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Gastr del Sol

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Band (91-97)

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

Bastro

  • Gastr del Sol grew out of Louisville punk group Bastro (87-91)
    • 1988 Rode Hard & Put Up Wet (Homestead)
    • 1989 "Shoot Me a Deer" / "Goiter Blazes" (Homestead)
    • 1989 Diablo Guapo (Homestead)
    • 1990 Split, My Dad Is Dead: "Nothing Special" / Flesh Colored House (Clawfist)
    • 1990 Sing the Troubled Beast (Homestead)
    • 1991 Split, Codeine: A l'ombre de nous / "Produkt" (Glitterhouse)
    • 1991 Comp, Flat: "It's Mercury I've Got in My Hips" (Locust)
    • 1993 Comp, Teenbeat 50: "Sketch for Sleepy" (Matador)
    • 2005 Sing the Troubled Beast / Diablo Guapo (Drag City)
      • Two-albums-on-one-CD reissue supposedly only briefly in print
    • 2005 Antlers: Live 1991 (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")

Discography

  • 1993 The Serpentine Similar (Teenbeat)
  • 1994 20 Songs Less (Teenbeat)
    • First release with Jim O'Rourke
  • 1994 Crookt, Crackt, Fly (Drag City)
  • 1994 Mirror Repair (Drag City)
  • 1995 The Harp Factory on Lake Street (Table of the Elements)
  • 1995 The Japanese Room at La Pagode / May (split with Tony Conrad) (Table of the Elements)
  • 1995 Red Hot + Bothered (comp; track "Quietly Approaching") (Kinetic)
  • 1996 Upgrade & Afterlife (Drag City)
  • 1998 Camoufleur (Drag City)

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