Michael Yonkers & GR – The High Speed Recording Complex 
(Usa/Fr-2007-reissue 2010) 
Burka For Everybody (LP B.F.E 3-Spain) 

Michael Yonkers : 
6 String Solid Body Electric Guitar & Wall Of Noise, Vocals, 4TTR 

GR (aka Gregory Raimo) : 
Drums & Drumming Feedback, Percussions, Guitar, Vocals, 4TTR 

Tracklisting : 

(Side A) 
I. Why Didn’t 
II. The News 
III. Blindforce Of The Pulse Dynamo 
IV. Since I 

(Side B) 
V. Big Distance 
VI. Distortion, Blow My Mind 
VIII. The Sleepwalker (An Electric Sermon For M. R. Y) 

Recorded In 2007

First issued more than 10 years ago (in very limited deluxe edition of 100 handmade CDs/2007) by Lesdisques Blasphematoires Du Palatin  — a memorable label name conveying a frontal cynicism towards the globalizing music appreciation's most canonical sphere —, Michael Yonkers & GR's The High Speed Recording Complex still remains today the unparalleled piece of Outsider Music it was predestined to be and, like the Phoenix rising again & again from the ashes of his aromas and incense nest, has sniffed the means of its own survival in the burning flames.

Living about 4500 miles apart from each other, both men found through the distance, beyond space geography, the simplest process of all by just sending each other the parts captured (at high-speed) on their respective 4-track tape recorder, injecting new material coming out of "transatlantic delivery" with new layered sounds and so on until the sonic multi-dispatch gets dosed in an outrageous mix. They coined it "The High Speed Recording Complex".
Out of the speakers this is some boiling lava of tremendous noise diffused on the surface of the skin, — move closer, this is just future Blues licensed by natural germination!
in 2010, the album was reissued on LP by the Spanish label Burka For Everybody, offering on the same occasion a second master made by GR.
It's time to plug your ears again to this ultra dynamic, raw & powerful concoction which raises the Lo-Fi approach to a pivotal degree of self-liberation.

The high speed recording complex

THE NEWS

WHY DIDNT

GR / PROPEL TENSION ON POLYESTER BASE 
(Tapes Archives) 

12" vinyl lp / limited 300 copies 
300gr card sleeve, printed on uncoated reversed paper 
Opaque Dynamo / opadyn01-gr01 / 2016 

Tracklisting: 

A1 - Perforation 
A2 - Vertical Take-Off ( Part 1) 
A3 - A Flickered View Negative 
A4 - Violet Piss In Snobbish Eardrums 
A5 - Ritual To The Decadent 
B1 - Vertical Take-Off ( Part 2) 
B2 - Altostratus 
B3 - Forward Signal 
B4 - Propel Tension On Polyester Base 
B5 - Shock Degrees 
B6 - Down The Hidden Shade 
B7 - Backward Signal 
B8 - Quarter Inch Creaks 

LINERS: 

" Give my nerves a little workout, 
____my flesh sonic uppers ; 
I wanna sound like a busy signal 
By day & night fillin' in the blanks. " 
(from Vertical take-Off, part 1) 

GR's Propel Tension On Polyester Base is a decisive effort in tape recording, 13 private tracks taken from the archives of an adventurous mind and forming a mysterious sound diary, a core part in the evolution of GR's style and a secretive work in progress highlighting an incessant appetite for putting a tentacular vision onto the recordable surface at hand. 
Among the tracks presented here _ which were taped between 2008/2016 _ some are achieved in one blow with evident fulgurance, while some others are initiated early and completed years later in different spaces, non-similar phases, bringing to the sound textures some unfathomable provenance ; the material is relentlessly tracked down by following the natural path of self-autonomy over space & time. 

" The featured material was taped non-uniformally, 
various analog recorders and spaces were used 
over a period of private stimulation. " 
(GR mentions on the back cover) 

The spectrum of styles & processes approached and developed by GR on those recordings is ultimately wide. 
Free construct open rhythm, hear the dead snare at your heels, freer rock, hard kicking grooves & serpentine pulse shall scare the hell out of ultra moving asses in the rush, saturation, dangerous proto-punk, the most menacing monster-fuzz downtown, cosmic elektronische & psycho tape looping, abstract instrumentals, fingerpicking to the decadent, possessed vocals and wicked street-punk delivery, non-chordal guitar excess, reel to reel manipulations, a mastery of fixed sounds through the written & unwritten… — Propel tension on polyester base, tapes archives. 

released December 31, 2016

PROPEL TENSION ON POLYESTER BASE (Tapes Archives)

Perforation

No-bullshit underground free-rock and proto-punk dosage featuring a multi-piece line up of GRs !

