Just because the vocs are so damn great!! Shit shit. Just mixed this. The third album coming up. 12 tunes  but this one is totally scarry cool!!!

The VanCooths   Pure And Kind  3rd album

Unknown Fuzzed Psych Afro-dynamite from the East Africa with an infectious chorus that erupts into pure psych-rock madness... Super fuzzed guitar and acid organ over the "Asante Sana"(*) mantra. Dig it!. 

Killer stuff. 100% tailor made for the dancefloor. 

(*) Asante Sana means "Thank You very Much" in Swahili

Said / Wyne Barnes - Asante Sana Pt.1 (Studio Sawa, STD 004). Kenyan Fuzzed Psych Afro-dynamite

Original recording in the Zeeland Dunes for oers song. Justr wrote it a second before. NBo lyrics yet. You hear the birds in the trees!

Zeeland Tweede Sessie 4

The Monks' "Hamburg Recordings 1967" is available on 12" vinyl and CD here: 
The Monks – a strange, rare group with a story that sounds like a drunk friend’s generous hyperbole. A group of American G.I.s stationed in Germany on the precipice of Western cultural revolution starts playing music loosely connected to the rock n’ roll craze, contrastingly incorporating a critical and often offensive avant-garde edge. Nothing was off limits — screeching vocals, dark aesthetics, staccato-strummed banjo, sardonic lyricism, critiques of the Vietnam War and full monk costuming down to the tonsure. When viewed on the whole, it seems like an art school student’s senior thesis on what the craze means and its future possibilities. Due in large part to original Polydor vinyl collectability and years in the word-of-mouth hype machine, their legend and cult status has steadily blossomed since their last shows in 1967.

Fast forward to 2017, the crew at Third Man, already huge fans, are presented with an honest-to-God treasure trove of original Monks photos, newspaper clippings, business cards, letterhead, contracts, postcards and, yes, analog tapes, containing trailblazing, wild compositions completely unheard by public ears.

“I’m Watching You” would have been recorded on February 28th, 1967 at the same sessions that would produce the Monks’ final single “Love Can Tame the Wild” b/w “He Went Down to the Sea.” The remaining four songs were recorded after hours in the Top Ten Club later that year, just prior to the break-up of the band.

These songs have been unreleased for 50 years and are quite possibly the last music left to be heard by this legendary band.

Hamburg Recordings 1967

THE MONKS Hamburg Recordings 1967

The Monks - I'm Watching You

Historical recording for me I thought was lost forever. Sounds shit but its listenable enough haha. This is after years of trying and trying and trying the first tune that rolled out of my hands which I thought had something and could work for a band. I was just starting something with Rob Musters, formerly of Punk band the Mirandas. This would involve into the Four one and Only's. The Trini Lopez kinda groove and sarcastic lyrics where a great startpoint for anything coming up. I played everything and pingponged the hell outa my tiny studentroom and cassettedeck. 1983!

The VanCooths Pure And Kind 3rd album

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