(Les Disques Blasphematoires du Palatin)

How does one man jamming with himself sound? GR & Full-Blown Expansion is the incarnation of one Gregory Raimo’s various alter egos come together for a psychedelic freak out in the vein of Ash Ra Tempel, performed with Neu!’s proto-punk crudeness, and dragged through a gallery of effects, manipulated beyond musical recognition. I ought to weave in some clever reference to Pessoa’s toying around with heteronyms, interacting with each other and employed to express different aspects of their author’s emotions, but this French one-man-band is way too acid-drenched to even consider not being one, if it’s just one with, well, one-self. And falling apart, over and over again, throughout the 43 mins of this ridiculously limited vinyl only release. 

Who be he, this GR? He’s the French singer and guitarist in Gunslingers, previously rave-reviewed here in LowCut, he’s wont to fool around with old organs, and he knows enough about drums to completely fuck up anything approaching a steady beat, even though opener “Descent Along the An-Ti-Fohn-Nul” reminds me of this mid-90’s UK group The Invisible Pair of Hands, if it that serves as a reference to anyone out there? No? Thought so.

This is free-rock anyway, it’s willfully obscure, esoterically so, should appeal to all the elitists that have no time for LowCut anyway, even if the mere 300 copies that were printed on white vinyl ought to be long sold out by now.

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If you dig: Swell Maps, Ash Ra Tempel, Neu!