On Repeat Tapes ORR1 Et At It Archives

When they formed in 2001, Et At It - the trio of Fiona Griffin (guitar), Amelia Saddington (guitar) and Franke Vogl (bass) - may have seemed like a simple reconfiguration of the recently-dissolved RaRaFre+Am. But it would soon become clear that,although the two bands shared members, a near-total lack of drums and a yen for syllabic play, Et At It was a unit all its own. And, in short order, they would become easily one of the most exciting groups operating in D.C.. Over a brief, three year run, Et At It produced a small but rich body of work that extends the spiky chamber music Saddington and Vogl had been developing, but transforms it into something more intimate, sensual and lovingly oblique.