Miss Wong by Watang!
Watang! Is a surf-instro project led by El Sentenza, former banjo player from the Legendary Kid Combo, together with Marla’O, guitar player from the all-female Italian garage queens The Cleopatras. This project was born at the beginning of last summer ‘13, with the help of Barba San, from the Italian beat band The Albinos, Cecilia Ann, famous bass based indie-pendent songwriter and Mimmi, one of the best and eclectic jazz drummers of the Garda Lake area. The former idea was to create a standard surf combo, then after a couple of weeks in the basement, the project took a different shape, mixing the musical tastes of all the musicians involved. The original surf sound took a different direction, moving towards the surf revival of the 90’s, the garage beat revival, and the traditional Oriental melodies from the Far East area. All the imaginary and the artwork was inspired by the oriental Z movies, martial arts and fancied mysterious stories from ancient east. The band wear original Kung Fu kimonos and the (dragon) ladies are dressed like famous almond eyed movies star actresses. Main influences are bands like The Bomboras, Ghastly Ones, Satan’s Pilgrims, mixed with The Ventures, Takeshi Terauchi, The Fuzztones, Gravedigger V, Roky Erikson, The Pixies, The Cramps, Link Wray, Johnny Thunders, Dick Dale, Question Mark and the Mysterians...
This first rate Italian Garage/Surf band comes with their own brand of wyld instrumental kink, mixed the influences of The Bomboras, Fuzztones, The Ventures and Dick Dale with bloody Far East vibes. Hi-Profilic Reverb/Fuzz/Organ driven tunes as ya all wanna meet here on Surfadelic. Their sound creates a cinematic surf experience like it was made for some lost 70's Hong Kong Kung-Fu flick, alternative soundtrack for "Enter the Dragon" or some Takashi Miike KILLER extravaganza. One of the best new surfin' stuff I heard lately, so don't you dare miss it! Say... WATANG!
Tracklist
| 1. | Return Of The Dragon Lady | 3:22 |
| 2. | Wok Don't Run | 2:15 |
| 3. | Surfzilla | 2:50 |
| 4. | Barba Kutsushita | 2:16 |
| 5. | Chopstick Joe | 2:40 |
| 6. | Miss Wong | 2:33 |
| 7. | Night Boat To Saigon | 2:45 |
| 8. | Sing Sing Singapore | 2:07 |
| 9. | Siam Cat | 3:34 |
| 10. | Monte Baldo Like Fujiama | 2:39 |
Credits
releases 02 March 2015
LIMITED EDITION 300 COPIES ON BLACK VINYL
(c) & (p)
Green Cookie records, P.O. Box 50501, 54013 Thessaloniki, Greece. www.greencookie.gr
Area Pirata records, Via Manetti 5, 56031 Bientina (Pisa), Italy
www.areapirata.com
License
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Area Pirata was born in 2001 immediately tended to Garage, R'n'R, HC-Punk…
We care about reissue of old records no more available or unissued as well as new records recorded from bands on activities with an attitude alike ours.
We tought and we still think that our attitude and determination could be a factor to help those real underground scenes not depending strictly on the kind of muisc!