Artist description Guitaro is a four piece from Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Music Style Heavy Mellow

Musical Influences Starflyer 59, Air, Metallica, The Dandy Warhols, Radiohead, G 'n' R, Weezer, Beatles, Big Muff

Similar Artists Guitaro

Artist History Guitaro formed in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada in 1998. It's members had performed and recorded with each other in previous related and unrelated senarios. There started to emerge something unusual when they began fusing their styles, which up until that point, had been power pop, rock and gospel. That something soon manifested itself in their first more or less unreleased, self titled EP. Spring 1998 - Mark happened to be studying audio engineering in Burnaby, at CDIS where they ended up recording that first EP. Though they weren't sure what kind of letter grade Mark's instructors had given it, the number attached to it was One. Soon after the initial recording, Guitaro found themselves making a slow move to Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. A place would that would serve as an incubator for the band. Here they began work on their live element, wrote new material, established a graphic identity, and eventually recorded and released Futura Black. A huge factor in Guitaro's success locally in Winnipeg and beyond, has been . The University of Manitoba's Campus station has championed the band's cause. The early EP went number one several times and hovered in the top ten for months, a good indicator of what might happen if the band released a real album. And it happened. Immediately after it's release in early June 2002, Futura Black shot to the top of of both UMFM's and CKUW's (University of Winnipeg) charts...

Group Members Heather-Vocals/Guitar Jer-Drums/Percussion Jer-Bass/Vocals Mark-Vocals/Guitar/Keys

Instruments Guitars, Bass, Drums, Juno-6

Albums Futura Black

Press Reviews No matter how deeply electronics penetrate music, there will always be a place for the guitar, especially big, loud, noisy guitars. This is precisely whaat guitar have delivered on Futura Black - a dense, layered album of fuzzy guitars, dreamy vocals and mountains of reverb. It owuld be too easy to dismiss this as yet another tribute to shoe-gazing bands like My Bloody Valentine. In fact, they come accross sounding more like Bailter Space, early Dandy Warhols, or even fellow Candians Readymade. The members of Guitaro sure do like the distortion pedal, but the mixing of the album gives it a clean, soft effect. The guitarists, Mark Wiebe and Heather Warkentin, also handle vocals together, creating a nice boy - girl melody over top. And the album has an astonishingly polished sound, considering it was self produced on home studio gear. Although most of Futura Black moves in slow waves of sound, tracks like 'Flying Cloud' or 'Solar Scars' shows that they can brighten things up. Sure, Guitaro knows thier way around effects, but they also know how to write, which is precisely why it is such a pleasure to listen to Futura Black. ROB BOLTON - Exclaim, August 2002. Open the pod bay doors, Hal. Local space-rock shoegazers Guitaro rev up the retro-rockets, set the controls for the heart of the sun and blast of to infinity - and beyond on their stunning star-crunch epic Futura Black, an album whose pull is as irresistable as a black hole. Flaoting in a zero-G universe that gently swirls with the languid grace of docking spaceships, lit only by the intergalactic solar flares of their guitars, and exuding more alienation than Major Tom, songs like Find You Out Part 4 and No.1 Rock Station orbit the twin stars of Mogwai and Floyd, subtly evolving and mutating as they stretch out like time bending in on itself at the speed of light. In other words, they are stardust. They are golden. DARRYL STERDAN - Winnipeg Sun, August 9, 2002.

Additional Info Futura Black was recorded over 16 months, starting in January 2001, and released on June 8th 2002. This record was 100% self produced. Named after the band's beloved type face, Futura Black.

Location Winnipeg, MB - Canada

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