HR170 - Lord Litter - Litter's Reel All Itty - C60 — 1990
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Side AAAAAAAAAAAA:
FaktorX Excerpt From A Harsh Reality Pleasin’ Lies Love Song The Soft Synthed Duck Thank You For The Roses Robertism The Easter Bunny Another Reality |
Side BBBBBBBBBBBB:
Open Up The Gates Time Shift a) The Interview b) Classical Training c) The Flight d) Three e) The Road We Went The Happy Snail Walking Through the Fallout … Some Kind Of Explanation? Bonus CDR tracks: A Real Groovy Black Night The Return Of The Magnificent Space Captain |
Review by Jerry Kranitz
Berlin based Jörg Dittmar, known to the homemade music underground as Lord Litter, was a tireless and enthusiastic promoter of underground music. A talented and imaginative musician and songwriter, Lord Litter also hosted radio shows that championed underground and homemade artists around the globe and broadcast continuously from 1987 until his passing in 2024.
Litter’s Reel All Itty is a collection of instrumentals, vocal numbers, and a tasty mix of rock and experimental fun. The set is chock full of variety. After a brief cacophony of revving engines and space effects, we launch into the heavy surf rocking instrumental ‘Excerpt From A Harsh Reality’. ‘Pleasin’ Lies’ is a pub rock stomper and one of Litter’s trademark rock songs with clever lyrics. ‘Love Song’ is a pleasant, folky, acoustic guitar song. ‘The Soft Synthed Duck’ is a quirkily rhythmic and jazzy-spacey instrumental. ‘Thank You For The Roses’ is like Captain Beefheart meets lo-fi Delta blues. ‘Robertism’ is a quirkily rhythmic instrumental that’s like a cross between The Police and Robert Fripp’s League of Gentlemen (maybe that’s the reference in the song title?). ‘The Easter Bunny’ is a hysterically good fun and twisted pub rocker and a great singalong tune. ‘Another Reality’ is a hip-shaking instrumental with ripping psychy guitar licks.
And on we go with more fun songs and instrumentals. ‘Time Shift’ is very different, churning out 17 minutes of tape dragged (and drugged) manipulation, buzzing electrodes and other weirded out effects, ethereal synth lines, soundscapes, random melodies, noise-psych guitar, and an overall spaced out collage atmosphere. Litter winds this epic track down with a dreamy folk-psych vocal song.
In 2000, Harsh Reality reissued Litter’s Reel All Itty on CDR with two bonus tracks that were collaborations between Lord Litter and Harsh Reality label honcho Chris Phinney. One of them, ‘The Return Of The Magnificent Space Captain’ is a saucy, grungy bit of space-blues and my favorite of the set.
Berlin based Jörg Dittmar, known to the homemade music underground as Lord Litter, was a tireless and enthusiastic promoter of underground music. A talented and imaginative musician and songwriter, Lord Litter also hosted radio shows that championed underground and homemade artists around the globe and broadcast continuously from 1987 until his passing in 2024.
Litter’s Reel All Itty is a collection of instrumentals, vocal numbers, and a tasty mix of rock and experimental fun. The set is chock full of variety. After a brief cacophony of revving engines and space effects, we launch into the heavy surf rocking instrumental ‘Excerpt From A Harsh Reality’. ‘Pleasin’ Lies’ is a pub rock stomper and one of Litter’s trademark rock songs with clever lyrics. ‘Love Song’ is a pleasant, folky, acoustic guitar song. ‘The Soft Synthed Duck’ is a quirkily rhythmic and jazzy-spacey instrumental. ‘Thank You For The Roses’ is like Captain Beefheart meets lo-fi Delta blues. ‘Robertism’ is a quirkily rhythmic instrumental that’s like a cross between The Police and Robert Fripp’s League of Gentlemen (maybe that’s the reference in the song title?). ‘The Easter Bunny’ is a hysterically good fun and twisted pub rocker and a great singalong tune. ‘Another Reality’ is a hip-shaking instrumental with ripping psychy guitar licks.
And on we go with more fun songs and instrumentals. ‘Time Shift’ is very different, churning out 17 minutes of tape dragged (and drugged) manipulation, buzzing electrodes and other weirded out effects, ethereal synth lines, soundscapes, random melodies, noise-psych guitar, and an overall spaced out collage atmosphere. Litter winds this epic track down with a dreamy folk-psych vocal song.
In 2000, Harsh Reality reissued Litter’s Reel All Itty on CDR with two bonus tracks that were collaborations between Lord Litter and Harsh Reality label honcho Chris Phinney. One of them, ‘The Return Of The Magnificent Space Captain’ is a saucy, grungy bit of space-blues and my favorite of the set.
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