Monday, 31 March 2025

Ferni & The Vascos "Summer Storm" 2015

This is my second installment of my immersion in Surf-Rock, with some new subgenres compared to my first...
...Surf in one of its most accelerated forms, captured in Summer Storm; the quarter-note bass drum rhythm characteristic of country but with melodies evoking Native Americans in Indigena; more of the classic surf in Looped Party, with a play on tonalities that lends richness and confusion in equal measure; the broken rhythm of Sinking and modal harmony, which gives it a certain sense of anguish, nuanced by the "squeals of the wah pedal," and finally the "soulful" groove of Dangling Hips, in the style of Black guitarists of the 60s like Freddie King.
Inspired by film noir, I propose a narrative about the order of the songs. Listen to this series of events with your imagination:
On a Pacific island, a few kilometers off the coast, a nighttime party (Looped Party) is being held on a yacht. In it, the guests dance naked in a lustful frenzy amidst curves and alcohol. One of the boys is mesmerized by the girl's hips, as she dances to this song with her back to him (Dangling Hips). But at the same time, inland, something is happening. The indigenous people are worried about their harvest; it has barely rained in over a month, and the tribe's great magician is going to do something to change this desperate situation: a rain dance (Indígena). With his efforts and the tribe's dances, clouds begin to appear in the sky, which soon precipitate into a furious summer storm (Summer Storm), very unfortunate for the yacht's guests, who begin to lose stability until the waves become so aggressive and unbearable that they spit everyone off the yacht, who are now struggling between life and death (Sinking).
I hope you enjoy this album! Thanks for visiting and your contributions are much appreciated. Best regards! - bandcamp

trax:
01 Looped Party 02 Indígena 03 Dangling Hips 04 Summer Storm 05 Sinking

1 comment:

RYP said...

Ferni & The Vascos "Summer Storm"
gitit! no pw
https://mega.nz/file/sXAXgJSD#-EjP_XcQnvdSOhDk1be3eVrmU3blxzGc3hXYFGkVDF0