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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

Discography

Year Type Title Format Label Notes
1993 Album The Serpentine Similar LP/CD Teenbeat 1997 reissued on Dexter's Cigar (Drag City)
1994 Single 20 Songs Less 7" Teenbeat First release with Jim O'Rourke
1994 Album Crookt, Crackt, Fly Drag City "Work From Smoke" reuses riff from Bastro's "Produkt"

"Thos. Dudley Ah! Old Must Dye" gets its lyrics from a 1645 anonymous poem sent to Colony of Massachusetts Governor Thomas Dudley
"The C in Cake" gave Chicago indie pop band The Sea and Cake its name

1994 Comp Hey Drag City: "At Night and at Night" LP/CD Drag City
1994 EP Mirror Repair Drag City Cover: painting by Albert Oehlen
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
1996 Comp The Christmas Album: "The Bells of St. Mary" Sony
1997 Comp Conflagration: "Nani?" CD Creativeman Remix of Ground-Zero
1998 Album Camoufleur Drag City "Black Horse" is a cover of Vietnamese folk song

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"

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