Alien Cowboys – Lift

“Returning after their critically acclaimed second album Analogtherapy, Alien Cowboys are back in saddle again with 2002: Other Space. Lead guitar ace Ralph Perucci and rhythm guitarist Bruce Stevenson once again team up with Ian Thomson (drums) and Greg Jones (bass) and the resulting album is quite enormous in scope. With it’s sky-wide jazz-rock groove, 2002: Other Space is an all around winner. Assisted by production and engineering experts…read more

During the mid to late 60’s, the Shanes were one of the most popular bands in Sweden along with the Hep Stars, the Tages, and Ola & The Janglers. In 1963, they cut their first single named “Gunfight Saloon” , an instrumental track which went into Sweden’s Top Ten. Many of the Shanes early singles were instrumental tunes with cowboy themed titles…read more

One of my favorite 70’s “disco” groups. Infectious grooves – mostly instrumental with some actual songwritng skills and not thump heavy like so many others of that period. “Magic Fly” was a big international hit and will jog your memory when you hear it. Get your groove on – retro- that is. 01. Magic Fly (original version) (4:17)02. Running In The City…read more

This is a great panorama of Western Swing from its origins with Bob Wills and Milton Brown working together inthe Original Light Crust Dough Boys in the early 1930s to Tex Williams’ great electric swing band from just after WWII. I’ve had these sides since Columbia issue an earlier version on LP more than 20 years ago. This music has little…read more

More gold from Ace. Here we have 26 more of the same outstanding remastered old school surf, a mix of hits and rarities, compiled and annotated by the boys from Pipeline. Six of the tracks are new to CD entirely. A must for all instrumental fans and all surf music collectors. Get Vol. 1 here in the archives and catch that wave…read more

First impression, strange name, the album is as advertised, Tyler puts his harp to good use in most songs. Although it contains 11 covers and only one original it sounds more like Aerosmith than Just Push Play did. Billed as an album where ‘Aerosmith does the blues’ do not expect a blues record. It is more closely comparible to the bands…read more

If you’re a big fan of fuzz guitar instrumental music then Cyclerific Sounds is just what the doctor ordered. Detroit’s the Silencers specialise in the type of mean, down and dirty biker rock that made Davie Allan a big success in the ’60s. Right from the first track, “Mouldy’s Theme,” the fuzz throttle is opened up wide and it pretty much it stays that way throughout the…read more

This is a classic. Before digital sampling became the norm, Bernie Krause pioneered it all, with his environmental recordings, with hydrophone technology and technique, with his superb ear for pitch and timbre, and with his ideas for meshing their occurrence in natural and animal sounds with human-made music. Kids love this AND adults do too. Bernie Kraus’s “Gorillia’s in…read more

This Boston-area instrumental act first came to my attention with a stellar live version of the song “Carl Needs A Pill” on the compilation CD called “Attack of the Killer Surf Guitars” (Shanchie 1997). The studio version of that song makes its appearance,along with 10 others, on this eponymous CD. The instrumetal sounds of the Ray Corvair trio (Guitar…read more