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The Golden Gonk
12+ albums
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about
The Golden Gonk is the musical project of UK-based multi-instrumentalist and composer Jamie Azzopardi. The name was first established in 2003, though Azzopardi has been making music under various other equally mysterious monikers since 1997. Following two barely there home-recorded cassettes (The Moon is Heaven, 2003 and Who Was I Kidding?, 2004) Azzopardi properly kick-started his Golden Gonk manifesto with a two track single (of sorts) “Cat in a Courtyard”/“A Cloud Imitating a Bush” and the monster double album Songtrees (both 2004) which were briefly made available as CD-Rs to friends, family, lovers and passing hobos. 2005 saw Azzopardi record the sister albums which are offered here through Woven Wheat Whispers: "Individual Grace- A Pauper's Supper" and "Hye & Hellow." These albums are purely instrumental in content and feature guitar and balalaika contributions from good Gonk friend David Sanders. They were conceived together in the summer of 2004, then (coincidentally) recorded together 9 months later in the spring of 2005. They are two halves of a whole, documenting everything that fascinated and/or worried me at the time- a night in a city, a dying season, a shop window, an object reflecting the sun on a hillside, rust, insect infestation and flapjacks. Azzopardi's main compositional tool is a nylon-strung Spanish guitar, though the Golden Gonk releases to date include piano, gong, organ, Indian hand drum, marimba, the aforementioned balalaika, found sounds
