released July 13, 2018
GUIGUISUISUI is a two piece journey into sound and performance. Man and woman, East and West, past and future. By blending electronic sounds and samples the duo explore genres such as goth rock, blues, death punk, minimal wave, industrial, and ambient, while performing an avante garde opera featuring a number of time travelling characters: the tourists from the future Guigui and Susu; trailed by King Necro and Pumpkin Queen, leaders of the death kult of the slums of the hive city; and from high up in the glittering spires of tomorrow preacher and minister for the Chruch of Data, Lord Kamemameha and Lady Chakra. Meanwhile a journey through time and space plays out in the background through painstakingly detailed animations that explore the themes of life and death and rebirth. Simply put, GUIGUISUISUI is an experience.
www.guiguisuisui.com
guiguisuisui.bandcamp.com
facebook.com/Guiguisuisui
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EMERGE is inspired by the minimalist traditions of experimentalism and non-academic noise music, focusing on generating sound structures intended to make atmospheres emerge that are open to each listener’s own interpretation. The choice of sound sources used is usually very limited. In most cases only rudiments of the original sounds are recognizable due to various treatments. EMERGE also uses and recycles raw material from a variety of artists/musicians.
vimeo.com/256196614
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JzItpbi_rk&feature=youtu.be
noiseberg.bandcamp.com/track/emerge
emerge.bandcamp.com/album/narcoses
emergeac.wordpress.com
www.facebook.com/emerge.dependenz/
EMERGE also runs attenuation circuit, a label for experimental music and is an organizer for mostly experimental music located in Augsburg, Germany.
www.attenuationcircuit.de
www.discogs.com/label/Attenuation+Circuit
emerge.bandcamp.com
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FELT HAT REVIEWS
Emerge and Guiguisuisui join their forces to showcase some interesting beats, textures in the tracks on both side of this tape.
Guiguisuisui brings back the the type of blend that includes post-industrial goth rock, drone textures, no wave or dark wave influnces with guitars and vocal. It is very theatrical in the most positive sense, dark and brings the best influnces like PTV or Column One to light - haunting narrative of a ritual
Emerge on the other hand (who is Sascha from Attenuation himself by the way) is a non-academic approach to noise/drone music - very individualistic and much of the almost 16 minute track on the cassette reminds me of the luminaries of 80's tape music genre e.g. Brume or even Hands to. Emerge does it is introvertive, minimalistic, rugged way just like the best representatives of expermiental post industrial home made music did it - in his own rhythmical and repetitive way.
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VITAL WEEKLY
... This is my first encounter with the oddly named Guiguisuisui, a duo of " sound and performance. Man and woman, East and West, past and future", combining some weird influences together. There is 'Darker Shade Of Black', with a drum machine, guitar and a female voice; a pretty neat rocking song, followed by 'Electric Ocean', a drone affair with humming voices. The last track is a cover of Bob Dylan's 'It's All Over Now, Baby Blue', which according to the cover features Trevor Gaymer, who I think must be the vocalist here, and whose voice sounds very much like Rod Stewart. Guided by a simple pulse and a distorted organ, this is certainly a very nice song, the best and surprising song in this weekly.
On the other side, we find Emerge, who is these days very active when it comes to playing live, almost a constant touring machine and less interested in releasing stuff. Armed with his apparatus, mostly sampling devices and electronics, Emerge samples whatever is available and creates collages with these sounds. All of this in the best tradition of musique concrete, even when his results are mostly different. There is a pretty straight forward sampling going on, looping his sound material and slowly altering these sounds with the sound effects at his disposal, and along adding maybe a few different ones. The material here could really be anything as it is no longer clear what it was. I was thinking of breaking ice, but I might be wrong. There is a grande noise finale, which was thing Emerge did in the past, but a gentle takedown of sounds, a thing of growing mastering the technique to play with this material in animprovised setting. This I thought was a great release, quite rightly available on cassette.
(FdW)
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BAD ALCHEMY
Enchanted Garden (Attenuation Effect 1017, C-32) entstand live am 6.1.18 @ Alte Bäckerei in Augsburg, mit einerseits 'Soundscaped', gestaltet von GUIGUISUISUI aus Beijing. Das sind Guigui aka King Necro & Nan Guazi alias Shu Shu, die Pumpkin Queen. Die beiden haben schon früh den dreimal schwarzen Kater beschworen ('Black Cat'), die Nasen in "Black Books" gesteckt, sind mit dem Mond über Zombie-Land per Du und reimen Last Bloom auf Doom. Von ihrem frühen Faible für Psychobilly ist nicht nur das Instrumentarium geblieben - Guitar, Bass, Vocals, der Schattenwurf dunkler Synthiewellen. Damit tauchen sie ein in 'Darker Shade of Black' und 'Electric Ocean', Susu wechselt zwischen Kundalini Chant und Dark-Space-Whispering und lädt ein zu einem Sonnenbad unter der schwarzen Sonne, die mit Phantomtrompeten um sich strahlt. Aber es zieht ein Gewitter auf zu dräunenden Doomfrequenzen, und sie wispert und hexenzüngelt dazu Zaubersprüche vor dem dunkel grollenden Horizont. Dann beizt sich einer (Trevor Gaymer?) die Zunge mit Nero die Seppia, um damit das nobelpreiswürdige 'It's All Over Now, Baby Blue' zu raunen, zu zirpendem Sound wie von einer Sho, rhythmisch tropfendem Beat und blutergussblauer Gitarre. Das Extro ist ein minutenlanges katastrophisches Dröhnen. EMERGE, der den beiden schon einen 'The Tower'-Remix auf "Nekroma" (2017) fertigte, gestaltet andererseits das lavabröckelige 'Lapillus'. Er greift dafür grollig raue und rubbelige Sounds auf und lässt sie wie submarin changieren und kaskadieren zu einem hinkenden Tropfen oder Klopfen. Obwohl so gut wie alles daran unklar bleibt, ist die Anmutung doch speläologisch und lässt den Boden unter den Füßen ungut arbeiten. Für empfindliche Gemüter wird da womöglich - denn so manche Einbildungskraft erzittert ja mit jedem rauschenden Blatt - gar eine Unterwelt suggeriert, wo Cthulhus Brut überdauert oder ein Balrog haust. Wobei mich an Emerge gerade das reizt, dass er die Katze nicht aus dem Sack lässt, ob er da Schauermärchen munkelt, oder einfach bloß höhlen- oder tiefseeforscherische Lauschangriffe offeriert.
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