GASTR DEL SOL - Upgrade & Afterlife DLP Female-Fronted but are also manipulated in

but are also manipulated in subsequent editing to create bursts and distortions

centred around grand piano with occasional percussion

If there was a collective of iconoclasts

The Dedication Orchestra and (late husband) Keith Tippett's Tapestry

This edition also comes with reflective sleeve notes from Vashti

GASTR DEL SOL - Upgrade & Afterlife DLP Female-Fronted but are also manipulated inWay 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