güntherpierre's new guitar

günther-pierre tries out the brumlander guitar. we bought a cheap jazzmaster look-a-like guitar with a stratocaster pickup setup and rebuilt it into this beast.

five pickups, one behind the bridge, based on yuri landman's white eagle and moonlander, check out www.hypercustom.com. two outputs, selectable for each pickup & nine strings (the highest three strings are doubled). what you hear is just a few of the things it is capable of.

for this recording we used two small amps, one is clean and one has a bunch of delay and reverb. the music is improvised on the spot.

five sonatinae for guitar and bass ep [billy navrovski trio]

a cufnosed circus presents five sonatinae for guitar and bass by <b>billy navrovski trio</b> that was recorded the same week as the things on soundcloud, but without cresconio delarosa. a second layer of paint was added on the twentysecond of september 2012 under the influence of some unspecified stubbornness.

1. cisza przed burzą [navrovski, montgomery, beckins]
2. powoli tworzenie [montgomery, navrovski]
3. zgiełkliwy/turbulencja [navrovski/navrovski, montgomery, beckins]
4. i tak dalej [navrovski, montgomery, beckins]
5. wieczorna, pijana lampa [montgomery, navrovski]

there is some space for words, some for envision. movements of claps, carts or coïncidence and there's a hidden blues. the picture on the front was found in the wide web, but due to our genes/roots we have lost track of the photos origin. props for weronika ogłoza, camille wren & l.r. vis.

entering autumn

summer's gone and lonely nights of surfing for entertainment lay ahead of us. throughout the winter we will publish some songs of 'billy navrovski trio' and 'the drowned magicians' that we wrote aeons ago and refound recently in our conscious. 'billy navrovski trio' created freeer sonatinae than ever and 'the drowned magicians' will just stay floating on the estuary. also, nuño has been doing some remixes that can be found here and we will publish his lp called <b>empty mountain</b> digitally before the spring.
meanwhile, 'the drowned magicians' keep rehearsing as a quintet and they are sculpturing <b>2:388  8    8 88</b> as well as preparing new material.

all sleeves

from old to young:
the drowned magicianscette adroite trompeuse
january 2010 

the drowned magicians
a year without a queen
april 2011

the drowned magicians
taste of the autumn
january 2010

the drowned magicians
a year with a queen

april 2012

billy navrovski trio
five sonatinae for guitar and bass
november 2012

the drowned magicians
last march
december 2012

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billy navrovski quintet
open hectic pertinent misbehaviourfebruary 2013






















the drowned magicians
"opaque curtains"
march 2013

the blackest wife alive
postmillennialism
april 2013

r8
incense & guns
april 2013

nuño gomez
empty mountain
april 2013

sometimes

we click on a camera trying to grasp the atmosphere of a rehearsal.

a year with a queen ep [the drowned magicians]

a cufnosed circus presents a year with a queen to show what gp and billy sound like when they perform live with just the two of them. the audio quality may not be as good as we like [some songs were recorded with a phone or a photocamera] but we hope that the vibe of a livegig filters through.

how i'll lose my key [billy / montgommery, navrovski]
mystifying garderobe [gp, billy / navrovski, montgommery]
in a bar [billy,gp / montgommery]
somewhat myopically [navrovski, montgommery]
an ode to 2:39am [billy / montgommery]
darkening neon lights [gp, billy / navrovski, montgommery]
this skilful misleading [billy / montgommery]

the drowned magicians are
günther pierre montgomery &
billy navrovski

released on the first of april, 2012

"how i'll lose my key" and "mystifying garderobe" were recorded by philippe gyselbrecht at novanoïs, bruxelles [be]
"in a bar" and "an ode to 2:39am" were recorded at gp and billy's place
"somewhat myopically", "darkening neon lights" and "this skilful misleading" were recorded by jan franzen at muziekgieterij, maastricht [nl]

nuño

as a teaser for his upcoming album, nuño gomez has put some remixes he made on the net.
you can find them there.

epk

 

our epk!

novanois

moodswintro & madou

how i'll lose my key & this skilful misleading

an ode to 2:31qm

the drowned magicians at novanoïs last week and a friendly man with a moustache recorded everything. it wasn't the best concert ever played, but nonetheless we hope it's enjoyable. here's the setlist:

