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GDR 003EP
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"Working around their core unit of Afonso Simoes (drums), Guilherme Goncalves (electric guitar) and Nelson Gomes (synthesizers), here they find themselves cooperating for the first time with the wonderfully psychedelically vigorous bass playing of Rui Damaso (part of the legendary Loosers) and the topographically globetrotting ways of wayward adventurer conga orchestrator Jerry the Cat (formerly a part of Funkadelic/ Parliament and C.J. & Co touring bands; and later performed on records of Carl Craig, Recloose, Moodymann, Theo Parrish, and many others), both now members of the band. On Broda they're joined by Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance, Comets On Fire, ETC!), truly one of the most powerful forces in US guitar soul in recent decades, and as terrific a six-string player as one of likely to find on record and onstage in this day and age, wherever that might be. Broda careers through in three passages of positively organized jamming. The fruits of a week's very intense work on freedom and democracy in the collective artistic gesture revealed in only the slightest of documentarian restraints, so as to excuse us into peeking into this cosmology of friendship and externalization of the luminous."
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GDR 001CD
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This is the debut full-length release by Gala Drop (Nelson Gomes, Tiago Miranda and Afonso Simões), comprised of three musicians and activists from Lisbon, Portugal who have been able to understand, revolutionize and mobilize towards the paths of the unknown, and then onto new avenues of artistic creation. Their self-titled record is a perfectly finished, well-conceived, mature work which unites aesthetic fields, rituals and practices that were previously distant from each other. Synthesizer orchestras, German Kraut and kosmische musik, the keyboard hell of French unit Heldon, psych/free percussive tribalism, a deep understanding of decades of dance music, Jamaica's dub processing techniques, an extraordinary sensibility for sound resources and additional mixing, and finally, the mastering skills of Rafael Toral -- all of these are ingredients that make Gala Drop completely unique. The metrics of the groove and backbeat in the drum work of Afonso Simões and Tiago Miranda's percussion, and the ululating understanding of the synthesizer and keyboard phrases reveal a completely familiar yet alien alternate universe of space-y sound that is too good to be just druggy. This record is a document, a revelatory text where new trajectories are mapped and where the possibilities of stylistic exploration are endless. Utterly zoned-out keyboard and dub astral projection through new jungles of sound -- you have been initiated.
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