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Yes, as a result of Ankst splitting into two parts some years ago and most of the back catalogue being unavailable since then. Don't know a concrete release date but this has been in the works for a good year or so

― DJ Mencap0))), Thursday, 2 September 2004 09:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Thanks for the overview DL!

I should note that my renewed interest in GZM was inspired by realising that every time I was disappointed by some highly rated prog/psych/folk album it was because I wished it was more like Barafundle.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 2 September 2004 23:36 (nineteen years ago) link

yair - more people should be making music like the gorkys. more loopiness. more crazy instruments. less posturing. chzthxgnight.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 2 September 2004 23:51 (nineteen years ago) link

I've thought about your months somre more, and they really are spot on, except How I Long To Feel That Summer In My Heart, which isn't really a summer album at all, I don't think. I associate it most with driving around an often chilly Italy in April with friends, because that's when we listened to it most. But objectively, I think it's all seasons in one.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 3 September 2004 00:05 (nineteen years ago) link

yeh - guess so. i think i bought it in october, which is fitting i guess. it reminds me of a really good time of my life at uni when everything seemed to be finally piecing together.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 3 September 2004 00:10 (nineteen years ago) link

It's can sound sad if you're sad and happy if you're happy. 'Dead Aid' is the only unremittingly dour song.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 3 September 2004 00:14 (nineteen years ago) link

God, I love that album.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 3 September 2004 00:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Walking home at 8am after a hard day's night, watching the sun rise over my town with "Let Those Blue Skies" playing.

PERFECT!

― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 4 September 2004 06:45 (nineteen years ago) link

six months pass...

There's some wonderful archival stuff being showcased on the official Gorky's site right now.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 00:00 (nineteen years ago) link

I swear I danced around the room when I read that the Ankst albums were to be re-issued. That was in January 2003.

Introducing Gorky's Zygotic Mynci is one of the best compilations I have ever heard. So perfectly sequenced that it's hard to believe the songs weren't actually recorded for this end. Search that.

― Deluxe (Damian), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 10:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Euros and Richard James both have solo albums coming out at some unspecified point in the future, incidentally

― DJ Mencap0))), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 10:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Patio Song is a goose bumper...

― Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 11:27 (nineteen years ago) link

I used to know a guy who went to school with Euros - but he wasn't called Euros then

― Bad Day At Dadrock (Dada), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 11:45 (nineteen years ago) link

What was his name then?

― Deluxe (Damian), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 12:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Richard? I think? Can't remember. An English name tho.

― Bad Day At Dadrock (Dada), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 12:05 (nineteen years ago) link

It is very good that archive thing. Well spotted, N.

They were very good at that Peel thing.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 12:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Ha ha, another Gorky's related story. Years ago, two friends of mine were in London to attend some sort of 20th Anniversary of Gong gig or festival or sumthin' (don't ask) and they met this really young and enthusiastic Welsh guy - Euros Childs! He was about 16 or 17 then and he mentioned he was in a band and he kept in touch - so I got to go to a few their gigs for free and hang about with the band. Unfortunately, I didn't really like them that much.

― Bad Day At Dadrock (Dada), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 12:13 (nineteen years ago) link

... but they were really good live and I used to like "Barafundle" a lot

― Bad Day At Dadrock (Dada), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 12:15 (nineteen years ago) link

nine months pass...

I listen to Where Does Yer Go Now? and then Strange Magic by ELO and then 'Til I Die by the Beach Boys and it all makes sense in a beautiful and melancholy way.

― Billy Pilgrim (Billy Pilgrim), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 20:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Euros Childs's new album isn't very good. :(

― enjoy bell woods, Wednesday, 11 January 2006 23:32 (eighteen years ago) link

how could that be true? is it better than the infinity chimps?

― keyth (keyth), Thursday, 12 January 2006 00:26 (eighteen years ago) link

three months pass...

Oh I wish they would fucking hurry up and re-issue those first three albums. They seem to keep disappearing from release schedules - once a couple of years ago, and again within the last month or so. Amazon says "not yet published". What is the fucking delay, really?

― Lotta Continua (Damian), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:02 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't know a single person who doesn't like "Fresher Than The Sweetness In Water."

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link

i'd forgotten he had a solo album. i feel ashamed.

― keyth (keyth), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 22:15 (eighteen years ago) link

are GZM the secret precursors to the current psych-folk revival...? when they really started to develop that side of their sound, there was hardly anybody else doing it (that I knew of anyway). Now there's scads of twee folkies running around.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 22:20 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Gorky's announce split!

Gorkys Zygotic Mynci have decided to call it a day and split up.

Richard, Megan, Euros and Pete would like to thank everyone who came to the gigs and bought the records over the years. The re-issues of the first three Gorkys albums - Patio, Tatay, and Bwyd Time - will go ahead as planned and will be released before late 2006.

:-(

This is shit news, first band break up I've been upset about in ages!

And slightly bizarrely, it's currently the number 2 story on the BBC online entertainment news page. Hmm.

― JimD (JimD), Friday, 26 May 2006 23:36 (seventeen years ago) link

RIP I guess, though honestly I've had trouble getting into anything of theirs over the past few years -- pleasant but not deathless. Maybe I just need to relisten to it! But good on them, at least, for drawing a line under it all.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 27 May 2006 00:18 (seventeen years ago) link

i thought they would be content to be an obscure gem for a long time. but i was wrong. very sad. i should probably get the solo record then. scarlet's well share some common ground with them and their new album is splendid, i will transfer my affections. dickon edwards even wrote a song for this one and it's lovely.

