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MGR (MUSTARD GAS AND ROSES) - Nova Lux

Format: LP Label & Cat.Number: Viva Hate Records VHR-45-004 Release Year: 2006 Note: solo-project of MIKE GALLAGHER of ISIS ! Lim. 200 on blue/gray vinyl, full colour outer & inner-sleeve ! Price (incl. 19% VAT): €15.00 More Info Solo-Album des ISIS-Gitarristen M. GALLAGER auf dem neuen Berliner Label VIVA HATE, dies ist die lim. Vinyl-Version der bereits auf NEUROT erschienenen CD ! Wenn man MGR zuhört, weiss man wer für die melancholischen Stimmungen bei ISIS zuständig ist. Sehr reduzierte, rein instrumentelle Gitarren-Klänge, die unglaubliche Einsamkeit & Trauer ausstrahlen.... „MUSTARD GAS AND ROSES (kurz MGR) ist das Solo Projekt von ISIS Gitarrist Mike Gallagher, der sich durch den Bandnamen auf Kurt Vonneguts semiautobiographischen Roman ,Slaughterhouse Five" bezieht. Das Album umfasst fünf unbetitelte Stücke mit einer Spielzeit von 52 Minuten. Gallagher wurde bei Track#1 von Greg Burns (RED SPAROWES) am Pedal Steel und bei Track 4 von Octopus (DÄLEK) durch dessen geniale Sampletüftelei unterstützt. ,Nova Lux" schifft sich, nicht untypisch für Neurot, durch eher ruhige Ambient-Post-Rock Gewässer und steht dabei ISIS sehr nahe. Gallagher generiert majestätische Atmosphäre mit telekinetischer Kraft, die auf Gitarrenarbeit basierenden Songs lassen in Verbindung mit Homerecording-Electronica Landschaften erwachsen, die deutlich greifbar auftauchen und sich dann doch wieder in unscharfer Formlosigkeit verlieren...“ [Cargo] "...Okay we blew it. We did. We let this MGR record slip right under our radar. And we regret it. We do. As we've said before, the only thing better than discovering some new record that totally kicks your ass, is discovering some record you ignored or missed for some reason, only to have your ass kicked retroactively. Such is the case with MGR. And to prove just how sorry we are, not only are we listing this disc (a few months late) but we also got a super limited cd-r direct from the band reviewed elsewhere on this list. Not sure why we didn't give this a listen when it first came out, our defense, as flimsy as it may seem, is that we thought MGR was the abbreviation for manager, so we just sort of figured, that was kind of a dumb name so why bother. MGR actually stands for Mustard Gas And Roses and is the work of one M. Gallagher from postrock metal heavyweights Isis, and is actually quite amazing. Imagine Isis with all the bombast stripped away, all traces of metal removed, leaving only sinewy minor key guitars to drift over vast expanses of droning shimmer, skeletal but incredibly lush. Dark, moody, melancholy soundscapes, the background a warm swirl of sound, guitars drifting in the fuzzy haze above, unfurling gorgeously melancholic melodies, while all around huge swaths of sound shimmer and shift. There's some lap steel, but it's just another gauzy layer of sound, there are beats here and there, but those already minimal rhythms are processed into indistinct throbs and minimal shuffles and buried way down in the murk, making those tracks sound like some sort of post rock Gas. So good." [Aquarius Records]