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...according to our Dave on Fri 15 Jul, 2011.
Yet another fascinating musical oddity from Mr. Votel and his cronies at the wonderful Finders Keepers. When not jaunting around the globe, finding musical curios like a cross between John Peel and Indiana Jones, Andy Votel can sometimes be found round the back of Threshers, rummaging through the bins looking for a cheap cider hit. This soundtrack recorded by the late Don Gere is like a film score era Ry Cooder. It's a very rootsy sounding album that has numerous nods to country music and psych rock. It at times reminds me of David Alexander Hess and his soundtrack to 70s shocker "The Last House On The Left". This soundtrack is from an 1971 exploitation film, which combines two different bedfellows...the outlaw biker and the traditional horror film...to predictably (probably) schlocky effect. The movie I haven't seen, but I wager the soundtrack is wayyyy better than the movie that was made on a shoestring budget and featured real bikers mincing about. The music on this soundtrack is a heady mixture of drugged up mantras and drawn out psyche rock jams. It has a great sound though does this album, and a lot of the tracks are strangely haunting.They have a real dusty, panoramic feel and the composition is damn good. It comes with an extensive book about the production and has enough facts and tales in it to stop you getting scared while listening. If Charles Manson spent his time making film scores and less time mincing about writing "PIGGY" on peoples walls and looking like a mixture of a gerbil and a man cast out of Hades*, this is what it might sound like. An album worth investigating.
*Dave does not in anyway think Charles Manson looks like a hamster. He, like many others, thinks that Charles is "a really swell guy who you would do anything for..." RIGHT GUYSSS!?!?
"Pre-certified biker psych from the hillbilly Haxan. Amazing!” - Sean Canty (Demdike Stare).
"Echoes of strung-out film score-era Ry Cooder, way beyond his(southern) comfort zone and locked in the loft with Ya Ho Wha 13. I love this record!” - Rick Tomlinson (Voice Of The Seven Woods / Thunders).
Overqualified Krautisch kommune kountry and mock-rock for cinematic cycledelic monster cocktail. Lychanthropic Z- Movie soundtrack by Don Gere (Curt Boettcher/Kid Dynamite/Don & Stevie) welding motorik redneck funk with broken Eastern promises.
Imagine marrying Amon Duul I to Sandy Bull in a phony black mass with Skip Spence and The Godz as bridesmaids.
B-Movie junkies gather round and prepare yourself for what could only be described as a cinematic speedball.
Take a combined hit of two of the most potent strains of toxic cinema, dress it up in ritualistic robes and make it dance to the beat of a stoned, motoric, country-commune soundtrack.
Like an exploito double bill where both films merge into a single feature this directorial debut by an ex-Roger Corman protege and future Russ Meyer art director (another heady cocktail) is the product of one writing duos fleeting time in the driving seat as the moviedrome marathon approached its dwindling finish line.
‘Werewolves On Wheels’ emerged in 1971 in a climate where the b-movie genre of the previous two decades began to make way for the early glimpses of imported slasher films and video nasties. American projection booths were frantically casting the net for surefire domestic, cheaply made hits desperately looking for new ideas to milk their legacy of all-American biker flicks and teenage monster-movies which lead to film companies taking gambles on new screenplays from young writers and directors born out the free-wheel generation.
1. Werewolves On Wheels (Main Theme)
2. Mount Shasta Home
3. Ritual
4. “One”
5. Ritual 2
6. The Devil’s Advocates
7. The Devil’s Advocates (Reprise)
8. One Foot In Heaven
9. Burning Grass
10. Tarot
11. Tarot Trail
12. Dust Bowl
13. The Devil’s Advocates 2
14. Ritual 3
15. Werewolves On Wheels (End Theme)
16. Radio Record 1 (Bonus Track)
17. Radio Record 2 (Bonus Track)
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