Gutter Guitar is Predrag Delibasich on guitar and nothing else. Except a couple of effect pedals and an amplifier. Predrag, also known as Pex, played guitar in Sokkol and Soviet Valves, played bass for Airport City Shuffle and currently plays bass in Bamodi and Abe Sada, not to mentioned his solo-bass act Bassta! Pex (sometimes Bassta! Pex Orchestra, huh...).
Gutter Guitar started in September 2007 when Pex discovered some beautiful noise coming out of his cheap practice amp while he mucked around with his guitar. The first recording Rat Saviour was done in one take, with no preparation at all - just plug in, switch on and record. More recordings were done early January 2008. Now there's a talk with a cool new local label to get it done on vinyl.
If you like what you hear drop us a line. If you like what you hear and are organising some local shows drop us a line. If you like what you hear and are running a label and want to release it, especially on vinyl drop us a line. If you don't like what you hear drop dead!
NEWS! NEWS! NEWS! Gutter Guitar/Bassta! Pex split LP limited edition of 100 copies (with individually designed covers) out now on Heartless Robot Productions. The same label is also just released a 3-way split CD with Gutter Guitar, Stina and Chris Cobilis. All three of us are going on a Tour of Japan in August. We launched the vinyl and CD at the Bakery in Perth on 17 July. It was a Thursday night, the weather was shit, but we still managed to get 200 people through the door. The High Impedance and Red Music played with us.
Japan tour was great - more on the whole world trip HERE
2009 will see Gutter Guitar recording some new tunes and going overseas again. At least once.
Predrag Delibasich, often known simply as Pex, is one of the staunchest supporters, and most prolific creators, of truly avant garde music in Perth. He performs in bands Abe Sade and Bamodi and as a soloist under the names Bassta! Pex and Gutter Guitar, and each of these fundamentally challenges both rote methods of music composition and basic listenability. Abe Sade build walls of noise with nothing but four bass guitars, Bamodi mix 70s New York post-punk with 90s Japanoise, and as both Bassta! Pex and Gutter Guitar he uses a lone instrument, a bass in the first case and a guitar in the second, to create ambient, blobby noise. His contribution to Smell You Later is a fine example of his MO: a sound you didn’t know a guitar could make is slowly, repetitiously piped through pedals and speakers, seemingly building to a climax that you eventually realise isn’t going to come. Instead it invites you to find inflections and forms in a largely shapeless piece, to think about what kind of listener is required to make sense of it and what it is that makes music compelling. (by Matt Giles)
