$16.00
"Charlie Megira is probably the best guitar player alive today" - Jay Davis
Recorded and mixed in Jaffa, Israel, by Charlie Megira.
Mastered in Oakland, CA by Greg Ashley (Gris Gris)
Deluxe gatefold Double-LP. 100% virgin vinyl.
Digital download card included.
RIYL: Link Wray, Blank Dogs, Warsaw, My Bloody Valentine, Wire, Eraserhead soundtrack, Charlie Feathers
Sample tracks here: facebook.com/guitarsandbongos
“Whoahhhh! Don’t know exactly what just hit me. The photos of the band on the inside gatefold look like they were shot by Jim Jarmusch’s grandfather for an early 1950s road trip home movie that ended up being used as evidence in a homicide trial. The press material claims the band is Israeli, but the only evidence of that here is the Old Testament whoopass they put on musical convention. And the music? It’s hard to begin: I guess there doesn’t have to be any separation between garage rock, art noise, 1950s rock, 2050s roll, shoegaze, experimental experiments against nature, inside out jazz, soundtrack music, ambient strangeness, punk, and the guitar parts on the manliest Smiths records, but until now there always has been. And the guitar playing? What the hell? To be that good at all this stuff is kinda weird in itself, but to be willing to weird out when you could clearly be heralded as a virtuoso in any one genre pigeonhole makes Charlie the free-est, most odd flight pattern flying pigeon this side of the Wailing Wall.” - Roctober
SIDE A
1. THE RETURN OF THE RUSSIAN FROGMEN THAT DIED AND CAME BACK TO LIFE AS STRANGE LOOKING RADIOACTIVE CREATURES
2. SABABA ONE
3. RHYTHM OF HATE
4. AT THE ELVIS INN
5. NO WAVE EXERCISE
6. EXISTENCE
7. THE WALL OF DEATH
8. U.S.F
SIDE B
1. AND NOW I WANNA DROWN IN YOUR DARK DREAMY EYES
2. BOO
3. BEACH BUMS MUST DIE
4. THE STRANGE AND BIZARRE TALE OF THE BOY WHO HAD ONE TESTICLE TOO MANY
5. 333
6. (USED TO BE...) PSYCHIC YOUTH
7. ELVIS IS NOT DEAD
8. SMACK DAB
SIDE C
1. BENEATH THE UNDERGROUND
2. THE VALLEY OF TEARS
3. MAO/MAO
4. HERE COMES YOUR MAMA
5. ODE TO A COCKSUCKER
6. HOMELESS BODY
7. SABABA?
SIDE D
1. FREAK JUNIOR
2. PSYCHIC YOUTH-2
3. ANOTHER NO WAVE EXERCISE
4. STREET MACHINE
5. DA HOMOGREASER STOMP
6. ALL TUNED UP AND READY TO GO
7. JE NE PARLE PAS FRANCAIS
8. DEAD GIRL BLUES