MANFRED HUBLER & SIEGFRIED SCHWAB - VAMPYROS LESBOS - RARE VINYL LP

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MANFRED HUBLER & SIEGFRIED SCHWAB - VAMPYROS LESBOS - RARE VINYL LP

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MANFRED HUBLER & SIEGFRIED SCHWAB - VAMPYROS LESBOS - MOTEL RECORDS - ROOM 1 - VINYL LP

1995 Motel Records/Crippled Dick Hot Wax LP ROOM 1: Vampyros Lesbos: Sexadelic Dance from the original Motion Picture Soundtracks Conducted and Written by Manfred Hübler and Siegfried Schwab. Tracks 1,2,3,11 performed by the Vampires' Sound Incorporation. Recorded 1969.

There's nothing like the music on this LP. It must be heard to be experienced, and maybe you heard that track from the Quentin Tarantino movie Jackie Brown (the one with Pam Grier, Rober Forester, Sam Jackson, Bridget Fonda and Robert DeNiro).

Here's some reviews: For diehard fans of low-budget cult cinema, Jess Franco is among the great directors--his style somewhere between European versions of Roger Corman's Mondo sexploitation and Andy Warhol's hardcore improv. His films Vampyros Lesbos, The Devil Came from Akasava, and Mrs. Hyde, She Kills in Ecstasy--all made in 1970 and starring Franco's doomed Spanish seductress Soledad Miranda--perfected "horrotica," Franco's melange of B-grade horror and twisted erotica. Collecting original music from the films' soundtracks, Vampyros Lesbos: Sexadelic Dance Party pays tribute to Franco, Miranda (who died in a 1971 car crash), and the films they made together. German composers Manfred Hubler and Siegfried Schwab (recording as Vampires' Sound Incorporation) created music sufficiently groovy and go-go to accompany Franco's freaked-out vision. Their crazy sounds are a speed-hopped swinger's bash of blaring trumpet, booming trombone, slinky organ, and spacy sitar, with a beefy foundation of mod guitar, bass, and drums. Eccentrically titled instrumentals like "The Lions and the Cucumber," "Droge CX 9," and "The Six Wisdoms of Aspasia" manage to be psychedelic in the way of both the Doors' haunting rock and the Fifth Dimension's up-up-and-away pop. Music ripe for revival, Sexadelic Dance Party falls somewhere between the glorious lounge orchestrations of Esquivel and the cheap Casio-funk porn music championed by bands like the Beastie Boys. It's just one more nugget mined from the overflowing heaps of past decades' trash culture. --Roni Sarig

Hipness has come full circle with the rise in popularity of vintage Sixties and Seventies exotica film soundracks. Some of the veteran studio musicians play on these sountracks and do so with abandon and laser-like percision. It's a rare opprotunity to hear usually staid studio hands playing with an over-the-top enthusiasm they seldom have a chance to display. Hired studio guns have a thankless task when they back well known singers. The producer usually orders them to stay in the background and cheeky solos are regarded as taboo, for fear of upstaging the "artiste" who is paying them handsomely for their time. "The Vampyros Lesbos Sexadelic Dance Party" is an example just how good it can get when these expert musicians are allowed to rip. Beatnick hipster arrangements with plenty of tempo shifts and thematic improvisation. Blaring Stax horn sections, wild psychedelic fuzz box guitar, jazzy organ runs, strutting funkadelic drum and bass, and an occasional glockenspiel or sitar for freakout effect. Composers Manfred Hubler and Siegfred Schwab toss this melange of styles into a Cusinart blender and hit the "puree" botton. The musicans of Vampyros Lesbos play lounge jazz, funk, psychedelica, mambo, samba, europop, ethnic music, rock and roll and just plain old kitsch with equal facility. This isn't schlock however... the music here is straight from cool cat school of pop fusion as practiced by Serge Gainsbourg, Lee Hazelwood, Jimmy Webb,Ennio Morricone and the great Fellini sountrack composer, Nino Rota. Granted, Hubler and Schwab's soundtracks freely borrowed from other sources, but the final product was a fascinating pastiche of the great popular music of their era. Detractors of exotica soundtracks often berate them as background music written for go-go dance parties or sordid sex scenes. Man!...those cats just can't dig it. They should buy a one-way ticket back to Squaresville and do the funky chicken til the cows come home.

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