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This assembly of previously uncollected studio recordings and beautifully captured unreleased live performances forms a spacious ode to the flux that was their métier; a further set of reinventions that continue to alter the manner in which we hear music, and literally everything else!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike a bolt echoing back from the blue, \u003cem\u003eWe Have Dozens of Titles\u003c\/em\u003e restrikes the iron of Gastr del Sol, plunging the listener (that’s us!) back into the maelstrom of their all-too-brief (-but-ultimately-long-enough-to-change-everything-incisively) passage of 1993-1998 via an assembly of previously uncollected studio recordings and beautifully captured unreleased live material.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGastr del Sol’s music was of the transformative variety – or was it transfiguration they were up to? Or transmigration? Flux was key, to be sure. \u003cstrong\u003eDavid Grubbs\u003c\/strong\u003e formed Gastr from the final lineup of \u003cstrong\u003eBastro\u003c\/strong\u003e; on Gastr’s del Sol’s debut, \u003cem\u003eThe Serpentine Similar\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eGrubbs\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eBundy K. Brown\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eJohn McEntire\u003c\/strong\u003e downshifted from a thrashing electric outfit into a droning, acoustic-based one. Following this, the lineup shifted again, decisively – Brown and McEntire departed to focus on the project to be known as \u003cstrong\u003eTortoise\u003c\/strong\u003e, and \u003cstrong\u003eJim O’Rourke\u003c\/strong\u003e arrived, pairing with Grubbs to make a sequence of unpredictable leaps across genre and practical approach alike, over three LPs and a pair of EPs that threatened the passage of musical time as we knew it in the mid-90s.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWe Have Dozens of Titles\u003c\/em\u003e contains nearly an hour of previously unreleased live recordings, alongside another near-hour of studio recordings culled from previously uncollected singles, EPs, and compilations. At long last, vinyl purchasers will hear the full range of “\u003cem\u003eThe Harp Factory on Lake Street\u003c\/em\u003e”, “\u003cem\u003eDead Cats in a Foghorn\u003c\/em\u003e”, “\u003cem\u003eQuietly Approaching\u003c\/em\u003e” and “\u003cem\u003eThe Bells of St. Mary\u003c\/em\u003e’s” for the first time EVER on vinyl – all of it, live and studio alike, lovingly mastered and remastered by Jim O’Rourke, and packaged in a three LP box set with a wicked \u003cstrong\u003eRoman Signer\u003c\/strong\u003e image on its removable lid, interior printing on the box bottom and inner sleeves for each LP with performance credits for all the songs.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAs much as Gastr del Sol’s albums showcase a group eminently at home in the studio, they were inclined to thoroughly reinvent their compositions in performance. While reviewing live tapes for this compilation, the studio versions of most things felt more and more definitive, with the exception of the live takes included here, which essay startling new qualities in pieces that have been in the public ear for several decades.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe majority of these live performances come from a miraculous find in the CBC archive – a broadcast-quality recording of Jim and David from the 1997 Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville. This was the last time they performed together as Gastr del Sol, during which several still-gestating \u003cem\u003eCamoufleur\u003c\/em\u003e pieces were presented in radically different forms and Jim played organ on a track from David’s first solo album, the concert-closing, band closing (and now album-closing) version of \"Onion Orange”.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe studio recordings included were originally released by the \u003cstrong\u003eRed Hot Organization\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eGod Mountain\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eTable of the Elements\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eSony Japan\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eTeenbeat\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eDrag City\u003c\/strong\u003e. Studios utilized in the making of the material were \u003cstrong\u003eIdful Music Corporation\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eKingsize Soundlab\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003esteamroom\u003c\/strong\u003e. The extended company of players on these numbers includes \u003cstrong\u003eJeb Bishop\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eBundy K. 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