of extremely limited NZ releases, her 1996 U.S. debut was a 10² record on Thurston Moore¹s Ecstatic Peace! label, followed up by the highly heralded Corpus Hermeticum CD and an obscured contribution to a Freedom From cassette. noted and regularly commissioned visual and video artist, Lovely Midget's North Head is an enhanced CD that contains a video of the title track.