Tu Fawning is the new project of Joe Haege and Corrina Repp. Both Haege and Repp have been playing in Portland and abroad for many years now. However, a mutual desire to achieve something outside the bounds of their other projects, 31knots (Haege) and Corrina Repp (Repp), lead both of them to begin collaboration on each other's albums last year. One look at the liner notes finds Haege all over Corrina Repp's 2006 Caldo Verde release, The Absent and The Distant. Then the roles reverse as Repp appeared on 31knots' EP:Polemics (2006, Polyvinyl)and The Days and Nights Of Everything Anywhere (Polyvinyl, 2006).
Haege has also served as Repp's backing "band" for tours they have done with Mark Kozelek and Norfolk and Western, playing drums, piano, samples and singing. This is truly when the ideas for what would become Tu Fawning began to take shape. As Corrina began to expand her songwriting abilities at a lightning pace, by way of writing and performing songs on piano as well as guitar, she also began to challenge/enjoy herself by learning to play drums.
Now with Haege and Repp fully realzing their pallette of piano,drums, percussion, guitar, vocals and samples, mutually and individually, they are finally able to tell the types of stories they have always wanted to, both lyrically and musically.
The end result is definitely a hybrid of their own individual sounds coming together, but it definitely feels and sounds so natural, as well as creating something more than the sum of it’s parts. Its as if the frantic nature of 31knots has caught its breath and Corrina Repp has found herself finally uninhibited to sing in front of some antiquated tribal music of hymns and ballads.
WONDERFUL NEWS!! We have added two new members, Liza Rietz and Toussaint Perrault. With their arrival they bring strings, horns, their voices as well as their sweetness. Man do we feel lucky.
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What happened to the other song? :(. I hope that, if you do higher quality versions of the two songs, that you make available the 2 demo versions that I've fallen in love with...
Hey guys! You probably don't remember, but I met you at THE NOTE here in Chicago a year or so ago. I'm good friends with TIM LOTESTO. He just gave me your new E.P. Fuck. I love it. It's amazing. My girlfriend is all about it as well, as I knew she would be. Right up our alley. Hope you're well. Next time I'm in the area I'll look you up. Or I won't. But I'll definitely think about it. Come to Chicago and play! If you need a show, (which I'm sure you don't) I can help. But you guys all have labels and shit. Whatever. I'm gonna invite you out to play, anyway. Cheers!