1  moodswintro & madou

2  mystifying garderobe

3  in a bar & somewhat myopically

4  how i'll lose my key & this skilful misleading

5  an ode to 2:31qm

6  darkening neon lights

soundcloud

because the drowned magicians are planning to release a new lp somewhere this year out of the sessions they did a couple of months ago in a house near a grey estuary, we have decided to create an account on soundcloud where you can follow the progress.

moreover, our account on youtube is an output for the rehearsals the drowned magicians are having to perform as a big band one day. hopefully an epk and a clip will appear there as well in the future.

visit soundcloud

or youtube

homeswinger

güntherpierre has begun making music with yuri landman he had the privilege to lend a homeswinger. cresconio is playing billy's new bass & billy sits behind the jacket.
the music is called "melting til shining lava" [sic]




this is "how i'll lose my key" in a new setting:
billy on bass & vocals, cresconio delarosa on the homewinger & güntherpierre on percussion.
we hope you can ignore the crappyness of the material, they are rehearsals after all.

taste of the autumn ep [the drowned magicians]

a cofnused circus presents <b>presque vide, néanmoins heureux</b> an ep by three drowned magicians, which is an approximation of the taste of the autumn and was recorded in costa da walso during the estuary sessions in june two thousand eleven.

scène un
scène deux
scène trois
scène quatre

the drowned magicians are
günther pierre montgomery
billy nawrowsky
cresconio delarosa

produced by nuño gomez

with the wind of the sea, with nostalgia, with thanks to lola kite, bluem, louique, our parents, whoever/everyone who made it possible to rehearse is the former post office, buddha, sokrates & jesus, zico nawrowsky, jack migger, ibrahim kanem, robin cavello, q & k.

sculpturing

short interview

gp & billy did a small interview in maastricht.
to see it, click here

how i'll lose my key + this skilful misleading [rehearsal]

08/04/11
billy & güntherpierre

a year without a queen ep [the drowned magicians]

a cufnosed circus presents a year without a queen, which was created by the drowned magicians between january 2010 & march 2011 at casa del'louique. 'capricieux' at bâtiment g, costa da walso, casa del'louique & the margins of some forest

1 somewhat myopically [navrovski,montgommery]
2 capricieux/an ode to 2.37 [navrovski/navrovski,montommery]
3 a lonely soul's naïveté [navrovski/montgommery,gomez,navrovski]
4 trench coat/capricieux [navrovski/navrovski,montgommery]
5 l'éclatement des arbres [gomez,navrovski]  
6 capricieux/threshold [navrovski/navrovski,montgommery]
7 laura's film [montgommery]
8 tragedy/capricieux [navrovski/navrovski]


music by
güntherpierre montgommery 
billy navrovski
& nuño gomez  


vocals on laura's film by louiqe & jmvdl


produced & mixed by nuño gomez

darkening neon lights [rehearsal]

24/03/11
billy & güntherpierre

a night without a queen

12/11/10


güntherpierre montgommery [vocals, guitars]
robin cavello [guitars]
q [guitars]
billy navrovski [bass, horn]
cresconio de la rosa [drums]

a night with a queen

12/11/10
güntherpierre montgommery [guitar, vocals] 
cresconio de la rosa [guitar]
q [guitar]
robin cavello [drums]
billy navrovski [bass]

cette adroite trompeuse lp [the drowned magicians]

a cufnosed circus presents cette adroite trompeuse, which was recorded by the drowned magicians between novembre 2008 and the first month of 2010.

1 taste of -happiness in- the autumn [güntherpierre/billy]

2 in a bar [billy, güntherpierre/güntherpierre]

3 an ode to 2:36 pm [billy/billy, nuño, ibrahim]

4 naked clavicles [billy, eli, güntherpierre/güntherpierre, billy]

5 how i'll lose my key [billy/güntherpierre, billy]

6 malone dies alone [güntherpierre, billy/billy]

7 darkening neon lights [güntherpierre, billy/billy, güntherpierre]

8 winteresque [günther, billy/billy, hiroyasu, nuño, jack]

9 her feigned blueness [/nuño, güntherpierre, hiroyasu]

10 this ochre morning [/güntherpierre, billy, hiroyasu, jack]

11 by a red shepherd [billy/billy, güntherpierre]

12 black, or something inexplicable [billy/billy, güntherpierre]

the drowned magicians are

günther pierre montgommery

billy nawrowsky

ibrahim kanem

hiroyasu beckins

jack migger

& nuño gomez

uncle arthur leadvocals on “darkening neon lights”

eli draught leadvocals on “naked clavicles”

produced by the drowned magicians

mixed & mastered by nuño gomez at casa del'louique