GARY WAR (NYC, Captured Tracks) w/ GIRLS NAMES + LOGIKPARTY- Whelans (upstairs) (1 Viewer)

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Skinny Wolves Presents:

GARY WAR
(NYC, Captured Tracks/ Sacred Bones)
w/ GIRLS NAMES
+ LOGIKPARTY

Wednesday 6th January 2010

Whelans (upstairs), Wexford St, Dublin
Tickets 10e (w/ booking fee to be included) : from Tickets.ie/ Road Records / City Discs

Ex ARIEL PINK band member, GARY WAR's thick synth heavy psychedelia occupies a space between spacey bedroom experimentalists like R. Stevie Moore or the more contemporary Kurt Vile and the abrasive proto-punk of Chrome and Debris....

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GARY WAR
(NYC, Captured Tracks/ Sacred Bones)

http://www.myspace.com/garywargarywar
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Gary War’s keyboard and tape manipulations exist in the loner sphere somewhere between the Legendary Pink Dots’ keyboard driven take on UK psychedelia and current fellow travelers like the Pink Noise. Like the LPD or Ariel Pink (to whom he’s garnered comparisons since the debut LP release) the odd experimental arrangements and off-kilter instrumentation never stray very far from melancholy pop song structures rooted around a catchy hook and melody.

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Gary War, based in New York, is a creative musician, who plays the overlayed instruments and provides vocals on the albums and like many artists of this style, is not forthcoming on providing much information, relying on the output to reflect what they are about.

The electronic buzz which resonates through the music, with heavily textured vocal generates superb Sci-fi indie (is that a real genre? – well it is now). Gary War creates an unmistakable sound, that appears immediately familiar, but is completely fresh and new.

The extensive use of synths are reminiscent of ’80s new wave bands, this combines with complex mixing which has the feel of underground sci-fi films and psychedelic rock of the late ’70s. By combining these elements Gary War creates something new and compelling.

I am reminded of so many bands when listening to this music, yet it is none of them. Hawkwind, Kraftwerk and that Synth could be any of the new romantics.

Gary War does so much more with the music as the tracks weave through what on the face of it, seems to be an unstructured course. This seeming crash course is a disaster when attempted by many. War, however pulls it all out of the bag, creating a sound which when it hits your ears has an order and sense about it and music which is great to write about on the indie bands blog. - Indie bands blog

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"...When an act comes along such as Gary War that seems to conjure the ever-changing zeitgeist of psychedelia out of the ether, it's remarkable...His tonal insobriety, from one song to the next is a true sign of the times, where artists are driven to explore different avenues, melding genres, vocal styles and instrumentation to arrive somewhere new.." -Victim Of Time on "New Raytheonport"

"Gary War is taking sonic wizardry to levels as yet uncharted by man. While we sleep he is fashioning lyric webs like a yellow brick path thru the rawest of the honest..." -La Maladie Tropicale

"The best modern psych sounds bar none" -Volcanic Tongue on "Zontag" 7"

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Less Lisa Lisa than Nite Jewel, but without John Maus’ madman disco, Gary War is another Stateside analogue acolyte. Bearing a tape-recorder and nodding a head to late ’60s psychedelia (‘Bounce Four’), ‘New Raytheonport’ builds up lounge-lizard layers of eight-tracked melody, warping them before they finish their drinks. ‘Healthy Living’ comes straight from the Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti songbook – so muted that it makes John Cage’s ‘4’33’ sound like the Eroica Symphony, and with a bassline groove that’s looking to hustle. An ambitious cover of the Alan Parsons Project’s ‘Eye In The Sky’ pays off – somehow predating and supplanting the original, replacing prog with overheard chats. Reset your ears to ‘eavesdrop’, turn up the volume and enjoy." - Ailbhe Malone / NME

Operating out of New York City, current Gary War releases include "New Raytheonport" LP (SHDWPLY), "Zontag" 7" (Sacred Bones), "Anhedonic Man" one-sided 7" (Hell Yes!), "Opens-Live at WFMU" Cassette (Captured Tracks), "Horribles Parade" LP (Sacred Bones) and "Galactic Citizens" 12" ep (Captured Tracks).

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GIRLS NAMES
(Cass / Flick)

http://www.myspace.com/girlsnames
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Formed in January 2009 as a last minute support act for a WAVVES gig, GNs unabashedly hark back to the early/mid eighties shadow world of Beat Happening, C86, Postcard Records and The Birthday Party, with some big dumb Dennis Wilson drums thrown in for good measure.
 

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