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SEX AND DEATH VOLUMES ONE AND TWO ARE AVAILABLE FOR ORDER VIA E-MAIL to iamcontactingchris@hotmail.com - THE THIRD GO DUO ALBUM IS IS BEING MIXED _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Wakefield, Quebec. There are valleys that time forgot, loose communities of outsiders who have either withdrawn from the world or who never really entered it in the first place. Wakefield is one of these valleys and Guy Obrecht is one of the visionary outsiders that exist in the gnarled place between that valley and the modern world. His love for the erotics of the Western operatic tradition forced him out of the valley, where he had established a local legacy as a chaotic musical force for good, and into the ivory tower where he found a new group of musical experimentalists. The Guy Obrecht Duo is a nine-piece ensemble of avant-garde composers, grindcore metal performers, throatsinging vocal acrobats, and white boy rappers.

With Obrecht’s broken birdsong at the center of it all, GO perform rearrangements of the great songs of the last 400 years of Western and non-Western popular music. Their sets change often, but past audiences have been treated to evenings that shift from songs associated with Screamin’ Jay Hawkins to Mary J Blige to Mozart and then Johnny Cash. What is uncanny about their sets is that they deliver such diverse material with heart-breaking emotions and sincerity.

A new paradigm is opening up in popular music. A new authenticity is in the air. The new real is the resistance of the real. The music you loved is dead and GO is eating it. And only a figure that came from another world could’ve inaugurated such an intervention. Guy Obrecht is non-human. He is roboprimitive, a birdman. He is from Wakefield, Quebec. And check out who’s backing him. Use your internet skills to google up Chris Tonelli – a soundsinging engine, Steve Willard – one of California's up and coming young poets and rappers, Charlie Wilmoth – a violist who studied with Anthony Braxton, Justin DeHart – a new music percussionist off the top shelf, Clint McCallum – a former staple of the Arizona grindcore scene, Ian Power - a jaunty bard with leather skin, and Jude Weirmeir – an avant garde composer and fetish-priest., and you’ll see what a heavy force GO is. The stars that aligned to bring these heavies together won’t be aligned long. When these worlds collide things change.

In 2004, on the cold streets of Ottawa, Ontario, Chris Tonelli stumbled over a sleeping bag in front of the Toronto Dominion bank on Sparks street. The man inside pretended not to notice and looked away, but Chris got a good enough glimpse at him to recognise one of his musical heroes, unshaven and destitute. It took some time for Chris to convince Guy to come home with him, to let him help him get back on his feet. Guy had given up on the world that had repeatedly, despite his being a Canadian folk hero, taken economic and spiritual advantage of his trusting and generous soul. Guy got back on his feet and asked Chris to help revive his career and the result is the Guy Obrecht Duo, a musical pairing of such purity and fragility that audiences across the continent have wept uncontrollably at their contemporary delivery of the great songs of the past four hundred years of musical expression. It is your turn now to hear the Guy Obrecht duo.