GASTR DEL SOL - Upgrade & Afterlife DLP Minimal ERNIE BROOKS and Russell’s companion

ERNIE BROOKS and Russell’s companion

His words are often more impressionistic than overt in their storytelling

suspended in memory and distilled in time

Johnson describes the arrangements this way

pushing at the edges of the map into unexplored territory: Here be monster jams

GASTR DEL SOL - Upgrade & Afterlife DLP Minimal ERNIE BROOKS and Russell’s companionWay back when, Upgrade & Afterlife was the umpteenth release from the individual and collective forces of David Grubbs (known then for Bastro, The Red Krayola, Codeine, Squirrel Bait) and Jim O"Rourke (known for O"Rourke), whose further history has since numbered at least another umpteen or so essential listens. What is it though, wrapped up in delectable sonic amber here, that defines this Upgrade? To be sure, we hear these young men dashing through