GUYVE

REVIEW from E-METALSPACE



Guyve - Smegma Studio Sessions (MCD)

Independent - 2009



"Ladies and Gentlemen! Presenting, the next big thing in laying on the floor after smoking some buds and listening to mind-altering music is here: Guyve’s Smegma Studio Sessions! This tiny audio disc contains three tracks that clock in at seventeen and one half minutes of pure aural delight! The heavy riffing and maniacal drumming is accented by strategically placed distortion and odd bleeps and bloops that sound as if they came from a guitar swinging match in the studio. I’m also very pleased with the fact that this is an instrumental piece, seeing as though I’m sure that the addition of ANY type of vocals would detract from the amazing art these to Portlanders have given life to here. MORE!!! MORE!!! MORE!!! (And by MORE!!!, I mean a full-length next time) You trippy sounding fuckers!



Overall: If you love quasi-psychedelic noise rock that‘s as fun as Homer‘s insanity pepper hallucination with the Johnny Cash coyote, then Guyve is right up your acid THC caked alley!" - Typhon



9/10



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Noise from a Quonset.



No, that is not an over-sophisticated, symphonic term for a two-piece ensemble. No, that is not where I would begin a bio for two rural minds combining to produce a distinctively original music.

But here we are, in a place more rural than you would think, inside a tin woodshed, in the middle of winter, a three dollar strobe light, & some poorly-lit VHS recording in the corner. invited here to be mesmerized, those of us whove taken Dr. Mesmers remedy for listening to Metal w/o gloves.

The way it all comes back to me, is in the bass frequencies from an Earth® amplifier mashing against those poorly insulated tin walls & rattling the snare drum, the drummer thundering out one, then three quick detonations of the bass drum, & some drop-D tuning chord in endless sustain none of us feels more than the whale feels the water. This, and we are three minutes into the intro to that new song.

Jonah Fast (percussion) & Cam Reinlasoder (strings) have been jamming, recording, touring, & living under the moniker GUYVE for 10+ years. From a northeastern Montana Indian Reservation, thru college towns, & frequenting Stump Towns finest saloons, GUYVE has always attempted to give their listening audience a new & meaningful musical experience. GUYVE's enthusiasm for turning people on to their music is paralleled only by their musical abilities & volume.

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A vocalist, a second & third guitar or a bass, an organist. nonesuch additions would truly add anything, but merely clutter an already mammoth stage presence. Close your eyes if you want to hear the words.

Open your mind by listening.



-excerpt from "Autobiographical Perusings", Jeremy Watterson, Hash Press 2005