Insania by GY!PA
Dark electronic duo set to collide the world of pop royalty with deep industrial witch music. Magic dimensions built by Kaskie (Death of Money / SVNTREADER) & Emer (Water / Fat Out). GSY!PA started jamming together in January 2017, initially playing around making slow darkened versions of 90’s pop songs. Based at the Islington Mill in Salford, the duo first met back in 2008 when Fat Out put on Death of Money and Emma continued to be the Salford promoter for Kaskie’s band and other solo projects. Kaskie moved to Manchester from Cardiff in 2015 and started his electronic solo project SVNTREADER, immersing himself in the North West experimental music scene working with Ex-Easter Island Head, Gnod & Vanishing. Emer moved to Manchester from Milton Keynes in 2007 and started Fat Out within 6 months of moving up. In 2015, having never played in any bands before, Emma formed the improv ritualistic noise band Water and began her exploration into making music and live performance. GSY!PA explore the realms of the dark psyche, taking the audience from depths of deep meditative intensity to rhythmic industrious beats.
"Very much the embodiment of that thing where a impenetrable private joke casually becomes a temporary band name, and in the course of becoming an actual functioning band no-one quite gets round to changing it, and then it’s too late. Conversely: if Godspeed You! Peter Andre, a Manchester-based duo, thought humour was beneath them they might have gone the route of putting triangles in their name and quasi-edgy runic doodles on their artwork, and I might be laughing at them, rather than with. Most significantly: this half-hour tape is ill as hell if you like the general notion of witch house (hence the triangles reference) but want it to pull further in both directions – the unCoiled, time-stretched ambient hellgloop and the jackhammer industrial kicks. GY!PA do a lot of the former on the first side, ‘Blood Splash’ and a lot of the latter on the second, ‘Dismissed’. The party, which for 25 minutes had been hinted at most, starts late on in ‘Dismissed’ when the patchwork trance techno audibly grinds to a halt and Emma Thompson (not that one) launches into a kind of slam poetry broadside on the topic of body positive cyborg feminism over an idealised gabber fairground soundtrack. That’s me saying it bangs, for the avoidance of doubt."
- Noel Gardner (The Quietus
Tracklist
| 1. | Blood Splash | 14:20 |
| 2. | Dismissed | 16:26 |
