Category: ガーゼ

Kao wo aratte denaoshite koi (no idea where to correctly put the spaces and how to correctly split infinitives) or „go wash your face and then come back“ is a clever insult you tell someone you just beat up, or so I learned from the old „Kill from the heart“ page. This 12“ from 1997 continues Gauze’s course of total musical insanity with its crazy song structures, wild riffs and unpredictable tempo changes. Totally awesome and wild.
Btw. my version is the bootleg from 2017, which came out right before the official re-release. Once a sucker, always a sucker. That’s me.

I especially like that the insult is written in japanese calligraphy.

Gauze’s third 12“ released in 1989. My record is a bootleg from 2017 which i bought very shortly before the album got an official re-release. Well, damn.

With “Genkai Wa Doko Da” Gauze once more upped the ante and released a record that is almost absurd in its ferocity. The tempos are a lot faster than on their previous 12″ Equalizing Distort but the riffs and the drumming are at least as complex, if not even more intricate. It sounds almost as if they had taken some wild jazz approach (sorry for that!) to writing hardcore songs, with lots of weird breaks and fills, stop-and-go-parts or tempo changes, and all this staying completely in control, never breaking down into total chaos. It’s unbelievable how tight they are playing all these crazy, super-fast and unpredictable monsters of songs. What other band could pull off something like this? The b-side ends with part of an all classics live set Gauze played in Scotland, with the announcer mispronouncing their name.

Btw. the record’s title translates roughly as „where’s the limit“ which is quite the appropriate name for this 12“.

THE album. Or at least its bootleg with bonus tracks from “Thrash Till Death” and “A Farewell To Arms”.

THE (!) album.

According to the Gauze’s band history on the now sadly defunct Kill From The Heart page, Gauze’s original mission statement was to play as fast as possible by giving the impression of playing fast without actually playing fast. Wow, wrap your head around that sentence! 1984’s release of the Fuck Heads LP was probably the result of this philosophy. It’s still a lot more punk, slower and less wild than 1986’s Equalizing Distort, and the song structures are still a bit more “conventional”, too. But Fuck Heads’s got a very interesting dark and heavy vibe, with a lot of power and anger in the songs.
This here is a recent bootleg release, which includes the songs off the incredibly expensive City Rockers compilation and off the Outsider LP.

Did you know that Gauze could smoke with their butts?

Gauze recorded this insane piece of noise during their 1996 tour of the USA. Most of the six tracks are re-recorded versions of songs off Equalizing Distort and 限界は何処だ. One new song was later re-released for the 1997 面を洗って出直して来い 12″. All songs are super-fast and feature Gauze’s typical weird and wild song structures.

Get it!