GYANISM

Information: Scott Sinclair – drums, voice (also of Company Fuck, Botborg), Yusuke Akai – electric guitar, electronics, voice (also of The Mute Canary Project, Taste of Teeth), Joel Stern – trumpet, electronics, voice (also of Abject Leader, Impromptulons, Sky Needle), Daiji Igarashi – electric guitar, electronics, voice (also of The Night of Love).

Known recordings: ‘An Interstate Pugilist’ CDR released by Music Your Mind Will Love You (MYMWLY098),  ‘Yr Nicked’ 3″ CDR released by Half/Theory (HALF07)

‘Yr Nicked’ is loud. Really fucking loud. It’s apparently a live document of a show at the Globe Theatre in Brisbane – 17/12/2005, too (sound-tracking The Bill(!?)). Harsh electronics, battered guitars and drums with over-the-top, off-the-meds screaming and horns wailing in the background. With headphones on it’s akin to simulated electroshock treatment. A sampled voice comes in at around the fifth minute “That’s right mate, that’s what I said mate” over a small relatively subdued break only to build up to another weird tier and finally some kind of rhythm with the blown-out drums taking lead. Eventually the chaos resides and the horns play a bigger part, the screaming has been replaced with multi-voiced wordless tangents, and with ever-present ear-piercing electronics keeping the tension up it’s an overall unsettling ~20 minutes in total, surely to send your khaki-toting friends out of the room and questioning your mental state nevermind the loonies behind the speakers; Let’s just put this one back in the drawer and go outside for a while.

Links: Half/theory – ‘Yr Nicked’ description

Media: You can stream or download ‘Yr Nicked’ at Archive.org. You can also download “Thumb Hard” from ‘An Interstate Pugilist’ at Last.fm.