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^ Really enjoyed Five Suns but that's all I've heard. Although quite abstract and experimental, they somehow sound unmistakably English to my ears? Traces of Crimson, Magma and Univers Zero in places.
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Posted: September 11 2012 at 05:44
^If you prefer the more quiet first six minutes you should start with Elixir, if you prefer the complex rockin' four last minutes maybe Black Oni and if you thought it made a flawess whole I'd reccomend my own favorite Five Suns
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Posted: September 11 2012 at 05:51
Five Suns, Black Oni, and Elixirs are all great, in different ways. They made a few albums before that, but from what I've listened to, they're nowhere near as good as these last three. Guapo reminds me a bit of some of the most extreme Miles Davis fusion - lots of ring modulated Fender Rhodes electric piano. They also use prominent, lightly distorted bass guitar like Magma and other groups like them.
I also know next to nothing about them, but I originally found out about them while looking up info on another band, Miasma and the Carousel of Headless Horses, who shares a bandmember with Guapo. They're really cool too, though pretty different from Guapo.
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Posted: September 11 2012 at 07:25
infocat wrote:
Recommendations?
Five Suns, Black Oni and Elixirs would all be on my desert island discs.
The first two seem musically related but all are quite different.
Reference points from my own experience would be This Heat, King Crimson, "Ummagumma" period Floyd, Egg, Hatfield and the North. Very British, very creative...
Five Suns is like standing behind a jet engine. But in a good way.
Black Oni is like a civilised re-visiting of Five Suns.
When I first listened to Elixirs I really didn't like it. With hindsight this is because it is so different to the first two. Five Suns in particular is very primal, very primitive, whereas Elixirs is often more like lying in a rowing boat on a sunny day floating on calm waters, while the universe dances all around...
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Posted: September 11 2012 at 10:47
Like them a lot & really looking forward to the new release, it will be a CD/DVD combo with live footage from Nearfest. Steve F of Cuneiform talks very highly of the new release.
5 Suns in my favorite of theirs and is pretty much flawless. Elixir & Black Oni are both excellent albums.
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Posted: September 11 2012 at 17:50
^ Thats mostly my issue as well. I do have Great Sage... which is pretty cool.
But yes...Guapo is excellent. Five Suns is their peak I think, but Black Oni and Elixirs are quite good. Been waiting for theuir new one forever.
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Posted: September 11 2012 at 21:56
Saperlipopette! wrote:
^If you prefer the more quiet first six minutes you should start with Elixir, if you prefer the complex rockin' four last minutes maybe Black Oni and if you thought it made a flawess whole I'd reccomend my own favorite Five Suns
But you'll eventually need them all
Wow! Loved it all! Gonna have to get me some of that! The bass/drums/piano starting at 6 put me in mind of Happy Family. Too bad I just placed a lasers edge order last night, so it will have to wait.
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Posted: October 15 2012 at 20:07
I have Five Suns and I dislike it a lot, a really terrible investment. The whole albums sounds like you are chainned to one dark cold room all alone without anything to do.
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Posted: December 16 2012 at 08:42
CCVP wrote:
I have Five Suns and I dislike it a lot, a really terrible investment. The whole albums sounds like you are chainned to one dark cold room all alone without anything to do.
Sounds wonderful
That's exactly what I want from this type of music.
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