GASTR DEL SOL - Upgrade & Afterlife DLP Minimal while Nick Drake also recorded

while Nick Drake also recorded it privately

Basically the premise is that Cam Deas twiddles around on the guitar while Jack messes the whole thing up with tape manipulations

pushing at the edges of the map into unexplored territory: Here be monster jams

suspended in memory and distilled in time

Jesus Lizard and more

GASTR DEL SOL - Upgrade & Afterlife DLP Minimal while Nick Drake also recordedWay back when, Upgrade & Afterlife was the umpteenth release from the individual and collective forces of David Grubbs (known then for Bastro, The Red Krayola, Codeine, Squirrel Bait) and Jim O"Rourke (known for O"Rourke), whose further history has since numbered at least another umpteen or so essential listens. What is it though, wrapped up in delectable sonic amber here, that defines this Upgrade? To be sure, we hear these young men dashing through