| Dwyer, John, Ryan Sawyer, Greg Coates, Wilder Zoby, Andres Renteria / Gong Splat |
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| Album: | Gong Splat | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Dwyer, John, Ryan Sawyer, Greg Coates, Wilder Zoby, Andres Renteria | Added: | Oct 2022 | |
| Label: | Self-Release | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2023-01-20 | Pull Date: | 2023-03-24 |
| Week Ending: | Mar 12 | Feb 12 | Feb 5 | Jan 29 | Jan 22 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Apr 01, 2023: | Music Casserole Yuggoth Travel Agency, Giedi Prime | 4. | Feb 04, 2023: | Music Casserole Yuggoth Travel Agency | |
| 2. | Mar 08, 2023: | Some Songs Without Words Giedi Prime | 5. | Feb 01, 2023: | Brain worm Hypogeum | |
| 3. | Feb 11, 2023: | Music Casserole Giedi Prime | 6. | Jan 28, 2023: | Buford J. Sharkley Presents: As Told to Hervey Okkles Yuggoth Travel Agency, Gong Splat |
| Album Review |
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| Wallace Brontoon Reviewed 2022-12-28 | ||
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Madman John Dwyer (Oh Sees, Osees, OCS, Coachwhips, Damaged Bug, etc)'s new project involves several notable collaborators and a focus on improvisation, but they don't have a snappy name for the group this time around, huh. Anyway, if you know Dwyer, you know what you're in for; if you don't, expect deep krauty jams and spacey sounds; everything here is instrumental, so no FCCs. Everything's good, but the longer tracks have more room to breathe 1. (3:47) ***** Insistent kraut drumming, noodly parts (sparse organ way up in the cloud of sound), monkey screech synths; samey but a good little groove 2. (4:53) ***** Scuba-documentary/spy movie bass-y sounds with radar beeping; drums become more frantic halfway thru; paranoia increases but still with laid-back chill vibes; nice echoey annihilation to end 3. (7:14) ***** Funky kraut mellow groove, squonky fuzzy noodling; extra extra spacey mood, paranoid spacewalk; the last minute sees the groove wash away, leaving a tiny little sparkly organ 4. (4:25) ** Slower, moody; religious bongo ceremony 5. (8:58) ****** Plinky lounge organ to start, all over background of far-away space atmosphere; lighter and more buoyant‒it's like a space-western sitcom soundtrack. More easy-listening than kraut-y, but nothing is quite like this; energy winds down 2-3rds thru, but rebuilds energy with renewed krautiness 6. (2:48) **** Feel-good crunchy calculator sounds and sax-y sounds in a spacestorm gentle breeze; ends with just wind sounds for 15 seconds or so 7. (2:20) *** Serious and doomy drums, simple and repetitive questioning loop; splits and splats everywhere around, suddenly ends 8. (1:32) ** ANTIC! Everybody's scrambling 9. (3:36) **** Track is named after one of the planet in Dune; very spare and severe and drumless; lot of growly lowness, but also sparkly synths; fades away -Hervey Okkles | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Gong Splat | 5. | Yuggoth Travel Agency | |||
| 2. | Cultivated Graves | 6. | Hypogeum | |||
| 3. | Toagut | 7. | Oneironaut | |||
| 4. | Anther Dust | 8. | Minor Protocides | |||
| 9. | Giedi Prime | |||||