Guapo Appurrreciation Thread

song_of_copper wrote: I'm not sure whether young master Daniel appears on 'Black One' or not - the print is small, and pseudonym-heavy by the look of it!  Ahh, the Theusz Hamtaahk zone.  It's elitist and comfy!

Speaking of Sunn O))), is there a chance I'd like them?

No he doesn't appear on Black One:

• Malefic (Xasthur)
• Wrest (Leviathan, Lurker of Chalice)
• Oren Ambarchi
• John Wiese (b*****d Noise, Sissy Spacek)
• Mathias Schneeberger
• Greg Anderson (credited as Mystik Fogg Invokator)
• Stephen O'Malley (credited as MK Ultra Blizzard, SOMA, Caveman Skillz, Taoiseach and Drone Slut)

Interesting... perhaps we're onto something here!

Or perhaps we're not.

song_of_copper wrote: James wrote: song_of_copper wrote: It's "Oh knee", I believe.  Mr O'Sullivan pronounced it thusly in that interview I posted a link to. Thanks.  I wasn't too far off... I kept saying it as "On-knee". Any idea what it means? As a matter of interest and maybe I am clutching at Marillion straws here but O'Sullivan tours with Sunn 0))) sometimes and their recent album is called Black One.  Is there any correlation between Black Oni and Black One, do you think? I have no clue what it means.  Could be an obscure plant, I guess.  Guapo and obscure plants... it's a thing.   Or something to do with opium?  (the 'black smoke'?)  Romantic poets envisioning things would also be right up their alley. But you totally read my mind there re. Black One/Black Oni.  Even the covers are quite similar. Maybe it means... everything in the cosmos is connected!!

I've not seen the Black One cover, so I didn't know that.

The Black Oni cover is great though and I think it's only on the spine of the CD version (not sure about the vinyl) that it mentions the name of the band and the album.   It's hard to make out what's on the cover of Black Oni actually.

Also, I was surprised to see a white cover for Elixirs... but that's what I love about Guapo, they surprise me with every release.

Is Daniel O'Sullivan on Black One or is it only live he performs with them?

And that's weird how we thought the same way.  Spooky!

Welcome to the Theusz Hamtaahk zone!


Edited by James - August 09 2008 at 17:13

Rocktopus wrote: song_of_copper wrote: James wrote: I think I've already said that I consider Black Oni a better soundtrack than GYBE!'s song that was used in 28 Days Later.  Imagine that scene with Black Oni Part III over it instead... it's even better! Personal preference, of course. I've not seen that movie!   But if I do, I shall.   After a very promising (maybe even fantastic) start it turns more and more idiotic. I wish I left after the first genuinely atmospheric and scary 30-40 minutes or so. I reccomend you do it.

Yep, that's how I felt too and I've seen it two or three times 'cause a good friend of mine loves the film and I've had to thus endure it more than once.

I've not seen the sequel though.

Black Oni would also work well as a soundtrack for Children of Men.

song_of_copper wrote: James wrote: I think I've already said that I consider Black Oni a better soundtrack than GYBE!'s song that was used in 28 Days Later.  Imagine that scene with Black Oni Part III over it instead... it's even better! Personal preference, of course. I've not seen that movie!   But if I do, I shall.

After a very promising (maybe even fantastic) start it turns more and more idiotic. I wish I left after the first genuinely atmospheric and scary 30-40 minutes or so. I reccomend you do it.

I think I've already said that I consider Black Oni a better soundtrack than GYBE!'s song that was used in 28 Days Later.  Imagine that scene with Black Oni Part III over it instead... it's even better!

Personal preference, of course.

And call me ignorant... but how is Oni pronounced?

I don't tend to listen to music when reading, to be honest.  I find the music distracts me from taking in the words fully.  It rarely happens the other way around, where the words distract from listening to music.

I also find I can remember music but not lyrics, if I read whilst listening.  That includes browsing the Internet whilst listening to music.

That is also why I don't listen to enough music... I don't like just listening to music whilst not doing anything else and I cannot listen to music all the time whilst doing things such as reading.

However, listening to music whilst driving always seems to work for me... it's just I don't have a CD player that works properly and some annoying has snapped off my aerial, so I cannot even listen to the radio now!


Edited by James - August 08 2008 at 17:32

So far, I'd say Black Oni was their pinnacle... I need to hear their new one more though, as I've only played it the once.

The great thing I like about Guapo is that every album is different from the previous one, yet they still sound just like Guapo!

Oh and each album is excellent too.

NaturalScience wrote: James wrote: Black Oni III = help me out of this epileptic state!  Cannot stop moving to it! This track is killing me right now.  Absolutely killing me with its awesomeness.

Yep.

The intro starts off slow and it just builds to complete and utter madness.   I was literally unable to sit still to it.

James wrote: Black Oni III = help me out of this epileptic state!  Cannot stop moving to it!

This track is killing me right now.  Absolutely killing me with its awesomeness.