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Five Suns

by Guapo

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Dan Piponi
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Dan Piponi Five Suns II is the standout track for me. Listen for the electronics (sounds like someone twiddling knobs on a signal generator) buried under the muscular drums and bass. Sort of science fiction B movie material. Good stuff. Favorite track: Five Suns II.
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Chris van Eijnsbergen Guapo is great music, very powerfull, complex and has sometimes a repetitive structure. The music has something worrying.
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scubageek Excellent album that continues in the tradition of the classic Magma albums!
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1.
Five Suns I 04:31
2.
Five Suns II 10:18
3.
Five Suns III 10:30
4.
Five Suns IV 12:56
5.
Five Suns V 07:54
6.
(Untitled) 01:00
7.
Mictlan 08:57
8.
Topan 06:36

about

Guapo is a British trio that plays an intense music that straddles the boundaries of progressive, noise, minimalism and avant-rock. Their sound has been compared to such artists as Magma, Boredoms, King Crimson, Univers Zero, This Heat, Ruins, Sun Ra and Terry Riley. As Sound Projector put it, "Guapo come on like all the hellhounds of Magma, Eskaton and Ruins were after them...on a par with Magma’s Kohntarkosz or Univers Zero’s Ceux Du Dehors". Five Suns is the band’s fifth album, and its first on Cuneiform.

Five Suns is Guapo’s most apocalyptic and dynamically accomplished work to date, bringing a new sense of sonic and spatial awareness to the band's trademark sensibilities of complex song structures, harmonic atonality and percussive mantras. Five Suns makes use of vintage equipment such as Fender Rhodes, mellotron, Moogs and gongs to create a colour-saturated patchwork of epic, primordial beauty. The new instrumentation has allowed their sound into more ambitious vistas, where progressive influences are turned on their head by both the infusion of hardcore rock energy and the use of hypnotic, trance-like repetition.

Over the course of the 46 minute title track, as well as the two additional pieces on the album, the manic jazz-inflected drumming, brooding zeuhl bass and pointillist keyboards maintain a relentless driving momentum while deftly negotiating a carefully controlled ebb and flow.

"...sipping from the same dark chalice that intoxicated Lark’s Tongues era King Crimson..."
- The Wire.

credits

released January 13, 2004

Daniel O'Sullivan - Fender Rhodes, Organ, Mellotron, Harmonium, Guitar, Electronics
Dave Smith - Drums, Percussion
Matt Thompson - Bass, Guitar, Electronics

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Pete Lyons at Zed One Studios London between August 2002 and April 2003.

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Cuneiform Records Washington, D.C.

Cuneiform Records is a record label releasing adventurous, boundary-bursting music by artists from around the world.

They have always championed an eclectic mixture of musical styles and artists and have consistently danced at the dangerous intersection where genres meet.

In doing so, they have become one of the most prominent labels of New Music.

Founded in 1984.
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