Gravitar



Too tired to say much. If you know these guys, there won't be anything too surprising here. I've been searching for their more obscure tapes and the boxes on Enterruption for years but never got even close to being able to buy them.

There's a great interview with 2 of the band here if you want to know more. Shouldn't admit this but I never knew that Blue Sabbath Black Cheer took their name from a Gravitar song (Blue Sabbath) and that Geoff appears on some of the BSBC gear.

Gravitar were an American band who appear to be influenced by K.K. Null’s work in Zeni Geva, with similar dense walls of oppresive guitar but more expansive in it's approach. Self-proclaimed as the "world's loudest Jazz band" and described by WM. Rage as "Too noise for rock, too rock for noise...". Extreme music inspired by everything from Charlie Parker to John Zorn to the sound of breaking glass. Heavy and harsh walls of psychedelic noise!!!

1994 - Gravitar - Chinga Su Corazon [charnel music]
1995 - Gravitar - Gravitaativarravitar [charnel music]
1997 - Gravitar - Now The Road Of Knives [charnel music]
1998 - Gravitar & Universal Indians - Split (lp) [american tapes, am008]
1999 - Gravitar - Live at The Gold Dollar, Detroit 1999
1999 - Gravitar - You Must First Learn To Draw The Real [monotremata records]
2001 - Gravitar - Edifier [manifold]
2001 - Gravitar - Freedom's Just Another Word For Never Getting Paid [enterruption]
2007 - Gravitar - Trail By Fire (C48) [psychform records]

5 comments:

  1. hey man, thanks for quoting my interview... your blog is one of my faves!

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  2. No worries at all Roberto...it's a great interview...I learnt a lot from it!

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  3. hey, thanks... and if you've a chance check out my other blog: www.constantlyterrified.tumblr.com

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  4. caligari:
    wonderful.
    quoting piero scaruffi*
    john coltrane plays
    noise-rock.
    free-psychedlia?
    i don't know
    anyway gravitar are
    a monument of free music.
    listen and enjoy!
    *this man
    voted 4/10 to beatles
    and 9,5/10 to captain beefheart.
    respect.

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  5. I remember once I put songs from gravitar and sunroof! on the same CD, way back when! I think something crazy happened to me after i got the hototogisu+prurient -snail on a razor collab...turned me into noise...

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