The Serpentine Similar (Reissue) (Vinyl LP)

Signing to Teen Beat, Gastr del Sol completed The Serpentine Similar in late 1992 for release the following year (the Drag City reissue came in 1997). In the final rendering, ‘The Serpentine Similar’s roof-rent, white-sky execution was attenuated with several percussion appearances from the prodigal John McEntire. Over the next five years, his cameo presence was a constant in Gastr del Sol’s steadily-evolving tradition of significant breaks from tradition at every turn. There would be an even more significant tradition-breaker onboard for all this; following the release of The Serpentine Similar, Jim O’Rourke joined Grubbs in Gastr as Brown exited (to focus on Tortoise, with McEntire et al). For the new Gastr duo, a world of new directions in music awaited, the future became the past, and the music of Gastr del Sol emerged from the thin air, then returned there.

Now, The Serpentine Similar has been returned to vinyl from the temporal streams of contemporary music listening, a glorious rematerializing of all its spatial details and available to independent retailers on LP for the first time in 20 years.

Tracklist:

1. A Watery Kentucky
2. Easy Company
3. A Jar Of Fat
4. Ursus Arctos Wonderfilis
5. Eye Street
6. For Soren Mueller
7. Serpentine Orbit
8. Even The Odd Orbit