JAY PEELE: GravYard Tales

Jay Peele

GravYard Tales

© 2003 Grain of Salt Records (656617001123)

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12 page full colour booklet features artist's childhood drawings & spoken word : music is organic electronic and acoustic with moog synthesis, a little guitar, sequencing, self sampling from 1979 and beyond, psychedelic clear trey full colour music self m

tracks

1 Guide's Introduction
2 The House
3 Entry
4 Coming to Life
5 The Cellar
6 Passionless
7 Bottled Ghost
8 Appendix of the Machine
9 Suite 1612
10 Medusa
11 Submerged (in stone)
12 Just The Torture
13 Old Air Force Base
14 The Chamber
15 Lurking Apparitions
16 Father Frankenstein
17 GravYard Tales (Circular Spark v-01)
18 The Haunted Boy
19 End of the Tour

notes

Jay makes music on his own and with ensembles... Thanks for checking out this site! :)

selected discography:
* 2001 - jay peele - pestilence festival (thin line CD case) 4 tracks - soundscapes
* 2001 - da bigg boyz - jousting with windmills (full length CD - drums, moogs, sax)
* 2000 - pigeonhole - the magnetic kitchen (all improvisational instrumental album featuring platic jugs, synths, original samples, electronic noise, bass, guitars, drums, percussion)
* 2001 - Jay Peele - space trace sampler volume 1 (features tracks from all of the above and 'GravYard Tales' tracks and rarities) only $5 (thin line CD)
* 2003 - percussion psychedelia band (out of print album will be re-issued early in 2004)
* 2003 - Jay Peele's GravYard Tales
* 2003 - Fiver's Stereo (limited autographed pressing ambient album inspired by Richard Adams' Watership Down) release date: dec 5 & 6 @ 9th & Main)
* coming before 2003 slips away - Tropic of Cancer (mellow 6-piece instrumental jam ensemble full length studio/live debut!)

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  • Whoa! What the Hell is this?
    author: Steve Crass

    Is this the coolest thing ever? Maybe. Proving that he has no fear, or any interest in the mainstream, Peele shows us just how odd things can get when you really put your mind to it. Innovative and brilliant, fantastic and insane, Gravyard Tales may not have been conceived or recorded while under the influence, but it sure seems that way. Have fun trying to identify all the instruments and sounds.

  • A flowing soundtrack to some unimaginable morbid tale...
    author: RKF, DEAD ANGEL ezine

    Now this comes completely out of left field, all right. What we have here, it appears, is an album's worth of strange-sounding experiments that began as taped bits from 1979 - 1981, over which he's been periodically adding material to over the years. Coupled with the artwork (a cover and booklet of a child's artwork, presumably from Peele's own childhood), the result is a surreal listening experience that is less an actual album than a flowing soundtrack to some unimaginable morbid tale. Explosive sounds, hypnotic ticking, relentless beats (when there are beats to be found), cryptic sound samples, yelling, guitar sounds that are all over the map... an endless stream of unpredictable sounds and groove-laden beats flow like water over the course of this disc. There are moments that approach sounding like actual songs, but mostly it's all about unpredictable bursts of sound and rhythm. The wind-tunnel approach to chaotic sound, coupled with clear recording and a varied palette of sound textures, are beneficial in keeping the whole exercise from becoming tedious; there's very little to hold onto for long -- just about the time it starts to sink in, whatever bit that might be, it disappears to be replaced by something else -- and without good sounds, it wouldn't hang fire nearly as well as it does. Proof that the whimsical approach to sound collage can be filled with potential in the right hands.

  • A disturbed younger's trip through an electronic pulsating haunted mansion
    author: Olin Kirby

    For this release, electronic music wizard Jay Peele sampled his own audio-cassette recordings made as a diabolical 8-year-old way back in 1978. No cutesy kids stuff here: the young Peele provides narration through a dark and evil haunted mansion. Not since "The Omen" have I ever encountered such a hell-spawned young grade-schooler. The music is primarily electronic with elements of ambient, trance, house, and industrial; he relies heavily on Moogs and other analog synths, as well as occasional electric and acoustic guitars. The real icing on the cake is the packaging: Peele hired an amazing graphic designer to assemble a full-colour twelve-page booklet which is very well an art book in its own right. The entire work includes no less than fifteen demented drawings made by an eight-year-old Peele that would have surely sent him straight to the guidance counselor had his mommy and daddy ever seen them...

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