Gaven Dianda – “Telescopic Vision” / “Gravity Brings Me Down” (Wee Wanna Records WEE-001) 1997
Here’s a one-off single by Gaven Dianda from 1997, hardly a period in time when the vinyl 45 was in vogue. Very few groups bothered with the format during the age when the compact disc was King.
But despite the fact that only the brave and the weird still worshipped their turntables, a single was released in a pressing of 500, on the obscure Hamilton, Ontario label Wee Wanna Records.
Gaven Dianda has appeared in several groups over the years but all remain in relative obscurity, even to die-hard psychedelic enthusiasts like myself.
Other outfits include the exotically named Polyster Explosion, Double Feature Creatures and The Safron Sect.
The music on offer is a D-I-Y, low budget, psychedelic racket. There’s LSD dripping all over the grooves as the record spins away into oblivion.
“Telescope Vision” is a fast-paced incoherent acid mess, or should I say a tormenting lysergic Mass.
It’s all very confusing but intoxicating at the same time. It’s just a shame that very few people would have been bothering themselves to check it out in 1997.
“Gravity Brings Me Down” is even more sonically deranged especially with the wobbly theremin and sped-up vocals. The number is completely nuts and something we could play to Aliens if and when we are ever invaded.
If Joe Meek had not gone barking mad and was an acid head, this is the kind of way-out craziness that he would have been experimenting with in 1967.
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Misc Info:
Gaven: recorded in the attic of a Hindu (Krisha devotees) ashram. The neighbours called the police on the session.
Recorded on 4-Track device at the back end of 1996
Personnel:
Gaven Dianda, vocals/guitar/organ
Urgans, theremin/tambourine
Hans Ohrt, drums
Dan Ziveovie, drums
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