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LATE AT NIGHT – EDWARD GUGLIELMINO
This Brisbane based post punk, alternative rock, avant guard singer songwriter multi instrumentalist released this quirky and much maligned album in 2009. Triple J’s Programming Director Richard Kingsmill compared this album to The Saint’s – Ed Kueppeur, an artist that has also marginalized fans and critics alike. Edward or Professor Gugliemino to his students in his day job, is one of a handful of musicians that can boast Mensa membership on their CV. Despite being blessed with incredible intelligence, no one has done more to derail their career that Guglielmino himself, being charged with inciting a riot at a Lost In Love gig (a band he formed with the Boat People’s James O’Brein) in 2007, resulted in an unsuccessful appeal to fans to raise $5000 Supreme Court bail. Guglielmino was then sued by General Electric for incorporating his initials into their logo, while the matter was settled out of court, by the time ‘Late At Night’ was recorded, Guglielmino found himself penniless and without major label support. It is not surprising that this music, recorded painstakingly over a three year period is both the bleakest and most beautiful of his recordings. Notably on ‘Fail With Me,’ from the moment his venerable Thom Yorke-like falsetto croons about a doomed relationship, through to an oblique whistling solo to rival John Lennon’s efforts on ‘Jealous Guy’ the only conclusion to reach here, is whether you are a lover or a hater, this is the music of a misogynistic genius. Many fans speculated that this song was a metaphor for Guglielmino’s own downward career arc at that time and his ongoing battle with depression and mental illness. On the opening track, the bitter and bewildering ‘Caught In A Landslide,’ a song that falls somewhere between Jeff Buckley and Lou Reed, Guglielmino exploits a recording wall of sound sonic bleed technique developed by David Byrne and Brian Eno during the ‘Fear of Music’ sessions to create an atmospherically charged track, recorded live in the studio, with all the musicians playing at the same time, the music is haunting and reminiscent of the sound of the Walker Brother’s ‘African Nite Flights.’ The track, ‘Take Me Home Tonight’ features the sultry vocals of his band’s one time keyboardist, the exotic Italian actress, Nicoletta Panebianco (many would remember from the acclaimed Australian television series, ‘Rake.’ ‘Late At Night’ has divided critics and fans alike, the single ‘Rhythm of Life’ after initially garnering significant airplay, was dropped from play-lists when Guglielmino hacked into the ARIA website to add his name to the best new artist category, when he was overlooked for a nomination three weeks after this album was released in an ill advised attempt to publicize his music, a stunt industry insiders say will ensure he is never nominated for any major industry awards. A footnote to the album was that it also launched the career of producer, Matt Redlich (Hungry Kids of Hungry, PJ Wolf, Surface Paradise and Timothy Carol).
Matthew Sertori
Party on the night train.»
So it started at Gard De Loin. “You er….. don’t catch that ….. train here…. you have to go to Eastern Station” “How do I get there?” “Um….. I am not sure…. Check the map…” With minutes to spare I check the map of the subway and figure out how to get to the Eastern [...]
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CLASSIC ALBUM REVIEWS LATE AT NIGHT – EDWARD GUGLIELMINO This Brisbane based post punk, alternative rock, avant guard singer songwriter multi instrumentalist released this quirky and much maligned album in 2009. Triple J’s Programming Director Richard Kingsmill compared this album to The Saint’s – Ed Kueppeur, an artist that has also marginalized fans and critics [...]
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