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Klaus Kombalad
Album: Hur!
Released: Mar 23, 2009
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General Info

  • Genre: Experimental / Progressive / Rock

    Location London, London and South East, Un

    Profile Views: 204136

    Last Login: 8/2/2011

    Member Since 7/11/2005

    Website www.guapo.co.uk

    Record Label Cuneiform, Ipecac, Neurot, Aurora Borealis.

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    ..Discography..:.. .. ..Elixirs CD.. Neurot Recordings 2008.. ..Black Oni LP.. Hlava Records 2007.. ..Twisted Stems CDEP.. Aurora Borealis 2006.. ..Twisted Stems 7"EP.. Dot Dot Dot Music 2006.. ..Black Oni CD.. Ipecac Recordings 2005.. ..Five Suns CD.. Cuneiform Records 2004.. ..Ducks and Drakes of Guapo & Cerberus Shoal CD.. North East Indie 2003.. ..Great Sage Equal of Heaven CD.. Tumult/Pandemonium Records 2001.. ..Death Seed (with Ruins and Shock Exchange) CD.. Freeland Records 2000.. ..Hirohito CD.. Pandemonium Records 1998.. ..Towers Open Fire CD.. Power Tool Records 1997.. ........ .. ..Elixirs Appraisal.... .. ..Elixirs may accelerate their justified rise to prominence...Guapo manage to make music that captures the essence of those strange hours just before dawn where nothing is real and it feels as if anything is possible. A strange world of half open doors, and shrouded pictures that is quite, quite beautiful... ..Zero Tolerance.... .. ..Fusing a deathly post-folk style of composition with wild, exploratory sounds. Stylistically, a single piece of music can turn several corners within just a few moments... ..Boomkat.... .. ..Guapo are very deep. Their press release is chock full of words I don't understand relating to and hinting at themes I am not familiar with. While psychadelic music is known to me, never have I heard anything quite like Elixirs... ..Music Emissions.... .. ..Elixirs takes brave listeners on a journey through dark forests of time to emerge in barren, but not interminable, climes beyond the treeline. This journey, however, is no fool’s errand. Both external discoveries and deep self-analysis are its reward... ..Alarm.... .. ..Guapo, I believe, really have accomplished something far greater than the sum of their past career. Four years in the making, Elixirs is certainly more mature, more thought through, more classy and arranged, more logical in its evolution, as well as way clearer in vision and intent... ..Avant-Garde Metal.... .. ..Elixirs abounds with gorgeous melodies suffused in elegant tonalities, but nothing sounds obvious or played out. Rather, mystery imbues nearly every passage over the disc's six tracks (stretched over 58 minutes, all of them justified)... ..Curb Your Cynicism.... .. ..Their tidal force succeeds in distorting the listeners’ interior strings in no time; intensely rarefied, the music swirls around your brain and continues to swoosh long after the last note is played... ..The Silent Ballet.... .. ..Droning strings. Eastern melodies. Bombastic battery. Elegant eeriness. Yet at this point, Guapo have developed their own sound to a degree where you can't just tag them as a retro proposition... ..Aquarius Records.... .. ..Anyone who misses the epic gestures of old can only marvel at Guapo's restrained sleight of hand, given the ambiance of ritualistic intensity herein... ..Terrorizer.... .. ..

  • Members

    ..Emmett Elvin..: Fender Rhodes, Keyboards.. ..Kavus Torabi..: Guitar.. ..James Sedwards..: Bass.. ..David J. Smith... Drum kit, Percussion..

  • Influences

    &Magma, Miles Davis, Phil Niblock, Popol Vuh, Third Ear Band, Art zoyd, John Alice Coltrane, Alejandro Jodorowsky,Harry Partch, Sun Ra, Area, Bubu, Captain Beefheart, Univers Zero, Pharoah Sanders, Bela Tarr, Lamonte Young, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Moondog, Ornette Coleman, Henry Cow, Soft Machine, Boredoms, This Heat, The Necks, Edgard Varêse, Bo Hansson, Charles Mingus, Andrei Tarkovsky, Elem Klimov, Gentle Giant, Hatfield's, National Health,Terry Riley, Morton Feldman, Peter Brötzmann, Han Bennink, Amon Duul II, Aphrodite's Child, King Crimson, Don Cherry, Codona, Glenn Branca, Gong, Weidorje, Charlemagne Palestine, Samla Mammas Manna, Parson Sound, Arvo part, The Pretty Things, The Who, Tony Conrad, J.G. Ballard, Philip K. Dick, Black Sabbath, Werner Herzog, McCoy Tyner, Art Bears, Brian Eno, Robert Fripp and on and on......

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  • Monica Vazquesmalo

    hey graciaas por aceptar! saluditos!

    1 year ago
  • Another Human

    If i have 3 of your albums do i have em all? Someone check out my music and say something mean to em about it.

    1 year ago
  • acratarca

    Music for the end of mercantile culture.

    1 year ago
  • I LoVe you Ojeda

    ola mas guapo

    1 year ago
  • ///

    Yeah
    !

    1 year ago
  • Ashville Disease

    thanks for your friendship!
    good music!!
    greetings from Ashville Disease
    Sicily

    1 year ago
  • a doom

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    Hailz ... GUAPO ......


    DARK Greetingz from the Land of the MOURNING calm ... I, Pain of "a doom" would like to send out my deepest gratitude and respects to GUAPO ......

    Thank you very much for the EVIL nod ... It's truly an honor to be friendz with you ...... 

    I wish you ALL the best and send my double horns to your wonderful DARK stylish Rock ......

    Just say "a doom" : It means DARKNESS in Korean ... With that in mind ......


    May the DARKNESS be with you ......


    |m|_ //-_- _|m/ 




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  • Trefor Goronwy

    It's been a while since I heard this stuff.  Would love to see you play live - any plans beyond the upcoming gig in 2009?
    All the best,

    T

    2 years ago
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Update 2011

Following a year's hiatus in 2010 Guapo are currently resuming work on a new album for Cuneiform Records. It is with regret we announce our split with keyboardist Daniel O Sullivan but are happy to announce his replacement as Emmett Elvin. Both David J Smith and Kavus Torabi have played previously in Chrome Hoof with Elvin who also plays keyboards in Kavus Torabi's psychedelic band Knifeworld. Guapo wish Daniel O Sullivan all the best with the many projects he is involved with. The new album will see a return to the 'long form' composition of Five Suns and Black Oni while covering much ground previously unexplored by the group. David J Smith has been editing and mixing the footage and audio from the performance of Five Suns at NearFest 2006 with artist & filmaker Tai Shani and engineer Antti Uusimaki. A memorable day in many respects, not least for the fact that the band were rushed through the night in two taxi cabs from Phillidelphia after our van broke down, leaving barely enough time to down a coffee before gracing the stage that afternoon. The results will be available as a bonus DVD with the new album on Cuneiform in 2012 Guapo will be resuming live duties in the Autumn and are planning a number of dates in the UK and mainland Europe in October followed by a short USA tour in November including a performance at John Zorn's N.Y. venue The Stone as part of Cuneiform's festival there. Dates will be forthcoming when confirmed. Many thanks for your continued support. Guapo.

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