Gastr del Sol

Band (91-97)

• David Grubbs
• Jim O'Rourke (93-97)
• John McEntire
• Bundy K. Brown (91-93)

• Mostly a duo based in Chicago between David Grubbs and Jim O'Rourke

Discography

Albums

Year	Title	Label
1993	The Serpentine Similar	Teenbeat
1994	Crookt, Crackt, Fly	Drag City
1994	Mirror Repair EP	Drag City
1995	The Harp Factory on Lake Street EP	Table of the Elements
1996	Upgrade & Afterlife	Drag City
1998	Camoufleur	Drag City

Full

Year	Type	Title	Format	Label	Notes
1993	Album	The Serpentine Similar	LP/CD	Teenbeat	"A Watery Kentucky" references Dear Betty Baby Reissued in 1997 on Dexter's Cigar (Drag City)
1994	Single	20 Songs Less	7"	Teenbeat	First release with Jim O'Rourke, last release with Bundy K. Brown
1994	Album	Crookt, Crackt, Fly		Drag City	"Work From Smoke" reuses a riff from Bastro's "Produkt" "Thos. Dudley Ah! Old Must Dye" gets its lyrics from an anonymous 1645 poem sent to Colony of Massachusetts Governor Thomas Dudley The indie pop group The Sea and Cake (with John McEntire on drums) got its name from a mishearing of "The C in Cake"
1994	Comp	Hey Drag City: "At Night and at Night"	LP/CD	Drag City
1994	EP	Mirror Repair		Drag City	The cover is a 1992 fabric painting by Albert Oehlen, untitled
1995	EP	The Harp Factory on Lake Street	CD	Table of the Elements
1995	Split	"The Japanese Room at La Pagode" / "May"	7"	Table of the Elements	Split with Tony Conrad
1995	Comp	Red Hot + Bothered: "Quietly Approaching"		Kinetic
1996	Album	Upgrade & Afterlife		Drag City	"Our Exquisite Replica of 'Eternity'" is named after a knockoff gas station perfume and samples the 1957 science fiction film "The Incredible Shrinking Man" "Rebecca Sylvester" got its name from a road sign "Dry Bones in the Valley" is a John Fahey cover and features Tony Conrad on violin. Jim O'Rourke would again combine Fahey and Conrad's styles with his 1997 piece "Happy Days"
1996	Comp	The Christmas Album: "The Bells of St. Mary"		Sony Japan	Cover of Bob B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans song
1997	Comp	Conflagration: "Nani?"	CD	Creativeman	Remix of Ground-Zero
1998	Album	Camoufleur		Drag City	"Black Horse" is a cover of Vietnamese folk song Lý Ngựa Ô

Other projects with both Grubbs and O'Rourke

• Brise-Glace - When in Vanitas... (1994) Skin Graft [LP/CD]
• The Red Krayola (album)
• Amor and Language
• Tony Conrad - Slapping Pythagoras (1995) Table of the Elements [CD]
• David Grubbs - Banana Cabbage, Potato Lettuce, Onion Orange (1996) Table of the Elements [CD]
• Japan in Paris in L.A.
• Hazel
• Boxhead Ensemble - Dutch Harbor: Where the Sea Breaks Its Back (1997) Atavistic [CD]
• Edith Frost - Calling Over Time (1997) Drag City [LP/CD]
• Stephen Prina - Push Comes to Love (1997) Drag City [CD]
  • Both producing

Bastro

Louisville punk band that grew into Gastr del Sol

Year	Type	Title	Format	Label	Notes
1988	EP	Rode Hard & Put Up Wet	12"	Homestead
1989	Single	"Shoot Me a Deer" / "Goiter Blazes"	7"	Homestead
1989	Album	Diablo Guapo	LP/CD	Homestead	"Pretty Smart on My Part" is a Phil Ochs cover
1990	Split	"Nothing Special" / "Flesh Colored House"	7"	Clawfist	Split with My Dad Is Dead covering each others' songs
1990	Album	Sing the Troubled Beast	LP/CD	Homestead
1991	Split	"A l'ombre de nous" / "Produkt"	7"	Glitterhouse	Split with Codeine
1993	Comp	Teenbeat 50: "Sketch for Sleepy"	LP	Matador
2005	Comp	Sing the Troubled Beast / Diablo Guapo	CD	Drag City	Two-on-one-CD reissue supposedly only briefly in print
2005	Live	Antlers: Live 1991	CD	Drag City	Most of these tunes were reappropriated for Gastr del sol 1. "A Watery Kentucky" 2. "Work From Smoke" 3. "Fool Summons Train" 4. "Produkt" 5. "Ursus Arctos Wonderfilis" 6. "For Soren Mueller" 7. "Dictionary of Handwriting"

Links

• Gastr del Sol on Wikipedia
• Gastr del Sol on RateYourMusic
• Gastr del Sol fansite