Guga Records is a small fledgling label working with specifically chosen artists, releasing high quality original music.
Guga Records is a small fledgling label working with specifically chosen artists, releasing high quality original music.
While the rest of the world swoons over Sam Fender as the North East’s answer to Springsteen, I’d much rather revel in the indie-folk of Hector Gannet, more akin to Martin Stephenson than Springsteen, The Jetty’s End is both gloriously joyful and emotionally taut, the closing section of the song is as life-affirming as it gets. – The Ginger Quiff
‘The Land Belongs to Us’ garnered ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ in MOJO plus 7/10 UNCUT magazines, and Album of The Month in The Crack, triggering multiple sell out gigs, and the first of two stadiums gig at St James Park Newcastle, supporting Sam Fender.
UNCUT acclaimed the band as – “North Shields’ answer to Crazy Horse”
MOJO saluted the album as “pointedly political, natural-world-advocating folk rock”
“Duff has a magical way with words; which belies his tender years; City in the Sand and Last of The Buffalo are both intricately beautiful and conjure up imagery that remind me of John Lennon circa Mind Games too” – The Rocking Magpie
‘Into the Deep’ by Hector Gannet is a song that swirls and sways, pulling listeners along its gently dramatic sonic currents. Largely and beautifully instrumental, ‘Into the Deep’ is truly lifted when the otherworldly vocals swell. There’s an epic, timeless quality to the song’s ethereal feel and lyrical sweep of meaning. – Americana UK
Big Harcar – the debut album released by Hector Gannet in 2020. All vinyl and CDs are fully sold out.Louder Than War
“Political allusions are marbled through Hector Gannet’s songs, but thankfully Duff is no blunt polemicist, preferring to make his points through subtle observation, at times sailing close to the secular spirituality of Patti Smith.” – Louder Than War
As debut records go, the whole thing feels admirably comfortable in its own skin; an endearing new voice that swells as powerfully as the choppy seas that so pertinently shaped it.GoldFlakePaint
Deeply historical, poetic and layered in modernised folk structures, Big Harcar is a masterful album in both composition and theme.NARC.
With a sound informed by windswept landscapes of English geography and history that’s become an unfortunate rarity.The Soundboard