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World in Sound (WIS-3007)
 This is to my knowledge the second solo album by Gregory Raimo, the guitarist/singer of a French band Gunslingers. The album includes 43 minutes of pretty strange music. In the Gunslingers style, also this album was recorded with analogue four-track tape machine, and you can hear that from the home-made, a little smudgy sound. The music of Gunslingers is too fast and tangled for me and more or less just makes me nervous, but GR does work better. Gregory plays all the instruments by himself (guitar, drums, bass, organ, electronics, keyboards, vocals) and especially the drums don’t work perfectly all the time. The music is rather psychedelic and experimental. For example the first, long track ”Descent Along the An-ti-fohn-nul” brings to mind Captain Beefheart. Occasionally the album also reminds me of Faust and Can, although this is definitely not as groovy as Can. Sometimes the atmospheres also resemble the more mind-expanding experiments of the Canterbury scene. There is indeed more of the psychedelia aspect than on the Gunslinger albums and I really prefer this GR’s solo album that also has some quite slow stuff on it. This will melt your brain for sure!
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