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STREAM: "Railways nos. 1-27"
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GANGI
LA-based psych duo GANGI will release their second
full-length release gesture isOctober 2nd on their own
Office of Analogue and Digital label. The band has started a Kickstarter
campaign to help fund the release of the record, and is offering fans a variety
of one-of-a-kind premiums, including custom-made studio equipment, synths,
and personalized songs. Check out their offerings here.
Listen to the band's new single and the record's opening
track "Railways nos. 1-27" over at SPIN.com.
Bio:
The GANGI duo are Time Travelers, taking from the past and
the future and inventing new genres in today's space-time... across history
forward and back, and it's all levy, as present is, but said that way, one
states... a different space-time. GANGI's music is a bit disorienting,
spanning across these many different genres... a fact they blame on all the
bright lights and industrial / informational noise they encounter and we are
all surrounded with as we go about our daily business in these post info age
times. GANGI takes almost every aspect of their music production upon
themselves at the Office of Analogue and Digital in the suburbs of Los
Angeles.
Matt Gangi self-released their debut recording A on the
Office of Analogue and Digital (OOAAD) (later released on vinyl by White
Noise). The album was recorded, written, performed, and produced by Matt
Gangi alone in a toxic, rent stabilized Brooklyn bedroom with poison
mushrooms poking through the ceiling plaster.
Gangi relocated to California after several national tours
with Lyle Nesse (who is now teaching English in inner-city Baltimore) and
started touring and recording with his old friend, drummer, multi-
instrumentalist and fellow experimentalist, Eric Chramosta. Together they
have continued in a DIY no-wave vein and self-produced, engineered, and
recorded hundreds of recordings.
The first collection of these is entitled gesture
is. The album was recorded at the OOAAD in Glendale, California.
Since recording A, Matt started building and modding analogue equipment for
the OOAAD... circuit bending, redesigning, building circuits, and combing
dried-out-lawn garage / estate sales looking for old analogue electronics to
fix and repurpose components from...The duo fixed up found mixers,
compressors, a 1/2" tape machine (among building other oscillators and
equipment)... which they use for sounds on gesture is and
their current live show.
Matt Gangi and Eric Chramosta drag in a thousand genre
sources that can shift without notice within the same song, then they rain it
down with ambient/ musique concrète effects atop decidedly psychedelic
broadcasts and an otherwise ethereal big-beat pop, appropriating themselves
and other transmissions with samplers. As GANGI, the duo devises the most
concrete links yet between kraut-rock and psych of the 60's and 70's (Neu,
Faust / Joseph Byrd's United States of America), Roxy Music/ENO, early Los
Angeles underground art rock of the 80's (Monitor), and from Creation
Record's Medicine and My Bloody Valentine to Slint, The Bomb Squad-produced
hip- hop, through the information bomb, combining some of these disparate
influences into new genres of the current space-time.
GANGI
gesture is
(Office of Analogue and Digital)
Street Date: October 2, 2012
Track List:
1. Railways nos. 1-27
2. Outside Ones
3. Keep a Pad & Pencil by the Phone
4. Hindering the Sight of Threatening Events
5. Gold
6. They Care About You
7. KH-12 IMPROVED CRYSTAL
8. It Really Shines
9. Perfect Citizen
10. Battle Hymn of the Culture and Consciousness
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