GASTR DEL SOL - Upgrade & Afterlife DLP Minimal striking my mother right in

striking my mother right in the belly

she embarked on her first recording project with Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s Das Jahr (“The Year”

His words are often more impressionistic than overt in their storytelling

Basically the premise is that Cam Deas twiddles around on the guitar while Jack messes the whole thing up with tape manipulations

GASTR DEL SOL - Upgrade & Afterlife DLP Minimal striking my mother right inWay back when, Upgrade & Afterlife was the umpteenth release from the individual and collective forces of David Grubbs (known then for Bastro, The Red Krayola, Codeine, Squirrel Bait) and Jim O"Rourke (known for O"Rourke), whose further history has since numbered at least another umpteen or so essential listens. What is it though, wrapped up in delectable sonic amber here, that defines this Upgrade? To be sure, we hear these young men dashing through