GURZUNZ
A glorious stuttering no-rules, majestic hullaballoo of meandering, uplifting, chaotic, triumphant, limping, experimental, improvised jazz'n'roll
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Mantle
The knees of our trousers are wet. Too much time spent praying for peace in puddles. We need a waterproof GuRzUnZ Mantle
Smell the Dark Perfume
According to Rooftop Ron, this GuRzUnz improvisation is a "Cheeky, treacle drenched, backwards taxi-ride through the menacing Moldavite swamps of Planet Klennaar"
Same Time Every Day (part 1)
Part 1 of a 37 minute GuRzUnZ improvisation recorded in January 2011. Guitars & bass by Mick Clack, drums by Dale Marshall, keyboards by Paul Gibbon
Same Time Every Day (part 2)
Part 2 of a 37 minute GuRzUnZ improvisation recorded in January 2011. Guitars & bass by Mick Clack, drums by Dale Marshall, keyboards by Paul Gibbon
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Tra la, tra la...Disobedient drums and grimacing overdriven guitars meander and stutter undisciplined through the sprawling, contemplative, free-flow GURZUNZ compositions. Hey nonny-nonny....Dreamy distorted sustain. Hurrah! rebellious floods of tangled pulsing eggy discord peppered with yapping mongrel percussion. Huzzah! Moody, jarring, drifting,. Oh Yay! Oh Yay! Intriguing, depressing, uplifting. Yarambah! Bile inducing, ecstatic, noose tightening, trouser bulging, wallet-emptying, nose-blowing, foot-tapping noise dirt. Yaow-yaowdah!Band/artist history
Mick Clack and Dale Marshall have played in and out of bands in the Oxford area for the past 150 years or so. eg The Earwigs, Bodily Functions, Cabasa, Flat Hill House Band, Yelford Allstars, , Kites A-Z, The Worried Men, , , Wheatfields, to name but twelve. A burning passion for improvised music and a constant grinding battle to keep the needle of their 'Acme' depression meters from flickering into the red keeps the GURZUNZ churning out their abominable instrumental audio adventures.
Dale and Mick also rear their ugly heads in an experimental/comedy/pop recording project called 'NIGE and TREV' who were voted winners in no less than THREE categories in the ....BEST ARTIST, BEST COMPOSER and BEST SONG for which features the drumming talents of the winner of the 2006 IOMA BEST DRUMMER Award.... Mr.Dale Marshall. Click on the yellow Soundclick logo and the Mixposure banner below to visit NIGE & TREV'S fun-packed websites which feature over 20 surreal songs - many of them free to download...
Click on the Soundclick logo below to visit FRANK FISH and the FINS' website...Have you performed in front of an audience?Far too depressed/happy/busy/deaf/sober/nervous/arrogant/
rich/obsessed with pretty girls
Your musical influences
Miles Davis
T.C. Lethbridge
Grateful Dead
Jimi Hendrix
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Salvador Dali
Clark Hutchinson
Mountain
Captain Beefheart
Yves Tanguy
Jeff Beck
Patto
John Peel
King Crimson
Chicago Transit Authority
Birthday Party
Johnny Cash
Mothers of Invention
Art Ensemble of Chicago
The Troggs Tape
Rage Against the Machine
Mario Lanza
XTC
Lord Buckley
John Mclaughlin
Little Feat
Vern Gosdin
Graham Parker
Tommy Cooper
Pure Prairie League
Tower Of Power
CreamWhat equipment do you use?
A Steed Sword Stick, A Johnny-Seven Gun, A plastic Beatles wig, a Corgi 007 die-cast Aston Martin, and a silk World Cup Willie tie.Anything else?
We're going to build two big sculptures on the GURZUNZ back lawn. The first one is the word
FLEXIBILITY made out of really rigid material. The second one is the word RIGID
which, naturally, will be constructed from a highly flexible medium. We've also got plans for a 40 foot high display of the word INVISIBLE which will be positioned somewhere where everybody can see it.
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This is creative improvisation at it's very best. I swear these Oxford boys tune in to the vibration of each other's souls! If you only ever listen to one GuRzUnZ track then, I suggest 'Same Time Every Day'. For me, it has EVERYTHING... ...darkness, light, tension, beauty, horror, hope, fear, love, death, birth, calmness, laughter, tears, oneness...the GuRzUnZ drift and stagger seamlessly in and out of different musical moods taking the listener with them on their fearless rule-free journey. I would love to hear all 5 parts as one continuous composition....genius lads! Sheer genius!!!5-stars from me!! Thank you :)
Hurrah! Utterly, utterly tremendous! Well done lads - this surely is the future of jazz'n'roll. A wriggling, grinning audiophonic victory. It shouts "Unpeel me!" at every banana in the world. I'm in heaven...thank you X
Another great effort on the rooftops. Love this style of music...Must come back to listen to more later. Cheers
Another exhilarating roller-coaster musical adventure from those mischevious Oxford imps of improvisation...the GURZUNZ. This original 37 minute composition has been edited into 5 shorter parts for the purposes of online hosting and although personally, I would prefer to listen to the unedited 37 minute improvisation - each of these 5 parts work extremely well as individual pieces. It goes without saying that the musicianship here is consistently superb. Dale Marshall's inventive use of the various Roland 'V drums' kit sounds is tasteful, humorous and sickeningly skilful. Paul Gibbon's fast'n'fluid Hammond lines just ooze melody over Mick Clack's dark, dense and spiky Stratocaster patterns and Clack's overdubbed bass part is a joy to behold. I'll be listening to this regulary....same time every day. I'd give it 6 stars if I could! Brilliant lads, just brilliant!!!
I've given this composition 5 screaming stars for lyrics and vocals even though it's an instrumental. I swear I can hear the voice of a grinning angel throughout this gargantuan GuRzUnZ improvisation. Mick Clack's stutteringly triumphant guitar retchings sound like a drunken mulletted heckler at a Corndolly 'After The Shallows' gig in the 1970s while Dale Marshall's rebellious'n' billious tub thumping brings to mind a jumping jack ignited in a small copse on Wood Farm called 'Rock Edge'. This is the direction Simon Cowell should be moving in, no question about it. If the Large Hadron Collider sucks us all into a black hole this weekend, I want to go listening to 'Amoeba's Ego' and clutching a GuRzUnZ quadruple live scratch'n'sniff concept album to my tattooed bosom. Hurrah!
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