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Guillaume Graux first came to our attention with his visuals when we asked him to contribute these on our festival in 2001. Later on we discovered he was also making music. At the start, he was clearly influenced by Mego/Sahko/Touch but within a couple of months this influence became less obvious throughout the introduction of guitars which makes his music a kind of haunting trip somewhere between Pita and Fahey. Somehow threatening but softly gliding into a realm of beauty and comfort. A treasure island for sound research where the real listeners are the real winners. Other Projects: overall, The Great Lakes

Shallow Water Blackout | CD - 12€

Tuk "These are not just huge messes of sound, these are actual songs, dark and beautiful, with an internal logic, a sonic story, a melodic journey through a weird world of dissected and strangely reassembled pop music." - Aquarius Records

On Tuk's second full length, the compositions sound heavier. The reason for this is the way this album was recorded. Songs were created and evolved mainly on stage instead of in his home studio. Playing regularly live added new elements to the music and giving it new angles in the meantime. De basic structure of most of the songs is based on seventies classic rocks songs, after which they were heavily manipulated, destroyed and built up again by herr Tuk. This is sonic wizardry in an extravaganza computer world. [K052]
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Proud Princess Of A Brand New City | cd - 12€

Tuk After several hugely impressive concerts, where the visuals from Kurt D\'Haeseleer are almost as important as the music, Guillaume Graux or Tuk comes up with a first cd. \'Proud Princess of a Brand New City\' contains mostly finished versions of the tracks he used the first three years at his live performances. The main sources on the cd are guitars, most of them so heavily treated that you barely hear it\'s a guitar. Even if it\'s only a beat, it might be guitar. You never know on this record. Besides this, Tuk grabs music from the air, bad tv series, his parents piano he used to play as a child,... Most of the times Tuk starts making his music by modifing an existing song, like a cheap instumental of Diamonds are Forever, or a real guitar song made by his own till nothing is left of the original. Then Graux works on rebuilding the track and defining a new nature of the song. The music of Tuk is full of intensity. You can\'t imagine what he does within a track. When you hear the record for the first time these tracks still hold the memory of a pure pop track. A feeling similar to what you get when you\\\'re listening to Fennesz or Philip Jeck: one of melancholy and utterly beauty.

A treasure island for sound research where the real listeners are the real winners. [K044]
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