New World Relampagos

About the Artist
New World Relampagos features Pablo Herrero and Jose Luis Armenteros, the two founders of the '60s Spanish instrumental rock band, Los Relampagos, in performance with some of today's hottest young instro musicans. Current and past past affiliations of the project's participants include Dick Dale, Agent Orange, and the Space Cossacks.

Product Description
A new recording in 2001 featuring rock instrumentals by Spain's number one instrumental rock band, Los Relampagos. Never before released in the U.S. Spanish instro rock sounds with guitar, organ, bass, drums instrumentation. Stylistically, similar to the Shadows, Duane Eddy, Johnny & the Hurricanes, Dick Dale, and other '60s instrumental groups, but infused with Spanish melodies and the original sounds of Los Relampagos founders Pablo Herrero and Jose Luis Armenteros. Alternately sophisticated and classically-simple with a '60s ambience.

Tracks:

Himno A Valencia
Vacaciones En Espana
Cancion De Vagabundo De "Alma De Dios"
Numancia
Macarena
Cuando Cesa La Lluvia
El Tren De Las Tres Y Diez (3:10 to Yuma)
Bailarina En Espana
Cancion Espanola De "El Nino Judio"
Rio Perdido
Aster Nova
Sevilla
Arenas Movedizas
Nocturno
Relampagos
Estepas
El Arlequin Del Toledo

Album Description

A new recording in 2001 featuring rock instrumentals by Spain's number one instrumental rock band, Los Relampagos. Never before released in the U.S. Spanish instro rock sounds with guitar, organ, bass, drums instrumentation. Stylistically, similar to the Shadows, Duane Eddy, Johnny & the Hurricanes, Dick Dale, and other '60s instrumental groups, but infused with Spanish melodies and the original sounds of Los Relampagos founders Pablo Herrero and Jose Luis Armenteros. Alternately sophisticated and classically-simple with a '60s ambience.

Customer Reviews:

NEW WORLD RELAMPAGOS.......2001-04-10

A few years back while browsing around through my favorite local record store for surf music, I found a strange 12" vinyl LP with plain black & white graphics. The record was called GUITAR MOOD... no record label was listed on the sleeve! How odd?! I looked at the bands... I didn't recognize any of them. Naturally, I bought that curious piece of vinyl. When I got home and listened to music, I heard one band that since I've never forgotten... LOS RELAMPAGOS.

The original Los Relampagos was a Spanish instrumental rock & roll band with a prolific output of material throughout the 1960s. All this in a country where a dictatorship was in charge! Finally, after years of languishing in obscurity, Los Relampagos' brilliant music lives again. Dick Dale and Ventures fans take note: There is something else!

THE NEW WORLD RELAMPAGOS is an all-star shootout modern surf music greats: Ivan Pongracic of the SPACE COSSACKS on lead guitar, Sam Bolle of AGENT ORANGE on bass, and Dusty Watson of SLACKTONE/DICK DALE/AGENT ORANGE/BOO-YA TRIBE on drums. The CD host a number of surprise guests... most importantly keyboardist Pablo Herrero and guitarist Jose Luis Armenteros of the original LOS RELAMPAGOS.

The music on NEW WORLD RELAMPAGOS ranges from traditional Spanish-style rock instrumentals, to haunting ballads, and spaghetti-westerns fills out the CD. It rocks right out to the end! Songs like "Macerena" (don't confuse it with that stupid dance), "El Arlequin Del Toledo", "Aster Nova" are rich in atmosphere and mystery. As you may have guessed, THE NEW WORLD RELAMPAGOS aren't your typical surf band. Unlike Dick Dale or the Ventures, you're not going to hear a musically degenerate song like "Wipeout" on this album. Rather than play fast, NEW WORLD RELAMPAGOS have the ability to bend and wrap chords with the shimmering, hyper-reverbed guitar sound similar to other 1960s European bands like the Shadows, Spotniks, and the Outlaws... and then they take it up a notch!

This CD is a classic! A must have for all instrumental rock collectors and fans. Listening to the NEW WORLD RELAMPAGOS will provoke you go out and seek out LOS RELAMPAGOS' albums for yourself....

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