Gwei-Lo

Gwei-Lo Artist: Gwei-Lo
Label: Instinct Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 720841700128
EAN: 0720841700128
ASIN: B000059LF2


Release Date: 2001-03-13

Gwei-Lo


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Tracks:

  1. U.R.R
  2. 12
  3. Cellsong
  4. Annoy
  5. Homework
  6. Corona
  7. Don't Try (Hank)

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars collect it before it's collectible.......2007-02-02

With touchstones ranging from Mogwai to Tristeza, Gwei Lo's lone release should not be permitted to sink into obscurity. It's truly great instrumental "post" rock (a term that always conjures up Tortoise for me... another band that Gwei Lo's sound references). If your listening inclinations lead you toward any of these bands, or towards Godspeed You Black Emperor or Japancakes, you will very likely enjoy Gwei Lo.

4 out of 5 stars still great years after Al left us.......2004-01-20

When Bella Union offered its website visitors a chance to download the song Annoy from Gwei-lo's then forthcoming debut album, the buzz was on this young ensemble and their demo that hooked musical gurus Robin Guthrie and Simon Raymonde on its first listen. I too was hooked and for months eagerly awaited the cd's release.

Then news of Al's tragic death came and I was just as devastated as Gwei-lo's loyal fans. But to be honest with you, it wasn't the tragedy that made me buy this cd, it was the music. Here is a fresh production, completely instrumental and as skillful as it is unique.

Gwei-lo's debut was also the debut of Bella Union's Series 7 (seven songs each by seven artists). If only there were more than seven songs! My favorites include Cellsong, Annoy, and Corona. The songs have a definite flow and symmetry to them that I find more dynamic than other comparable bands.

Buy this cd and you won't be disappointed. But promise me you'll buy it not just for Al but for the spirit of musicians who play for the love of good music.

3 out of 5 stars

Music Album:

  1. Hits ~ Vanilla Fudge & Iron Butterfly
  2. Raised Toward ~ Drunk
  3. While My Guitar Gently Weeps V.2 ~ Various Artists
  4. In a Rut ~ Ruts
  5. Crown ~ Axe
  6. Now and Them ~ Them
  7. Average White Band ~ Average White Band
  8. All You Need Is Hate ~ Delgados
  9. Mark Hollis ~ Mark Hollis
  10. It Goes Without Saying ~ Dum Dums

Music Album

Music Album

Music CD

Rescue/Hero ~ Clarence Clemons & The Red Bank Rockers

Falling in Love with Paul Desmond ~ Paul Desmond

Best of Jazz, Vol. 3 ~ Various Artists

Self Portrait ~ Carmen Lundy

Dish It Up

Milton and Gil ~ Gilberto Gil & Milton Nascimento

Abanicos Y Vitrales Danzones Antologicos ~ Frank Emilio Flynn & Juan Jose Suarez

Divas Do Brasil ~ Various Artists

Nonostante Tutto ~ Dirotta Su Cuba

Older But No Wiser ~ The Clancy Brothers