The Geography of Dissolution

by El Guapo

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1.	Mappie 03:09	buy track
2.	South Of No North 01:19	buy track
3.	Dut-No-Dut 02:30	buy track
4.	Zelda 03:30	buy track
5.	Minimal Improv (English Horn) 01:50	buy track
6.	The Snowmen 03:48	buy track
7.	Mumbley 01:14	buy track
8.	John Hinckley Knew This One 02:52	buy track
9.	Go For It Like Xtreme! Sports 03:02	buy track
10.	Bow-E 05:09	buy track
11.	Collage/Charty #1 03:11	buy track
12.	Cholera! Cholera! 01:39	buy track
13.	Topix On Tape 03:18	buy track
14.	Sector #1 01:23	buy track
15.	Sector #2 03:45	buy track
16.	Sector #3 02:23	buy track
17.	Sector #4 03:38	buy track
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19.	Information Session 02:56	buy track
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"The Geography of Dissolution" is the only document of the eight months El Guapo spent as a four-piece in 1999. Two live sets — one recorded by Davis White at the Black Cat in D.C., another recorded in New York at Tonic by Damon Caldwell — chart the group's transition from art-punk to the avant-garde. Damon died shortly before the record's release, and "Geography of Dissolution" is dedicated to his memory.

This album was released on Mud Memory Records in 2000.

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released January 1, 2000

Pete Cafarella - accordion, keyboard, vocals
Rafael Cohen - guitar, oboe, English horn, vocals
Justin Moyer - bass, drums, vocals
Nate Smith - drums, glockenspiel, vocals

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El Guapo Washington, D.C.

El Guapo was born as a two-piece in Washington, D.C. in 1996. In ’01, the band recorded its first album for Dischord Records, "Super/System", with Phil Manley at NRS. "Fake French", El Guapo's second Dischord release, followed in ’03. The group would later add drummer Josh Blair, rechristen itself as "Supersystem" and recorded two albums for Touch and Go before disbanding in 2006. ... more

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