Get Back Guinozzi Announce Debut Album

"Carpet Madness" is the debut album from latest FatCat signing, Get Back Guinozzi, to be released on October 6th. Following some time out after the birth this Spring of Eglantine Gouzy's first child, Get Back Guinozzi will undertake their first proper bout of live touring this Fall in the UK and Europe, US dates to be announced.

Now comprising a 5-piece band based between London and the South of France, Get Back Guinozzi is driven by two French friends, Eglantine Gouzy and Fred Landini. Front-person Gouzy is someone FatCat have been talking with for a while, having posted three of her solo tracks on our online demo archive back in 2004. Remaining in regular contact, in Spring 2008 she mailed the label a CD-R of the band project they'd been working.

The roots of Get Back Guinozzi lay in Landini composing fifteen brief tracks for a contemporary dance company, using a minimal set up of guitar, rhythm box, and only one keyboard sound. These yielded the melody for the song "L.A." Having already collaborated with her on previous material, he sent London-based Gouzy instrumental versions of "L.A." and "Go Back to School" to work on. The pair were so excited by the results that they decided to form a band. More tracks were sent across the internet during Winter 2007, with Gouzy adding vocals, keyboards, percussion and odd electronics, until an album's worth of material was formed and dispatched to us.

Following further meetings and conversations, tracks were sharpened, more songs were recorded, and the album was eventually re-mixed by Michael Beckett (alias Schneider TM's Kpt. Michigan). A five-piece band was formed with the addition of Regis Laugier (bass), Luc Benito (drums) and Fabrice Giuisiano (guitar, keyboard), and GBG played their debut shows in September 2008.

With lyrical meaning often partially obscured (Gouzy refers to her singing "English in a baboon style"), Landini describes Gouzy's lyrics as being replete with fantasy and a kind of dark humor. "It's Eglantine's view of the world. It's an attempt at Zouk or tropical music with these lyrics that are a little bit spooky." Influenced by singers like Ari Up (The Slits), Pygmies, Laurie Anderson, Serge Gainsbourg, Allison Staton (Young Marble Giants) and Donna Summer, Gouzy likes "to imagine my own little movies where I can be different characters. I can make doubles of myself, I can transform myself - a real schizophrenic, sometimes within the same track."

Audio: Get Back Guinozzi - "Police and Thieves" (The Clash cover)

Tracklist for Carpet Madness

1. Where You Are
2. Personal Lodger
3. Low Files Tropical
4. Go Back To school
5. Carpet Madness
6. I Don't Want To Sleep Alone
7. L.A.
8. Police and Thieves
9. Baby Baby
10. 10. Jungely
11. Sick
12. King's Song

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