Our latest tape GDC’s ‘Jours Avec Jennie’ has been featured on the avant blog collective and Pitchfork sibling Altered Zones not once but twice! The latest post came yesterday and reviewed the standout track ‘Leur Heure’ calling it “Formidable!”. In case you missed it listen and download the track below.
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The super cool, world music tape lovin, blog International Tapes has a nice little review of GDC’s Haute Contre Bas up today. No foolin.
In the words of the astute blog Auxiliary Out, “Vermont pop genius Zach Phillips (Horse Boys, Sord, Nals Goring, OSR Tapes etc.) has delivered unto us a motherf***in’ faux-French masterpiece”. We are pleased to say this incredibly unique c30 cassette is now available for a mere 7$ here. Written and recorded in a mere 8 days this tape is part of the prodigious output of 12 albums that Zach has been streaming out over the last year under many different guises and on many different labels including Feeding Tube, Night People and his own OSR tapes. We are stoked to be putting out what stands as one of his most brilliant and accessible albums. This will apparently be the one and only album to bear the GDC name and this is an edition of 100 so get one whilst the getting is good. For more information on the world that is Zach Phillips see his blog and if you haven’t done it yet check out this standout track and attune your eyeballs to some photos of the tapes in all of their multi-hued glory:
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As the Pythons say “and now for something completely different”. We are excited to announce that we’ll be releasing the phenomenal tape “Jours Avec Jennie” by the left field avant-poppp mastermind Zach Phillips under his GDC moniker. Hailing from the green country of Vermont, Zach Phillips has been steadily making a name for himself with his virtuosic piano and synth based tape explorations into what one his other labels (feeding tube records) has described as “an intricate and idiosyncratic world of private melodic symbology”. Known for his releases under the name Horse Boys, Sord, Nals Goring and lately Blanche Blanche Blanche, we are excited to be putting out the only record under the GDC umbrella, and what a record it is too! “Jours Avec Jennie” has been rightly called “one the best cassettes of the year and hands down the best pop record I have heard this year” and “this is a must hear!” by the astute blog Auxiliary Out. Recorded over a mere eight days and densely filling both sides of a c30, this is a lo-fi faux French masterpiece. It’s like a bootleg of a Smile era French version of Brian Wilson set loose upon the synths of Bernard Fevre with a head full of Scott Joplin and Thelonius Monk.
GDC’s “Jours Avec Jennie” will be out March 29th on a limited edition of 100 pro dubbed hi bias c30 tapes. Look for some samples and a pre order date soon. For now visit the site of Zach’s “non label, non press” OSR tapes dax bills.
