Whooa! It’s a fucking good band – I said during the listening to the recordings, despite I am not a big fan of math rock. And finally it turned up that two bands’ songs was mixed up in my player, the Ukrainian Gravitsapa, and the Italian Astolfo Sulla Luna (Astolfo on the Moon).

Astolfo plays quantum mechanic rock which is based on uncertainty principle under strong influence of literature. „Obnoxious, antiseptic, mathematician, restless, unreal, evil, tender.” Synthesize the reality and then spit it out with delay distortions. Anyway „Astolfo hates you. But basically, it is hated by everyone…” And he has a horn, so loud that his all enemies to flee in terror when it sounds.

Astolfo is one of the 12 paladins of Charlemagne, went to the Moon on Elijah’s chariot of fire to search his friend Orlando’s wit. Because on the Moon „is wonderfully stored / Whatever on our earth below we lose. / Collected there are all things whatsoe’er, / Lost through time, chance, or our own folly, here.” And there Astolfo of course found Orlando’s wit in a bottle – by poem of Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533).

But chariot of fire does not run too often, so if we want to travel to the Moon because for example do not find our mental balance, we maybe can use a Pepelats interplanetary spacecraft. And it has an important component which allows intergalactic travel: Gravitsapa. From which this Ukrainian math rock band has got his name.

„Musicians do not expect to find understanding on Earth, so they are trying to gain spiritual experience and create music as divinities for new audiences of spiritual connoisseurs of inadequate.” They are constantly compared with King Crimson, which band was unknown for them, and mainly inspired by film directors: by sincerity of Jodorowsky (Chilean scholar in comparative religion, playwright, director, producer, composer, actor, mime, comic book writer, tarot reader, historian and psychotherapist), craziness of Lynch, atmospheric of Sokurov (Russian), conceptuality of Yevgeny Yufit (necrorealist Russian) and the monotony of Hungarian Béla Tarr. And Pepelats comes from a Soviet sci-fi black comedy Kin-Dza-Dza!

When I listened to them two bands came to my mind: the  proto math rock hardcore jazz Victim’s Family, and the Dutch jazz punk band Morzelpronk.

Astolfo Sulla Luna – Ψ² CD + digital album. (Vinyl version from the band) &

Gravitsapa – Radio Free Vulgata digital album (It contains two EPs from 2013)

released by Australian label TENZENMEN

It’s one of the best European garage rock/punk labels. The Italian label is focusing limited edition 7″ vinyls. Here is the first load in 2016

GB 112 – MILK LINES 7″ single. 250 copies with three different covers.

Band of Jeff Clarke and his wife. Jeff is known from Demons Claws and Hellshovel, Emily is the founder of Bum’s Trading Zone, a flea market where the only rule: do not use money. Debut album has been released last year fall on In The Red Records. Tags on their Bandcamp page (where you can download some demos songs free): country experimental folk country psychedelic rock. (Canada)

GB 113 – SICK THOUGHTS / BLACK PANTIES split 7″ EP. 300 copies.

Apropos of a previous GBB release RNR666 wrote about Sick Thoughts: „Lo-fi raw garage punk. As if the LiveFastDie and the Outdoorsmen would play at the same time. Sometimes like a lo-fi garage Motörhead.”  The Black Panties are similar. The song, Shoot Me in My Head is brilliant, the best Sick Thoughts track what I have ever heard. Sick Thoughts euro tour march 2016!!! (They are from US)

GB 114 – ANDY HUMAN and The REPTOIDS – Sarcastic – 7″ EP. 250 copies with three different covers.

Pop like Devo, Roxy Music, Buzzcocks, X-Ray Spex. Debut album in early 2015 by SS Records. (US)

GB 115 – NO LIMIT 7″ single. 250 copies with three different covers.

Play Jake and Jeff !!! Jake play also Ausmuteants , Frowning Clouds, Hierophants (all was released by GBB) and Jeff in School Damage, Chugga and the Fuckheads. (Australia)

GB 116 – UFUX – III – 7″ single. 250 copies with three different covers.

