Name: Guo4
Brand: Guo

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

STUMM444

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Colour

Black

Colour details

Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Housed in Gatefold sleeve plus 12 page 12” booklet of images from Peter Strickland’s ekphrasis film

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2019-09-20

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

5400863010072

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Total Cap

1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Genre GB

Experimental / Avant-Garde / Industrial / Noise

Label GB

Mute

Please note, some Mute issues also carry an EMI logo. This is not a label and EMI should not be added as a label, it instead indicates that Mute was part of the EMI Group.

Founded in 1978 by [a=Daniel Miller], Mute (also known as [l36339]) releases various forms of music, with an emphasis on electronic and experimental pop. In May 2002 the label was acquired by the [l=EMI Group]. In 2010 Miller did an agreement with EMI to handle Mute as an independent label again, licensing the trademark from EMI via his company [l=Mute Artists Ltd.], but EMI kept the rights over Mute's back catalogue. After the EMI Group was dissolved, in 2012 [l206061] acquired [l636]'s back catalogue.

Branch offices exist in Germany ([l168349]) and in North America ([l36296]). 

Mute has spawned many regional and special-interest sublabels, some of which are still active. One offshoot, [l=Parallel Series], even became independent of [l636] Mute also operates Mute Bank Mail Order, which sells the label's merchandise directly to consumers. Mute Bank published two issues of [i]Mute Statement[/i], a softcover book that details the entire discography of the label and includes band profiles and photos of release artwork.

Another label strongly associated with Mute is [l=Toast Hawaii], run by [a=Depeche Mode]'s [a=Andrew Fletcher].

Label code: [b]LC 05834[/b] / [b]LC 5834[/b]

‘[b]P[/b]’, included to the catalog numbers,
generally stand for promo copies.
‘[b]L[/b]’, included to the catalog numbers,
generally stand for limited editions.

GUO is a multidisciplinary duo formed of Daniel Blumberg and Seymour Wright. On GUO4, their first release for Mute and the latest in an ongoing series, the pair have collaborated with Crystabel Riley (drums), Fran Edgerley [Assemble] (text) and Peter Strickland (short film). The album was mixed by Marta Salogni.

Crystabel Riley is a drummer (Maria and The Mirrors, @xcrswx) and make-up artist and writer (contributing to Beauty Papers, Dazed Beauty, TEN Magazine). She works on patterns on skin – human and drum. 

Peter Strickland, a British film director and screenwriter (Berberian Sound Studio / The Duke of Burgundy / In Fabric) has produced a video ekphrasis to GUO4. Fran Edgerley is an architect and co-founder of Turner Prize winning co-operative Assemble and has produced a written ekphrasis to GUO4.

Blumberg and Wright’s first performance, at Cafe OTO in 2014, led to a weekly working where the duo read texts and images through sound. Writers such as Anne Carson, Robert Walser and Yasunari Kawabata’s palm-of-hand, together with etchings and fonts informed the sounds created. GUO starts with text and then returns to text. After initial influence from the written word, each public release is then interpreted back into ‘text’ responses - ekphrasis. Previous releases have included ekphrasis by the English musician, author and professor, David Toop (GUO1) and the American filmmaker (Childhood of a Leader and VOX LUX) Brady Corbet (GUO2). 

Guo4

Music GB