S5E250 - Gastr del Sol 'Crookt, Crackt, or Fly' with Joe Tunis

<p>This week's guest <strong>Joe Tunis</strong> (Carbon Records, Pengo) once again guides us into the world of post-rock, with Chicago-by-way-of-Kentucky band <strong>Gastr del Sol</strong> and their 1994 Drag City release <strong>'Crookt, Crackt, or Fly'</strong>. Like many of their adjacent bands - Slint, Tortoise, Bastro...etc - the music on this mysterious record is often hard to define. It's a strange, evocative amalgamation of unconventional guitar virtuosity, subtle tape-work and occasional forays into full-on math rock that's definitely not for the timid.</p> <p>Songs featured in this episode: <em>Wedding in the Park</em> - Gastr del Sol; <em>Queasy Stream</em> - Pengo; <em>Sun God</em> - Squirrel Bait; <em>Breadcrumb Trail</em> - Slint; <em>Shoot Me A Deer</em> - Bastro; <em>A Watery Kentucky</em> - Gastr del Sol; <em>Rain On Tin</em> - Sonic Youth; <em>History and Repetition</em> - Bill Orcutt; <em>Four Violins (excerpt)</em> - Tony Conrad; <em>Sunflower River Blues</em> - John Fahey; <em>Wedding in the Park, Work From Smoke</em> - Gastr del Sol; <em>Glass Museum</em> - Tortoise; <em>Parenthetically</em> - Gastr del Sol; <em>Wird</em> - Codeine; <em>Every Five Miles</em> - Gastr del Sol; <em>Boilermaker</em> - The Jesus Lizard; <em>Thos. Dudley Ah! Old Must Dye, Is That A Rifle When It Rains?</em> - Gastr del Sol; <em>Horizontal Hold</em> - This Heat; <em>Jacking The Ball</em> - The Sea and Cake; <em>The C in Cake, The Wrong Soundings</em> - Gastr del Sol; <em>What's He Building?</em> - Tom Waits; <em>The Wrong Soundings, Dry Bones in the Valley (I Saw The Light Come Shining 'Round and 'Round)</em> - Gastr del Sol</p>