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We are three southern european friends who LOVE instrumentals.
Formed in 2008 on the French “Silver Coast » by three musicians involved in the Surf, Noise and Garage Rock scenes (The Irradiates, Stef & Arno, The Taikonauts, Antena Tres, Shunatao…), Arno De Cea & The Clockwork Wizards try to set Surf Music in the modern age by adding Punk Hard Core intensity and Noise Rock inventiveness. To set the things clearer, it’s like having Dick Dale swapping his guitar for a flamethrower while being backed by a robust, frenetic and tortuous rhythm section. Throughout the years, those « Brutal Surf Music » purveyors used to tour around the European continent from Lisbon to Berlin, Alkmaar to Beograd, without forgetting Livorno to eat an ice cream by the Mediterranean sea. 2021 sees the band releasing its fifth album, « Retrofuturisme volume II » (EU: ATRDR/Calico Records/Les Productions de l’Impossible – USA: Ottis Media Records) to complete a rich discography also loaded with some split records and several compilations appearances. The trio here reveals its interest for some musical freaks like Sun Ra or Chrome contributing to set the band a little more appart from « traditional » Surf Music, and showing its ability to have an unusual rhythmic and melodic approach to the genre. All that was once resumed by a member of the audience assisting at one of their shows : “Well, it is the most well organised sonic bloody mess I have ever experienced in my life!” Fredrik Thordendal.
This site is mostly live performances of music, but there are a few random instrusions of other things. The music is a mix of instrumental rock and roll, garage and some more miscellaneous things. The performers are local bands from the Colorado Front Range (Denver) area, plus visitors there from elsewhere and some I have encountered in excursions elsewhere, so far only to California. I think searching the channel on instrumental and surf will pull up what would interest a surf music enthusiast. Corrections solicited.
A site I’ve been working on since 2016 with reviews and information on every surf/hot rod album release from the 1960s
Sierra Surf Music Camp: surf music and camping... what more could you ask for? Paul Johnson, Dusty Watson, Ron Eglit, John Blair, Matt Quilter, Paul The Pyronaut, Ferenc Dobronyi, The Brett Cole and Timmy Stephenson are you instructors.
An original off our upcoming EP - "No Biggie for Bongo" ~ Get your bananas ready!
Surf/Instro band of Hollywood, CA since 06' featuring former members of Those Lordsburg Lads, The Rub, The Clients, The Sea Serpents, The Invaders, Mr. Poseidon & The Adventurers.
Splashback's page at Myspace. The former band of Dana Vincent and Bill Epps.
High energy Surf Rock from Victoria B.C. Canada!
Los Tiros is a surf, western, punk band from Guatemala.
