Guapo - Death Seed

More Guapo delicacies, including collaborations with japanese motherfuckers Ruins and the british Improv duo The Shock Exchange.

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Guapo - Great Sage, Equal of Heaven

Mr. Co-Coon, who was kind enough to post Guapo's massive "Black Oni" (cop it, NOW), asked me to post some more stuff from this wonderful group, so here is their fourth album, from 2001. Zeuhl and avant prog manoeuvres designed to open third eyes the size of Escalade rims. More to follow.

Sakura

Guapo - Black Oni (2004)

"Guapo's music explores the outer-most regions of psychedelic composition. Flickers of Popol Vuh, This Heat, Magma, Third Ear Band, King Crimson and early 70’s Miles Davis are present as over-arching themes are morphed and mined through polyrhythmic asymmetrical structures. Dense orchestration and mercurial compositions have led them to associations with zeuhl."

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Magma - 1.001 Degrees Centigrade

Another great fuckin' Magma album (their second), more in the jazz-rock vein of Nucleus or Soft Machine, but with the Magmaesque signature already in place.

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Magma - Live 1975 Paris

Perhaps their best live album (and they have plenty), this behemoth has a 31 minute version of "Kohntark" that leaves pretenders in the dust with its unyielding complexity and ferocity.

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Magma - Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh

They invented their own language. They created an impossibly complex opera across six or seven albums that entailed the destruction of Earth an its impending salvation by a race of benevolent, highly advanced extra terrestrials. They married the emotion and power of Love Supreme with the grandiosity of Stravinsky and Orff and the technique of Mahavishnu. They all dressed equally and wore a huge fucking necklace with their logo. They had a whole genre named after one of their songs. They were demented. They were Magma. Kobaia is de hundin!!

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