Gyratory System

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{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Gyratory System (band)

| alias =

| origin = London, England

| genre =

• Electronic
• experimental
• psychedelic
• avant-garde
• Krautrock
• post-punk
• free-jazz

| years_active = 1993–present

| label = Hansard
Angular Recording Corporation

| associated_acts = One More Grain
Blowpipe
Daniel Patrick Quinn

| website = [http://www.gyratorysystem.com/ Official Website]

| current_members = Andrew Blick
Robin Blick
James Weaver

| past_members = Laurie Waller
Merek Cooper
Daniel Patrick Quinn

}}

Gyratory System is a three-piece music band based in London. It is fronted by producer/trumpet player Andrew Blick. Blick was a session musician in the 1990s and previously a member of One More Grain.{{Cite web|url=https://thequietus.com/articles/03420-gyratory-system-the-sound-board-breathes-album-review|title=The Quietus | Reviews | Gyratory System|website=The Quietus|date=15 December 2009 }} His trumpet-playing style, which involves the heavy use of electronic treatments, has been likened to 'Miles Davis circa On The Corner, Andy Diagram or Jon Hassell'.{{Cite web|url=https://thequietus.com/articles/03131-gyratory-system-interview-album-stream-getting-to-the-heart-of-the-process|title=The Quietus | Features | Escape Velocity | Gyratory System: Getting To The Heart Of 'The Process' & Album Stream|website=The Quietus|date=3 November 2009 }} Another journalist has written: 'A British experimental legend, producer Andrew Blick’s three piece must be the UK’s only acid-fried, horn-led electronic marching band'.{{Cite web|url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/7234/1/gyratory-system|title=Gyratory System|date=April 8, 2010|website=Dazeddigital.com}}

Gyratory System's music is created using a technique called 'The Process'.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/9b9p/|title=BBC - Music - Review of Gyratory System - The Sound-Board Breathes|first=John|last=Doran|website=Bbc.co.uk}} The resulting sound has been compared to electronica, krautrock, post-punk and avant-garde classical music. Paul Lester of The Guardian wrote: 'You may be able to detect the influence of composers such as Steve Reich here, and it may sound ultra cerebral, but...this is seriously danceable stuff...If anything, this music recalls the experimental early-80s "avant-funk" of the likes of A Certain Ratio and, in particular, 23 Skidoo'.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/oct/15/new-band-gyratory-system|title=New band of the day – No 649: Gyratory System|first=Paul|last=Lester|date=October 15, 2009|website=Theguardian.com}} Also in The Guardian, Alex Miller, awarding the band's release Sea Containers House 'single of the week' on 19 September 2009, stated: 'Maybe when the industry catches up with them and 2011 is rammed with music that sounds like a neurotic death rave of farting Klangers I'll resent them, but until then this is what I'm all about. Sing along everybody! Fart, clunk, parp!' {{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/sep/19/new-singles-review|title=[No Headline - page id: 3868944 article id: 16695830]|first=Alex|last=Miller|date=September 18, 2009|website=Theguardian.com}}

The debut Gyratory System album, The Sound-Board Breathes, was released in October 2009. It was praised by critics, John Doran for the BBC describing it as a 'superb album, sounding like little else released this year'. NME rated it 8/10.New Musical Express, 14 November 2009. In 2010, Dazed Digital described the album as 'one of last year’s most essential records'.

Gyratory System has received strong radio support, including sessions for XFM{{Cite web|url=http://x-posure.tumblr.com/post/108170831/xfm-x-posure-thursday-7th-may-2009|title=Xfm X-posure playlist|website=X-posure.tumblr.com}} and BBC 6Music.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00r9xnx|title=BBC Radio 6 Music - BBC Introducing with Tom Robinson, 07/03/2010|website=BBC}}

The band has toured the UK as a headline act and supported Soulwax/2manydjs.{{Cite web|url=https://thequietus.com/articles/03259-gyratory-system-to-support-soulwax-at-brixton|title=The Quietus | News | Gyratory System To Support Soulwax At Brixton|website=The Quietus|date=19 November 2009 }}

Gyratory System's second album, New Harmony, was released on 16 April 2011, on Angular Recording Corporation. On 24 January 2011 NME rated 'Pamplona', taken from New Harmony, as one of its '10 tracks you have to hear this week', describing Gyratory System as 'wonderfully warped electronica...allow your neurons to be frazzled'.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?blog=10&p=9683&more=1&c=1|title=NME - In the NME office|website=Nme.com}} In an early review of New Harmony the music critic Everett True wrote 'I love this music...it bounces and quirks like a wind-up set of chattering teeth'.{{Cite web|url=http://www.collapseboard.com/song-of-the-day-282-gyratory-system/|title=Song of the day – 282: Gyratory System|website=Collapseboard.com}}