In what is surely some sign of psychological regression, Gamboa ventures back into the haze of his adolescence as a listener of extreme electric guitar music in order to fashion with great discomfiture this motley assemblage of “musical songs” that bare the vestiges of idioms plucked from one subgenre or another, albeit now defused by attitudes persisting from previous works. In reality, the work’s mode of operation in its more cogent moments can be said to be crudely redolent of what Kyle Gann has described in relation to the work of Peter Thoegersen as “this particularly American concept of fusing the polytempic with the polymicrotonal,” although one could just as easily perceive the results of this operation as resembling some peculiar weed grown from the crevices of whatever untraced constellation may exist between the works of Henry Brant, Easley Blackwood, Bjorn Fongaard and Brenoritvrezorkre. Guitar Center Elliott Carter, maybe. For the exceptionally curious only.

Edition of 65 LPs released on the occasion of the ‘Twice a Man’ exhibition opening, September 21, 2024 at P.E.O.P.L.E. Gallery in Los Angeles. Includes full-color offset-printed jacket, full-color labels and a 24-page 8.5×11” exhibition catalog with postscript by Gamboa. Mastered by Anne Taegert at Dubplates & Mastering.