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Artist:
GASTR DEL SOL
Title:
The Serpentine Similar
Label:
DEXTER'S CIGAR
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.50
Catalog #:
DEX 013CD
Repressed. Reissue of the debut Gastr Del Sol album from 1993, first issued by Teenbeat. A post-Bastro duo at the time, consisting of David Grubbs and Bundy K. Brown, pre-Jim O'Rourke. John McEntire added percussion. Advertised as the "1st ever post-rock LP!"
Artist:
GASTR DEL SOL
Title:
Crookt, Crackt, or Fly
Label:
DRAG CITY
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.50
Catalog #:
DC 043CD
2nd album from 1993 which we never got around to stocking before. Following
The Serpentine Similar
, this was the first Gastr to feature Jim O'Rourke. Written and performed by Dave Grubbs and O'Rourke, with additional percussion from John McEntire and bass clarinet by Gene Coleman.
Artist:
GASTR DEL SOL
Title:
Crookt, Crackt, or Fly
Label:
DRAG CITY
Format:
LP
Price:
$13.50
Catalog #:
DC 043LP
LP version.
Artist:
GASTR DEL SOL
Title:
Upgrade & Afterlife
Label:
DRAG CITY
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.50
Catalog #:
DC 090CD
First full length release in 2 years from the Grubbs/O'Rourke axis. The following people guest appear: Tony Conrad, Gene Coleman, Gunter Muller, John McIntire. John Fahey's 'Dry Bones In The Valley' gets covered. "Their most impressively impressionistic (and expansive) piece ever opens the record ('Our Exquisite Replica of Eternity')."
Artist:
GASTR DEL SOL
Title:
Upgrade & Afterlife
Label:
DRAG CITY
Format:
2LP
Price:
$17.00
Catalog #:
DC 090LP
Repressed for the first time in many years. 2LP version in gatefold.
Artist:
GASTR DEL SOL
Title:
Camoufleur
Label:
DRAG CITY
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.50
Catalog #:
DC 133CD
"This is the latest upgrade of the thing known as Gastr del Sol. And it's also their most musical album. Sometimes it's like an overstuffed musical armchair -- quite comfy, even when lumpy. The contribution of Markus Popp, whose style of digital scratching has made Oval an experimental household name, adds to the density and often provides an echo of Gastr past while the rest of
Camoufleur
paints the future."
Artist:
GASTR DEL SOL
Title:
Camoufleur
Label:
DRAG CITY
Format:
LP
Price:
$13.50
Catalog #:
DC 133LP
2009 repress, LP version. "Sometimes it's like an overstuffed musical armchair -- quite comfy, even when lumpy. The contribution of Markus Popp, whose style of digital scratching has made Oval an experimental household name, adds to the density and often provides an echo of Gastr past while the rest of
Camoufleur
paints the future."
Artist:
GASTR DEL SOL
Title:
The Harp Factory On Lake Street
Label:
TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.50
Catalog #:
TOE 019CD
"Is 90s nostalgia underway yet? If not, this reissue may be just the thing to get it started. In 1994, Chicago is the fountainhead for a bona-fide Scene, in which bands are giving timbre and texture priority over riffs and power chords. To the chagrin of many, the press will label it all 'post-rock.' It's the definitive movement of the decade, and front and center are Gastr Del Sol, comprised of David Grubbs (previously: Squirrel Bait, Bastro) and Jim O'Rourke (subsequently: Wilco, Sonic Youth). Some of their city-mates may shift more units; Gastr, with a relentless drive for reinvention, shift the boundaries of where a band can go. Avant punk, atonal song-styling, musique concrète, delicate piano-guitar interplay, raw electronics and modernist chamber music -- all are fair terrain, traversed with subtlety and finesse. Behind the obligatory horn-rims, Grubbs and O'Rourke have 'vision.' A dozen years later, this overdue reissue of 1994's
The Harp Factory on Lake Street
EP provides the missing piece in Gastr's otherwise available discography. To hear it again is a treat. It's their notorious 'big band' record, and the ten-piece ensemble is a veritable All-Star team of mid-90s Chicagoans, including members of Tortoise, Sea and Cake, Shellac, Dazzling Killmen, Brise Glace and the Vandermark 5; through studio maneuvering courtesy O'Rourke and engineer John McEntire, they blossom into a small-sized orchestra. Remarkably confident in the use of space and dissonance,
Harp Factory
also emphasizes the conceptual 'scrape', the friction between nuance and noise, that plays such a prominent role in Gastr's subsequent
Upgrade and Afterlife
LP. Familiar signposts are still in sight -- O'Rourke's compositional skills, Grubbs' associative, absurdist musings -- but this is definitely their boldest outing. It's a record full of blissful confoundment, one that aptly vivifies the spirit of an era. Gastr del Sol may have lasted a brief five years, but they are to the 1990s what the Magic Band, This Heat and Sonic Youth were to their respective decades: intrepid trailblazers through the backwoods of sound."
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