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Heavy Trash

Noir

    This vinyl-only special edition record from Jon Spencer’s alter-ego Heavy Trash is an album of previously unreleased wig outs, instrumentals, outtakes and other unhinged gems recorded throughout the band’s lifetime.

    Jon Spencer and Matt Verta-Ray, the men known as Heavy Trash, never thought that anyone could be watching or listening, let alone recording, when they perpetrated these middle-of-the-night flip-outs, improvisations, instrumentals and dangerous experiments in unchecked soul exposition and naked desire. Had they known the tape was rolling we would never have this demented document of darkness and decay. However, their demons have come to light and you are now invited to dance through the dusky shadows of a musical group on the edge.

    ‘Noir!’ is not for the weak, the uninitiated, dabblers or dilettantes. Seriés Aph?nos has gone to special pains to ensure that this record will never be a hit. You cannot give the people what they want, nor can you give this record back.

    This is the 7th instalment of Seriés Aph?nos - a leftof- centre vinyl library concentrating on instrumentals, soundtracks and strange treasures from hidden corners. Previous instalments include the first vinyl release of Krzysztof Komeda’s soundtrack to Roman Polanski’s ‘Dance Of The Vampires’, Zarelli’s ‘Soft Rains’ (a sci-fi musical featuring Leonard Nimoy narrating a Ray Bradbury tale), and Cremator’s synthfest ‘Clear Air Turbulence’, amongst others.

    Heavy Trash

    Midnight Soul Serenade

      Jon Spencer and Matt Verta-Ray continue to ransack 50s, 60s, and 70s, punk, blues and rock'n'roll on this their third album, "Midnight Soul Serenade", which is already being cited as Jon Spencer's best work since "Orange". With Heavy Trash, the full throttle rollercoaster ride of Spencer\'s Blues Explosion, has slowed a little, but there\'s still plenty of the swagger and charm that hooked us all in from the start. The album sees Spencer croon and holler his way through a collection of blues, rockabilly and punk-rock\'n\'roll, with Verta-Ray\'s guitar licks, organ and rattling snare providing the backdrop. There\'s even a spoken word track too: Although it doesn\'t quite fit with the rest of the album somehow, the dark, surreal "The Pill" is Spencer at his storytelling best and one of my favourite tracks on the album. The Blues man is still No 1!!!


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