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SurfGuitar101 Forums » Surf Music General Discussion »
Anybody heard Swami John Reis & The Blind Shake yet?
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Posted on Feb 20 2015 01:25 AM
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Posted on Feb 22 2015 06:42 AM
Onslow_Beach wrote:
I caught 3 tracks Ralf played on his show (NSSR) a few days ago, which were pretty fantastic. Man - just catching up on this video... this performance, their first ever as a live band, is just I N T E N S E !!! It's pretty neat to hear the baritone in place of a bass. Also interesting to see some of these guys musical past showing up in ways like the Tele guy playing some real aggressive stuff waaayyy up the neck and on the lower register on the opening track. And places like the baritone leading leading the assault in the song starting at about 20:30. Mean and ripping riff - reminds me of what I hear in my head when I remember stuff like Girls Against Boys (double basses on Kill the Sexplayer, anyone?). And I know Saxophone can be a divisive instrument with the surf crowd, but I ~really~ like it here. There are moments where that guy must be channeling Dana Colley's Morphine years - nasty in the very best ways. John & the band may not care to hear it couched that way given the utterly fantastic response he makes to an early "Drive Like Jehu!" shout from the crowd, but hopefully those 90's references help add color to my comment about 'musical past' - they do the early sixties inspired stuff with a unique influence of drive, grit and aggression that works really well IMO and I don't see a lot of in our scene. Totally deserves to not get overlooked as a plain hyperlink (original post). Embedding it here to encourage folks who've maybe overlooked it to give it a spin. Warning, not your usual mellow Sunday Morning music Fady El Mirage @ ReverbNation Last edited: Mar 04, 2015 08:13:19 |
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Posted on Mar 04 2015 08:30 AM
Got my copy of Modern Surf Classics in the mail yesterday. Pretty great stuff right there! Thanks Niels for starting the thread, making the introduction! —Fady El Mirage @ ReverbNation |
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Posted on Mar 04 2015 11:19 AM
I got it about a week ago, too. Haven't listened to it quite as much yet as I would have liked, but so far I'm really enjoying it, especially the first half. —Ivan |
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Posted on Mar 12 2015 05:31 PM
Wow, got the CD and what a fabulous album! Especially like the tracks Sea Saw, Dune Rider, Poseidon's Tears, and The Lonely Sea Sweeper. — |
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Posted on Mar 12 2015 06:52 PM
I continue to spin this and like it more and more every day. Truth in advertising - definitely " Modern Surf". Definitely Awesome! I take back my first post too about not being sure about Brown Room. Could be the way it sits in the flow of the record, or maybe it just grew on me on its own. Regardless, I'm digging it and pretty much every track here. Reattaching Brown Room to save folks bouncing back to the first page to check it out. —Fady El Mirage @ ReverbNation |
Joined: May 27, 2007 Posts: 254 Madrid, Spain |
Posted on Mar 14 2015 06:28 PM
This LP is super cool. Swami John Reis rules. |
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Posted on Sep 07 2015 09:49 AM
This is one of my favorite surf albums ever. It's moody like the Mermen, It's aggressive like Man or Astro-man? and it classic and haunting like the Centurions. Plus the album never (for me anyway) get's repetitive or hackneyed. Lonely Sea Sweeper, Brown Room and Wet Greek. Check em out of you haven't! —Sweater up! |
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