[atlantaprog] Fwd: yo, Allen here's the info!

just back from NEARfest...

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From: "TIGHT BR0S NETW0RK" <randycastello11@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: June 26, 2006 11:58:54 AM EDT
To: agmedia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: yo, Allen here's the info!

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TUESDAY JUNE 27TH AT THE EARL

GUAPO
ZOMBI
THE SEVENTH RING OF SATURN

DOORS OPEN AT 9PM / $8 / 21 AND UP

Guapo are a recently expanded quartet of musicians from London. With this, their sixth album, Guapo have conjured a harrowingly complex and unflinchingly epic piece of work. Heady and hypnotic, driving and relentless, tumultuous and visceral, sonic and serene, the sheer odyssey that is Black Oni encompasses many paradoxes in its massively dynamic scope. Picking up where they left off from their previous Cuneiform Records release Five Suns (2002), the band continue to expand on their palette of dexterous chamber-rock anomalies, modal transcendence, and apocalyptic death marches, and like its predecessor, Black Oni is one singular piece of music, making it the second record in a trilogy of large-scale symphonic forms. Incorporating elements of prog, avant-garde jazz, kraut-rock, minimalism and a range of folk mediums from Britain to Indonesia, Guapo take their cue from a disparate array of influences including Magma, King Crimson, Boredoms, Goblin, Sun Ra, Charlemagne Palestine, Univers Zero, Tangerine Dream, This Heat, Rush and Popol Vuh. Black Oni is Guapos most monumentally unreserved offering to date. Ipecac records had the pleasure of releasing this one, and its owner, Mike Patton had this to say about the record (An enchanting journey, like a rollercoaster ride in the dark, every sound and odour a delight to the senses. A haunting orgiastic ritual with magnetism you wont soon forget. The listener doesnt stand a chance!).

Since the departure of Matt Thompson, the trio of OSullivan, Smith and new bass master, David Ledden have toured Europe extensively, both headlining shows and moonlighting with fellow Ipecac comrades, Fantomas. The band has since added Kavus Torabi (formerly of the avant-psych pop group The Monsoon Bassoon and current Cardiacs axeman) to the fold. The bands intense live show continues to progress and expand, as the influences heard on the records are thrown into the air and reassembled as an incendiary mixture of plate-spinning dexterity, telepathic instrumental interplay and extreme avant-noise. The assembly of Dave Smiths explosive drum assaults, David Leddens massive bass anomalies, Daniel OSullivans ethereal keyboard reveries and Kavus Torabis pointillist guitar excursions telepathically collide in an augury of rich and cinematic musical ceremony. The current line-up is guaranteed to destroy everything in its wake. Expect blue-faced monsters, gong banging gargoyles, militant intimidation tactics, and a cloud of incense. You have been warned!

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