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Philip Gayle - Sunrise Crazy
CD (Utsunomiya, Japan)



1. It Is an Animal
2. Half Life
3. Funny Dream Trampoline
4. Soyo Soyo
5. Wetty Shadow
6. Oh Wow
7. I Don’t Love Me Anymore
8. John Doe #2
9. Fakkunko
10. Rats With Wings >
11. Benefits Without Friends
12. Melon Prod
13. Drink of Grief
14. Mass Whole
15. The Speed of Shadows >
16. Mountaintop Backwash >
17. Fuuchan Brocken Spectre >
18. Heartbeat Shakes The Flower > Setsunai Yuki
19. Mokutou

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PG: banjo, bass, cello, acoustic guitars, mandolin, mouth harp, percussion, piano, recorder, Taishogoto, toy piano, voice, etc.

Special guests:
Fuuchan: vocals on #1, #2, #4,, #7, #9, #10, #11, #13, #14, #17, #18, #19
Hana Fujino: vocals on #1
Okaka: vocals on #1, #4, #6, #9, #15
Omusubisan: vocals on #1, #9, #10
Shogo Oshima: alto saxophone on #9 and bass clarinet on #18

Reviews:
(STNT) Il y a quelque chose dans ce disque de naïf que j'aime et qui me rappelle le travail de Christophe Petchanatz dans KLIMPEREI. Les samples en boucle, les voix pitchées, les ambiances enfantines, Philip GAYLE est joueur et j'aime bien çà. Mais il n'y a pas que çà dans ce 'sunrise crazy', on entre dans un lieu étonnant où se côtoient autant des araignées qui jouent du free jazz que des enfants fous qui se prennent pour des freaks et qui tapent partout. Tod Browning aurait été jaloux. Le dénommé Fuuchan accompagne notre guitariste à la voix sur 12 morceaux. Les sons sont farfelus, tout est farfelu et la musique me fait rire. J'ai même été surpris de ce chouette agencement de samples et de ce gros travail de montage. Philip GAYLE est d'abord guitariste, de longue date, il vit au Japon et son premier disque est daté de 1997. D'après ce que je lis dans la bio, son acolyte au chant Fuuchan est apparemment décédé d'une maladie en 2024 et ce disque lui est dédié. Gloups. Philip GAYLE possède un esprit rieur et sa musique parlera autant aux fans des BUTTHOLE SURFERS qu'aux mordus des sonorités avant-gardistes façon Family Vineyard (un des nombreux labels qui l'hébergent.) Encore une bonne surprise chez Public Eyesore (San Francisco) pour tous les amateurs de collage et de guitare expérimentale. - Valery John Klebar

(Bad Alchemy) PHILIP GAYLE, zuvor schon auf Eyesore publik mit „Mam­moth Flower“, kehrt wieder mit Sunrise Crazy (pe162). Als ein an sich gelernter Gitarrist mit, schon seit den 90ern, guten Connections nach Japan. Hier schichtete er in den Beat Club Studios in Utsunomiya Banjo, Bass, Cello, Man­dolin, Acoustic Guitars, Mouth Harp, Percussion, Piano, Recorder, Taishogoto, Toy Piano und Voices, insbesondere die feline von Fuuchan. Ihrem Andenken und dem von Susan Alcorn und Steve Dalachinsky ist der Sonnenauf­gang gewidmet. Auch hier gibt es Miniaturen von unter 1, unter 2 Minuten, aber auch das elegisch geharfte 'Fuuchan Brocken Spectre' mit 07:23 und 'Heartbeat Shakes The Flower > Setsunai Yuki', 10:19 mit tristem Piano und Bass­klarinette als Totenklage für eine Katze. Gayle könnte durchwegs mit lyrischem Saitenspiel und rührendem Fee­ling bestechen. Doch genau das will er mit vulgären und animalischen Comic-Lauten sabotieren. Mit Sounds aus Looney Tunes und Animes, geloopter Exotica und freaki­schem 'Humor' entstehen Stripsodies aus lauter ordinären V-Effekten, aus nervigem 'Oh Wow' und Fuuchans Katz-Miau. Mit 'Fakkunko' als Jazzcore-Brainfuck mit wildem Klavier und kirrendem Saxophon oder mit Smegma-Spirit. Als seltsame Begegnung von US-Underground und Crazy Japan auf einem Furzkissen. Als könnte Gayle in seiner Trauer die Realität nur als Irrwitz spiegeln. - Rigo Dittmann

(Vital Weekly) Back in Vital Weekly 1408, I reviewed a CD by Philip Gayle, after a long silence. These days, Gayle lives in Utsunomiya, Japan, and there is vocal help from local musicians, such as Fuuchan, Hana Fujino, Okaka, and Omusubisan. At the same time, Shogo Oshima plays the alto saxophone and bass clarinet separately on two pieces. Gayle plays banjo, bass, cello, acoustic guitars, mandolin, mouth harp, percussion, piano, recorder, Taishogoto, toy piano, and voice. This time, Gayle has mainly shortish tracks, even when towards the end of the release there’s a seven and ten-minute piece, which, by that, is a bit much as Gayle’s music is quite demanding, especially with all these voices, vocalisations and such, which sound funny but don’t always stay funny. There’s an aspect of chaos in Gayle’s music, which in 19 tracks, spanning 55 minutes, is quite a tour de force. Gayle loads up multiple tracks with the wildest playing of his instruments, but always the guitar being his first choice. Strumming and plucking, Gayle doesn’t seem to be using other, extended techniques to play his instruments, with delay, some chorus and reverb, and creating this rollercoaster music. The exception here is ‘Heartbeat Shakes The Flower – Setsunai Yuki’, a quiet and reflective piece of music, and the one Oshima’s alto saxophone is featured. It is placed at the end of the CD, maybe a moment for introspection? Maybe Gayle realised we could with a little break by now. All in all, this is not easy to digest, but in smaller doses, most enjoyable. - Frans De Waard


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