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Upgrade & Afterlife (CD)

By: Gastr Del Sol (Artist)
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DISC 1 for Upgrade & Afterlife (CD) Album By Gastr Del Sol (Artist)
1   Our Exquisite Replica Of `Eternity
2   Rebecca Sylvester
3   Sea Incertain, The
4   Hello Spiral
5   Relay, The
6   Crappie Tactics
7   Dry Bones In The Valley (I Saw The Light Come Shining "Round And Round)
 
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Spin (8/96, p.104) - "...offers a drone heaven where orchestras tune up, pianos duet with radiator hiss, and a John Fahey acoustic arrives with violin courtesy of VU associate Tony Conrad.."
Alternative Press (10/96, p.77) - 5 (out of 5) - "...Words and bits of sound are played (with) and collected, manipulated and spliced together...and given new life....Songs emerge from within songs, improvisization and composition overlap, chaos shakes hands with control....they've [Gastr Del Sol] cracked the surface, peeking out to find themselves alone at the top of the world."
Option (9-10/96, pp.107-108) - "...I found myself...left somewhat floored by both the subtlety and the range of the band's vision....These [songs] range from soft jazz-inflected guitar and piano sketches, to collions of roaring flames..."
Melody Maker (8/24/96, p.43) - "...an exhilarating trawl through American freedom spaces....a symphony of non-head directed movement and continent-scale sound-shifts....`smart rock' isn't always a grueling proposition and doesn't always imply standing about in a field reading a book..."

Title Note

Gastr Del Sol includes: David Grubbs, Jim O'Rourke.

Additional personnel includes: Tony Conrad (violin).

This collection of experimental, ambient works finds Gastr Del Sol, at this point consisting of David Grubbs and Jim O'Rourke, assisted by the violinist Tony Conrad and the percussionist John McEntire. "Rebecca Sylvester" is a charming postmodern ballad, and "The Sea Incertain" is an exercise in spare, modernist melody, while "Dry Bones in the Valley" acknowledges the influence of John Fahey, and "Hello Spiral" contrasts its anarchic electronic scratches with more reflective passages.

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