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Topic: Guapo announce new and re-releases

Posted By: HLAVA
Subject: Guapo announce new and re-releases
Date Posted: January 29 2008 at 10:17

i ve been asked to post a new topic on GUAPOs new outputs. here we go.

ELIXIRS

"elixirs" is the name of their newst efort which might be out around february/march 2008 on http://www.neurotrecordings.com - www.neurotrecordings.com . the vinyl version will be out on http://www.aurora-b.com - www.aurora-b.com simultanously. you can listen to one new song on daniel o sullivans myspace page.

http://www.myspace.com/danielohsullivan - www.myspace.com/danielohsullivan

FIVE SUNS (vinyl)

guapo, cuneiform and HLAVA have agreed on a vinyl production of five suns. more infos will follow aswell as a release date. it is gonna be out this year for sure, most probably later in 2008. the cd version is still available at cuneiform

BLACK ONI (vinyl)

the deluxe-vinyl version is selling very well (after 1,5 months only 180 copies left out of 500) and it is getting a very good response. in case you dont wanna miss your chance go to:

http://www.HLAVA-temple.com - www.HLAVA-temple.com

http://www.myspace.com/hlava - www.myspace.com/hlava

so far...

http://www.guapo.co.uk - www.guapo.co.uk

http://guaponews.blogspot.com/ - http://guaponews.blogspot.com/

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Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: January 29 2008 at 18:00

Very nice! I can't wait for Elixirs!

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Posted By: Apsalar
Date Posted: January 29 2008 at 18:28

Great news, I have been tossing up purchasing the remastered vinyls as well, I just need to get some money together, I should get paid one of these days.

Question: do you distribute to any Australian dealers?

Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: January 29 2008 at 18:45

Last time they said that Elixirs was going to be out in January...

Can't wait for it to come out!

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Posted By: HLAVA
Date Posted: January 29 2008 at 19:01

Black Velvet wrote:

Great news, I have been tossing up purchasing the remastered vinyls as well, I just need to get some money together, I should get paid one of these days.

Question: do you distribute to any Australian dealers?

unfortunetelly not. any help is appreciated. do you know any shop/distro/mailorder who might be interested?

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Posted By: HLAVA
Date Posted: January 29 2008 at 19:02

HLAVA wrote:

unfortunetelly not. any help is appreciated. do you know any shop/distro/mailorder who might be interested?

hey!!! i am a huge CIRCLE fan. more into the kraut/folky/impro stuff than the heavy metal. katapult is ace, though

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Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: January 29 2008 at 19:15

HLAVA wrote:

hey!!! i am a huge CIRCLE fan. more into the kraut/folky/impro stuff than the heavy metal. katapult is ace, though

Cool!!

Circle are great! I love those guys and I agree with your opinion about their discography. I wonder what will they pull off next?

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Posted By: Apsalar
Date Posted: January 29 2008 at 19:16

HLAVA wrote:

unfortunetelly not. any help is appreciated. do you know any shop/distro/mailorder who might be interested?

It might be worth your while getting in contact with Oren Ambarchi. He works at a shop down in Melbourne called Metropolis Bookshop (who also sells CD's). I know him and David have played in Sunn o))) together.

Posted By: HLAVA
Date Posted: January 29 2008 at 19:51

wow, this is a great idea. i am going to contact him tomorrow. thank you

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Posted By: HLAVA
Date Posted: January 29 2008 at 19:51

chamberry wrote:

HLAVA wrote:

hey!!! i am a huge CIRCLE fan. more into the kraut/folky/impro stuff than the heavy metal. katapult is ace, though

Cool!!

Circle are great! I love those guys and I agree with your opinion about their discography. I wonder what will they pull off next?

time will tell.

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Posted By: Apsalar
Date Posted: January 29 2008 at 20:54

HLAVA wrote:

wow, this is a great idea. i am going to contact him tomorrow. thank you

No worries. Keep me informed to how it pans out.

Posted By: HLAVA
Date Posted: February 18 2008 at 07:22

Elixirs is now due for release on http://www.neurotrecordings.com/ - Neurot Recordings (CD) and http://www.aurora-b.com/ - Aurora Borealis on (vinyl) in May 2008.

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Posted By: GosudO
Date Posted: February 25 2008 at 13:01

ELIXIRS:

"It lay quite still; he touched it, it was dead. Accustomed no doubt to a sedentary life, an uneventful existence spent under its humble carapace, it had not been able to support the dazzling splendour imposed on it, the glittering garment in which it had been clad, the pavement of precious stones wherewith they had inlaid its poor back like a jewelled pyx."
J.K. Huysmans (A Rebours, 1884)

The house of the idealist is teeming with the most unlikely of treasures. Fairies, jewelled turtles, lindworms and moon worshipping plants are but a few residents. But in these fragments contain a cognitive universe propelled by an unspoken and unheard pantheon. Guapo give voice to this realm, where the mystical philosophies of Huysmans, Kircher, Conan Doyle, Hyltén-Cavallius and many others are used as facilitators and indeed, guardians for the music conceived on "Elixirs".

As a result, Elixirs transcends any musical antecedents that Guapo have been acknowledged for in the past. Instead, the music here explores the outer-most regions of psychedelic composition. Flickers of Popol Vuh, This Heat, Magma, Third Ear Band, Moondog and early 70's Miles Davis are present here as over-arching themes are morphed and mined through serpentine asymmetrical structures. Chiming rounds and canons swim through a sapphirine ocean of polyrhythmic mantra. All sullenly overcast with compositions so mercurial, the paths you can take are infinite. The dense orchestration and finespun virtuosity (seamlessly captured by engineer / producer Antti Uusimaki) create a richness previously hinted at but never fully realized until now. Vocal contributions from Swans chanteuse Jarboe and O'Sullivan's long-time friend and cohort Alexander Tucker, illuminate the Twisted Stems suite into a realm of composition previously unexplored by the band. On "Elixirs" Guapo have opened a secret vault of treasures where jewels of sulphurous green and ashen blue blossom dwell. Where springs of fire feverishly burst through a vista of golden chrysoberyls. Let the ceremony commence.

From http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=21249958&blogID=360051221

Why did i read this ?
I can't wait. Cry

Posted By: HLAVA
Date Posted: February 29 2008 at 19:56

elixirs = bad ass motherf**ker!!!!!

HEAVY, dark and desperate zeuhl music. you ll love it! cant wait to get the vinyl version from http://www.aurora-b.com - www.aurora-b.com

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