Experimental rock collective
GAF y La Estrella de la Muerte is a Tenerife collective led by Mladen Kurajica, crossing avant-rock, space rock, experimental jazz and psychedelia.
GAF is a mutating collective led by Mladen Kurajica, formed in Tenerife as a parallel project by members of Emeth-The Human Noise Machine and co-founders of Colectivo Drone. Its origin dates to the late 1990s, with the formation of a quartet made up of Felipe González Cabezas, César Chinarro and Olivier Dubois. The project has operated under names such as Gaf y la estrella de la muerte, Gaf & The Love Supreme Arkestra and afg-an.
Its importance lies in placing Canarian experimentation in international circuits: the group has played concerts in Japan, China, Mexico, Portugal, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Russia and South America, as well as festivals such as Primavera Sound, FIB, Monkey Week, SKIF and Marvin. It also connects the island scene with Keroxen, Boreal, Phe and WOMAD Canarias.
The music moves between avant-rock, space rock, experimental jazz, psychedelia, experimental folk, musique concrete and improvisation. Pyramids, recorded over three days at Espacio Cultural El Tanque, shows the project’s instrumental, collective and jam-based dimension.
GAF’s transmission is not limited to records: it includes collaborations with Damo Suzuki, Rob Mazurek or Stephen Lawrie, work for cinema and Mladen Kurajica’s score for La Utopía, the documentary about César Manrique. Its presence turns Tenerife into a node of an Atlantic and global experimental network.
The project begins in Tenerife in the late 1990s.
The group presents the album in Catalonia with Canarias Crea support.
It is selected by Girando por Salas to present Sunriser.
The fourth album is released under the La Estrella de la Muerte configuration.
Tenerife
Since the twentieth century
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Gran Canaria
First performance in 1969; first album in 1970
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Gran Canaria
Active between 1965 and 1972; Ciclos was released in 1974
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