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> Subject: gpr - germ > > here we are, post-techno post-ambient mid-90s miasma, ever eager for new > noises & hunting the furthest reaches of the digital world. remember gpr? > eccentric, erratic, expressive, their output is inadequately underrated, > but definitely worth pursuing. the imminent 'gueule de bois' ep by tim > wright (germ) actively explores the potential of idm architecture, > communicating across 4 carved tracks: > 'gueule' - a shocking sculpture of musicalogical ghosts; those backward > sounds seem so familiar yet so distant; very haunting. > 'lale' - adventure into disharmony & deconstructed melody > 'dope' - heaviest & best track, cumbersome but controlled like an angry > improvisation. very exciting, certainly unusual, determindly profound. > 'swim' - another bold & dense aurascape. aided by john dalby with hilary > jeffery providing trombone, this wilfully enters avant-garde terrain. > the one weakness is that the percussion is perhaps not as intriguing, nor > as intricate, as it could be. still, germ create profound audio philosophy > for idm heads & noise freaks. watch & listen. > >

Thanks for the review of the Gueule de Bois EP. The story behind Swim is that it was written and recorded in an afternoon with Hilary and John, and is perhaps as close to an improvisation between computer and trombone as we've yet managed. So there are inevitably loads of things that could be different. We thought that the recording captured something special and so it ended up on vinyl. Dope happened in more or less the same way one pissed off day last August, and I suppose has quite an improvised character as well. Look out for John Dalby's superb album "Magpie Zoom" and Germ's "Parrot" album which should both be out in a month or so, GPR willing. There should also be a web page for GPR very soon but don't hold your breath. Tim Wright.