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GEL-SOL

General Info

  • Genre: Ambient / Experimental / Psychedelic

    Location Seattle, Washington, US

    Profile Views: 59370

    Last Login: 12/3/2012

    Member Since 7/13/2005

    Website www.gel-sol.com

    Record Label Upstairs Recordings/Psychonavigation Records/em:t

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    Seattle's Gel-Sol is producer/musician Andrew Reichel, whose dichotomous sound spans from ambient soundscapes to complex, rhythmic electronica, creating a dynamic psychedelic universe with heavy emphasis on improvisation. In 2004, Gel-Sol released the critically-acclaimed Gel-Sol 1104 (aka Music Made For You...And By You, I Mean Me.) on the UK's cult ambient label Em:t Records. Gel-Sol's follow-up album Unifactor continues the tradition of his unique, amorphous sound collages, and was released on Upstairs Recordings (Vancouver) in April 2007. Gel-Sol's third album IZ, released by Upstairs/Psychonavigation in 2008, is an all-ambient excursion written for his niece, and is a bit of a departure from his previous two efforts. Andrew is also a member of the electronic group KIDS FOR TOMORROW, an improvisational trio focused on experimental ambient music.
  • Members

    Andrew Reichel
  • Influences

    King Crimson, Yes, Genesis, Gong, The Soft Machine, Robert Wyatt, Bruce Haack, Hatfield and the North, Caravan, Camel, Steve Hillage, System 7, Future Sound of London, the Orb, Boards of Canada, Mouse on Mars, Aphex Twin, Autechre, Plaid, Biosphere, Tangerine Dream, Neu!, Robert Fripp, Brian Eno, Bola, Coil, Meat Beat Manifesto, Stereolab, Tortoise, Broadcast, Squarepusher, Luke Vibert, Wagonchrist, Brainticket, Lucifer's Friend, Dungen, Ween, Rush, Global Communication, Egg, Khan, Aphrodite's Child, Vangelis, Stevie Wonder, Funkadelic, Curtis Mayfield, Willie Hutch, Cluster, Amon Duul II, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, Van Halen, Thin Lizzy, Deep Purple, Kevin Ayers, Family, Todd Rundgren, Stars of the Lid, R. Stevie Moore, Orbital, Thomas Fehlmann, Negativland, The Move, ELO
  • Sounds Like

    Your mom hopped up on goofballs in a peanut butter wrestling match with a midget and a giant imaginary cheeseburger with sunglasses. And this is the just the ambient stuff...

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