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GIGAS

- Halifax, NS, CA Electronica / Shoegaze / Psychedelic

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Members: Nick Iwaskow, Josh O'Rielly, James Gaudet, Nick Gruszczynski

Label: Electric Voice, Independant

Manager: Nick Iwaskow

Bio: In the kind words of Aaron Levin (Wierd Canada)

With unprecedented strokes of pop hyperbole, GIGAS’ lazer love show is a prophetic vision of our micro-mall future. Only a roaming pack of teens soaked in the tainted innocence of a ouija-board romance could conjure such divine pressure waves; blow... See Full Bio

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mm I hope I win those 2 free tickets to Ben Caplan & The Casual Smokers at the carleton on tuesday :):)

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“The music is psychedelia that’s been dressed up, dressed down, twisted, broken and glued back together again so that it can provide audio satisfaction whenever you need a dose of really great stoner jams, and listening to Black Mountain for the 20th time in a row just won’t do. I suspect this music would also make a great soundtrack to a late night drive into the Canadian wild, alongside your worn out tape of Violator. And if you want to dance to trance-y, synth-y, dream-like goodness, Gigas serve that up too. With a good sized portion of powerful vocal wail for good measure. Thumbs way up.”

— Monika Rola, Gravy Train Music - Gigas are Mega Good

“Nick Iwaskow started Gigas “a while ago” while still in high school and looking to focus on a solo project while his other band was falling apart. He started collecting synths and looping pedals and playing house parties. Inspired by Boards of Canada, Cocteau Twins, shoegaze bands and folk, Iwaskow says, “I like to try and capture a sort of summer road trip airy-spinning-in-a-circle kind of vibe in my songs,” adding that lately he’s been into “tribal bass-heavy” and “jungley tropical” sounds. He was working on a full-length record, but recently received offers to make a split EP with a UK band, The Ships Cat (coming out this month), and be on a compilation from the Sunken Sounds label. The full-length is still in the works, he says, but his focus for now is assembling a full band and writing new material with “lots of bongos and percussive drumming.” ”

— Laura Kenins, The Coast New Music Issue

“GIGAS is the solo project of young Nick Iwaskow of Dartmouth. His music is a sweetly kaleidoscopic ‘80s dream, bringing to mind the headier meanderings of My Bloody Valentine and the Psychedelic Furs. For someone who was born in the early ‘90s, he pulls it off alarmingly well. He’s recently teamed up with Steven Earle, and together they bend over keys and synths and Kaoss pads in Iwakow’s basement, coaxing out the lovely sounds that you can hear fragments of at the GIGAS Myspace. (I can’t stop listening to the thuddy alien synths and weird island beat of “All My Friends.”) Iwaskow says he’s hoping to assemble an entire band and release an album in the spring. “We`re aiming to have a darker sound for our next batch of songs while maintaining the tribal-dance kind of feel,” he says. Get buzzed at 1313 Hollis this Saturday, where GIGAS plays alongside Scribbler, Stop Motion Massacre and Hind Legs at 7pm.”

— Alison Lang, The Coast - Giddy for GIGAS

“Gigas' side of the tape has a much larger production than that of The Ships Cat; programmed drums and noise fill out the track. 'Crazy Eyes' is the stand out track, its catchy guitars and strong vocal show some of the band's 80's indie influences. Both bands use a wide array of instruments and sounds to create their aural landscapes which makes each side of the tape, and each track, unique in its own way. Where this record succeeds is the parts where it is, not only using a whole host of sounds, but is also accessible to those with much more mainstream tastes.”

— Tom Nicholas, Ballad of a Thin Man GIGAS/Ship's Cat split tape review

“With unprecedented strokes of pop hyperbole, GIGAS’ lazer love show is a prophetic vision of our micro-mall future. Only a roaming pack of teens soaked in the tainted innocence of a ouija-board romance could conjure such divine pressure waves; blown-out casio digitalia, cardinal vocal swaths, and a fantastic deus ex drum machina driving every track straight through your heart. Wrap your wounds in their twilight gauze and dance the death away beneath the hidden rapture of a Kate Bushian groove. ”

— Aaron Levin, Tied Down to the Ones You Love (review) - Wierd Canada

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2011
Jul 20

Gus's Pub
Halifax, CA | 8:00pm
Gus's Pub
Halifax, CA
Wed Jul 20, 2011 8:00pm
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The Sunken Sounds Media Fest and compliation release show