― keyth (keyth), Saturday, 27 May 2006 02:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Ah. well if I was going to recommed a gorky replacement band, I'd suggest people give Sheffield's lovely Champion Kickboxer a try. There's a couple of very nice mp3s available a click beyond that link.

― JimD (JimD), Saturday, 27 May 2006 08:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I assumed the split had already happened and that the solo album was tacit confirmation of the fact. It's been hard to know precisely what's been going on in Gorky world for the last number of years, so hearing that the story was on the BBC news site is just odd. Roll on those re-issue dates...

― LC (Damian), Saturday, 27 May 2006 11:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Was enivtable, but still really really sad. One of the best British bands of the last decade.

― mynci madness, Sunday, 28 May 2006 22:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Man, I wish I still had my copies of Introducing and Barafundle. How quickly those went out of print in the US. I'll have to jump on these import reissues and go from there. I still have the excellent Blue Trees EP, at least.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 28 May 2006 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Introducing is out of print, but I managed to chase up a copy on eBay, relatively cheaply. There's nothing on it that won't be otherwise available come the re-issue dates, but as a standalone album it's quite perfect in its own way, as I'm sure I have said three times already.

― LC (Damian), Sunday, 28 May 2006 23:16 (seventeen years ago) link

A good group, I think.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 06:54 (seventeen years ago) link

bummer, although the last album was a bit weak on the ground. apart from that one they were a consistent classic band.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 08:11 (seventeen years ago) link

you'd think they would be reaping crazy respect from the recent US-freak-folk revival. GZM had turned to Pentangle/Vashti Bunyan/Incredible String Band years before any of this recent beardo crop had learned an open tuning.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 21:43 (seventeen years ago) link

They would have gone down well at a Terrastock, I figure.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link

(altho I gotta say when they went all quiet and folky that's when my interest started to flag - Spanish Dance Troupe was the last one I really loved. RIP nonetheless! Lotsa great tunes)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link

GZM had turned to Pentangle/Vashti Bunyan/Incredible String Band years before any of this recent beardo crop had learned an open tuning.

Actually, Spinal Tap was at the forefront.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link

as always.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Sad to hear but I guess they were sort of running out of gas on the last album. Still, they have a amazing, consistent back catalog, and I *always* favored them over Super Furry Animals.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Freak. I mean, oh. (I rate 'em equal.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 23:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I did get my fair share of slack!

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 01:51 (seventeen years ago) link

two years pass...

"I say: oren, mefus a chadno!"

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 1 April 2009 16:46 (fifteen years ago) link

We were listening to something the other day (not sure what it was exactly) from when they were really really young where one of their dads comes in at the end of a song and yells at them for the noise. It was great.

― ENBB, Wednesday, 1 April 2009 16:55 (fifteen years ago) link

Hahaha, I'm listening to that very collection (Patio) and waiting for that moment.

"Keep the noise DOWN."

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 1 April 2009 16:56 (fifteen years ago) link

That's it! It's so funny.

― ENBB, Wednesday, 1 April 2009 17:00 (fifteen years ago) link

"That's your last warning, it does not need to be that loud. Especially the bass!"

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 1 April 2009 17:01 (fifteen years ago) link

Hahaha, yes! Damn noisy bass guitars.

― ENBB, Wednesday, 1 April 2009 17:04 (fifteen years ago) link

That's kinda awesome.. I wanna hear.

― billstevejim, Wednesday, 1 April 2009 17:17 (fifteen years ago) link

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Yeah, I always found that unusual too, given that he didn't leave the band until after the LP was completed... it's hard to say what happened there. Either he was going through a dry spell as a songwriter, or he had songs and the band didn't record them for whatever reason - either they didn't fit, or he'd already thought about doing solo stuff. It's hard to say, because not much has really been said about Lawrence's departure.

― ...so music and chicken have become intertwined (Turrican), Friday, 14 April 2017 17:09 (seven years ago) link

see, SDT is overall a 'weirder' album than Gorky 5 so the idea that he was the experimental guy sdoesnt really float

― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Friday, 14 April 2017 17:59 (seven years ago) link

and his stuff on Gorky 5 is about the most straightforward he ever did

― PaulTMA, Sunday, 16 April 2017 18:02 (seven years ago) link

I listened to Sleep/Holiday recently because of this thread - haven't listened to it for years, but was surprised to find I only dislike 3 songs on it.

― ...so music and chicken have become intertwined (Turrican), Sunday, 16 April 2017 19:53 (seven years ago) link

seven months pass...

Another year, another substandard Euros Childs album. Anyone listen to 'House Arrest' yet?

― afriendlypioneer, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 16:52 (six years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNI0WFeiZHI

*sigh*

― afriendlypioneer, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 16:53 (six years ago) link

five years pass...

Those Gorkys albums still remain painfully unaffordable and practically non-existent in LP form. Who can fix this? Also Richard James put out a moody instrumental (synth?) album which I scanned through on bandcamp.

― slightlydazed, Thursday, 13 July 2023 06:04 (nine months ago) link

It's near criminal that you can't hear Bwyd Time anywhere other than YouTube. I'd love a reissue

― Stomp Jomperson (dog latin), Thursday, 13 July 2023 08:31 (nine months ago) link

I wonder if there'd be lots of interesting unreleased stuff that could be used for expanded versions. Euros has certainly be very prolific as a solo artist.

― brain (krakow), Saturday, 15 July 2023 12:39 (nine months ago) link

*been very prolific

― brain (krakow), Saturday, 15 July 2023 12:40 (nine months ago) link

i’ve loved a lot of those Euros albums - his recent all covers album was especially good. It’s just prohibitively expensive to order the LPs in the states.

― slightlydazed, Tuesday, 18 July 2023 07:06 (nine months ago) link

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