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KING
KHAN & THE SHRINES
 Cargo
HAZ 030
KING KHAN ...and the shrines / Mr. Supernatural
Blazing brass levitating over a bubbling witches
brew of raw scintillating Rhythm.n’Blues and
deep fried rock n’soul. Like a rabid hurricane
the SHRINES boost their audience - a heterogeneous
batch of punks and junks, nerds and maniacs, of
the brothers and sisters of Rock and Soul, of toad-lickers,
of the apostles of the new Eros, pill-spinners and
mushroom-lovers, of anarchists and sectarians, of
freaks and “normal” people - into a
fiery inferno of Soul and R&B, Cajun and Boogaloo.
KING KHAN is convulsively quivering with a staring
gaze, the wooden sceptre in his hand, voodoo-baton
with totem-skull, as he reigns over the nine-headed
Hydra-band. Enmeshed by Bamboorella’s ritual
go-go-dance, the Master’s scar-covered bare
torso suggests that the “Maharadscha of Soul”
himself had ripped the fangs of his alligator-neck-lace
out of the gaping jaws of a swamp-reptile lacking
any sense of humour. Concerts resembling spirituals,
alike occult consecrations have founded the Legend
of the Indo-Canadian Voodoo-Priest, who is said
to have provoked an earthquake in the French city
of Colmar by a single stroke of his Baton. On the
other hand it is an undisputable fact that KING
KHAN AND THE SHRINES have rediscovered the lost
traditions of Stax and Motown, and that they have
spiked them with a sordid dose of insubordination
and psychedelic soul power, carrying Soul music
back into the garages and bringing Punk back into
snobby parlours all across Europe. Screamin’
Jay Hawkins, Bo Diddley, The mighty Hannibal, Curtis
Mayfield and James Brown stood godfather to this
just as Stiv Bators, Jello Biafra, Johnny Thunders
or Joey Ramone did. MR. SUPERNATURAL is KING KHAN’s
second album-vinyl-gravure. It invites you to a
sultry jungle-séance inside the Swamp-Cosmodrome,
where Hougan King Khan gets his mojo working to
the sounds of pure blood curdling Soul and R&B
with a touch of that sweer New Orleans Funk to make
all them Voodoo-dolls seize the dancefloor and shimmey
all their blues away.. |
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contains:
- Biography & Info
- Hi-Res Picture
- Actual Hi-Res Albumcover
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