Album Notes

Guppy Tyke’s public enema #2 is a collection of instrumental group jams and solo pieces produced by Sean Luciw and featuring his all-over-the-map instrumental work. Sean Luciw (a.k.a. Lex Plexus) blazes lead guitar in abundance throughout all tracks on the CD, having played for various bands in B.C. such as Sadistic Humor (thrash metal), Squeeky Leek (jazz fusion), Motherland (metal), Cozy Gelpod (rock), Crushing Complex (progressive metal) and Structure (industrial).

Almost half of the tunes were put together by Sean in his mad-scientist lonesome, while the rest are spontaneously-combusted, improvised collaborations. The title track, Public Enema #2, sounds like the party that it was! New Leaves is an exalted cosmic glory march fueled by Anthony Metivier’s double sitars, didjeridoos by Evan Wilds, and Sean’s soaring guitars. Prometheus is constructed from Greek, Japanese, Hawaiian and Blues scales, featuring the wail and moans of guitar soloist Jacob Bastien, who also plays acoustic guitar and synth bass on the album’s opening track, Spoken Smoke. If 6 Was 5 features a rare and relatively unknown ancient 6-tone musical scale known as the Solfeggio (not the do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-ti-do that music students are so familiar with) which is also a subject of Sean’s book, “Chaos In Boxes”. Sticky Britches (with Ryan MacDuff singing lead vocals) and The Mountains Laugh are the only songs with vocals. The sonic palette of this album includes harmonicas, flutes, trumpets, E-bows, bells, brass bowls, budbusters, saxophones, chewing gum, hiccups, a few good laughs and even some dog-barks for good measure.