UFUX is Christopher Ilth’s new band. He was in Functional Blackouts and Daily Void, and play hc-punk. As montage artist he said in an interview: „I gravitated towards Dada & Surrealism through the pioneers of the punk movement in the 70’s. Those art movements shared individuality, autonomy, rebellion. However, punk, while having a visual side through fashion, record sleeves & fliers, was mainly about music. Dada & Surrealism was not only a visual art movement, but was also a revolt of everyday life with manifestos, pranks, and revolution that made a statement against the establishment and reason.” (US)

Be fast if you want one or all of them!

You can find some free Goodbye Boozy releases from the previous years here. For example: Mikal Cronin, Outdoorsmen, Ty Segall, Useless Eaters, BBQ (Mark Sultan), River City Tainlines, King Khan, etc. If you can’t see the download link, seek it with your cursor below the “download:”

RNR666 GOODBYE BOOZY INTERVIEW

After Footscray and Lower Plenty now you can get acquainted another suburb of Melbourne, Doncaster, by Dreamin’ Wild.  Doors influenced easy Aussie psychedelic suburban pop or „what ever you want to call it”

from forthcoming 7″ by Moontown Records

Hey dudes,

We’re an abrasive psych group. We’ve just released our second EP titled Gold Mine, Gold Yours. We’re a three piece from Melbourne, Australia and this EP

will form a larger, more experimental body of work that will be released as a 10 inch late 2015.

The Melbourne based New Zealander Lynton Denovan’ works (Satanic Rockers, Sacred Product) always come the early Butthole Surfers to my mind. The Encounter Group is his new band

We like to rock and Satan – interview with Lynton on RNR666

Old Mate, another shitty Aussie band with a bunch of musicians, Canned Heat, Syd Barret, Devo and Ween covers, originally was a solo project of Pat Telfer from Bitch Prefect (Bedroom Suck Records), suburban blues, spleen and kangaroo boxing in false flat

Truth Boy

from the album It Is What It Is on SDZ Records (France)

AUSMUTEANTS

is an Aussie synth punk band, such big international labels want them as: Goner, Goodbye Boozy and Total Punk

We’re Cops

from the album Order of Operation on Goner (US) and Aarght Records (Aus)

Aussie drums’n’guitar punk duo Gooch Palms‘ self-describe: equal parts GG Allin, Iggy Pop, Roy Orbison and Olivia Newton John (circa Let’s Get Physical era). First single from the double A-side 7”

to be released on Urinal Cake Records (US) before the year is out.

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Silver Apples Trans Upper Egypt

album on Monofonus (US)

Your Heaven, Your Rules by Tasmanian poet Peter Escott from Native Cats (The Fall/Suicide-like minimal wave bass/synth duo).  He plays piano and operates the most user friendly electronics.

It’s taken from his solo album The Long O on Bedroom Suck Records (Aus)

Aussie psychedelic indie garage rock band Blank Realm shares a free bootleg from their recent Brisbane’s show.

Easy Aussie pop music by Hierophants, their single will be released on such great garage rock and punk labels as Goner (US), Goodbye Boozy (I) and Anti-Fade Records

The members also are in Ausmutenats (synth-punk) and Frowning Clouds (psychedelic garage folk rock)

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Most fashionable garage rock from the end of the 60s. I can’t compare them to no one, so much not, that I have successfully discovered the Sex Pistols, the Clash, even the Joy Division in their music, but they haven’t to do with these, because they rather tell about Chuck Berry, John Lee Hooker, Rolling Stones or Jesus & Mary Chain (!?), but let’s say, you mix the Stooges with Black Lips, grate a Spanish male singer with twang in it, and sprinkle lot of vocals on it. This is the essence of Davila 666 from Puerto Rico. I have written it when they played in RNR666 Party in Budapest some years ago. Posthumous single collection on LP, CD and cassette on Burger Records (US)

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