This acetate slab of defiant mixture makes the magic happens like an hallucinatory disenchantment incorporated into some ultra vindictive power… Infectious, scary, brutal, elegiac, freakish and wickedly stylish, GR’s fifth solo album The GR Record Head pushes the boundaries straight up to cook your synapses.

Once again, the album comes out outside of the standards, with no other backing than GR himself on all instruments plugged into overheated tubes, then a few dusty razor-like moving coil transducers, a mixing board built like a Panzer and an analog 4 track reel to reel recorder from another age.

GuitaRazing, frenzied riffing and cranked soloing vagabondage on corroded strings, mesmeric tone, acid rave ups, rhythms like catapults, motorik plus deconstructive free forms, opaque vocals full of venom and fuelled by raw lines & metrics…— Now pair all that with the craft of fixing sounds onto an early 80s’ 1/4 inch reel tape and you got an idea of what The GR Record Head is all about.

The Mother of all fuckers in actual D.I.Y/Low-Fi Rock’n’roll.

Limited edition of 300 white-colored vinyls / comes with Lyrics insert sheet / printed on 300gr uncoated reversed card sleeve

The GR Record Head (2020)

B5. I Owe You Nothing (But The Spirit Of The Protest)

B4. Unmade To Measure

B3. Ripples Thru The Beam

B2. Run & Slide

B1. Mind Rotation

A4. Spray Of Punitive Fumes

A3. Howlin' Triangle

A2. My Returning Sound

A1. Fred Hampton

GR Aka GRegory Raimo

" France's Gregory Raimo (er, GR) is truly a moonage daydream, to quote Bowie. His music is far out in the sense that "out there" is quite a distance from where your eardrums currently reside. " _ The Spacelab

" Whether this is madness or genius – who’s to tell? " _ Nortern Star

" Gregory Raimo (aka GR) belongs to extremely rare, endangered species of artists... It's this kind of music, which invites you to an inimitable universe, not the one which creates a universe you wanted to be in. Put away all these ”new”, bland krautrock and psychedelic bands that only bring cosmetic changes to the original sound/vibe you already heard 50 years ago. If you are a real music traveller looking for a real adventure, then step right up. " _ KAROL PACZKOWSKI

" psych rock explosiveness...... mixing equal parts in MICHAEL YONKERS, CAPTAIN BEEFHEART, LAST EXIT, CHROME, DNA, TELEVISION, FLOWER TRAVELIN BAND and BLUE CHEER, GR hits all cylinders with his angular noise bent psych rock mayhem.......... blues chords, garage rock riffage and free jazz drumming all stretched and distended into one noisy fray meant to both menace and enlighten..... you'll get lost in the aggression and guitar soloing and by the time the tone arm returns to its place after the b side, you might just be another person completely. " _ Tiny Grooves

" Follow this when you are alive in this time. " _ Billy Miller

" Gregory Raimo is one of the few musicians who is driven by a free, uninhibited creative spirit...it's almost impossible to describe his lysergic musical madness " _ Cosmic Lava

"Real, productive damage comes from within, however, and that’s where A Reverse Age performs its miracles. It figures that you would need to go back 30 to 40 years in the history of underground or fringe music to find any sort of precedent to the eight songs of A Reverse Age. Its restless nature highlights Raimo’s frantic compositional structures and explosive playing across guitar, bass and drums alike, the product of one guy with real vision and the skills to pull off a work of virtuosic hostility such as this one. Riffs sizzle and burn up, pushed through effects that somehow cheapen lesser works yet bolster this one. Things you know – eldritch forest folk, roadhouse blues, aggressive jazz-style drumming – are distended near to the point where they become part of GR’s own musical syllabus, grounded by GR’s street-corner vocal hustle, sounding like Armand Schaubroeck rapping into a CB radio in a stolen car, out joyriding and knocking off side view mirrors. Every last moment on A Reverse Age was engineered to do damage, and it does so in the impossible confines of reality, an assaultive and merciless run through the uncleared brush, screaming and bleeding with contact from nature. This is music that truly does not lets up until the record spins to a close, designed by and for travelers who subscribe to the higher mind, and know the promise that, properly tended, such an organ can reveal. This is the reality of the psychedelic experience, folded up and fallen out of a dog-eared copy of TiKHAL, the truth that blots out the sun’s myth-making ways and externally-damaging rays. Check this out with pure intentions, and we’ll see you a few months from now, unshaven and beaming like a god. " _ Doug Mosurock, "A Reverse Age" review

GR (GRegory Raimo)

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