VA - Twang ’n’ Tumbleweed, Surf Goes Spaghetti (A Butterboy Compilation) CD1+CD2+CD3

SURF & SPAGHETTI WESTERN

VA - Twang ’n’ Tumbleweed, Surf Goes Spaghetti (A Butterboy Compilation) CD1+CD2+CD3

This ain’t your typical surf set, and it’s sure as hell no western pastiche. Twang ’n’ Tumbleweed is a journey with a reverb-drenched backbone and the sun-bleached drama of spaghetti western aesthetics. It conjures up dusty highways and crashing waves, six-strings slung like six-shooters. This genre mashup takes the tremolo picking, splashy spring reverb, and guitar-led heroics of ’60s surf, and steeps it deep in the shadowy, cinematic world of Italian westerns. It’s where Ennio Morricone meets Dick Dale at high noon, where desert dust tangles with salt spray, and every track tells a tale in tremolo and twang.

This triple-volume 81 track bounty of surf-wired spaghetti western instrumentals aren’t your uncle’s surf mix. It’s a twang-forward, genre-hopping tribute to the unsung corners of instrumental storytelling. Morricone themes get reimagined in sunburned garages; Japanese surf acts blaze trails through echo chambers; and rare tracks reemerge from deep vaults like tumbleweeds from forgotten reels. Acts span Uruguay, Japan, Finland, Australia, Peru, surf rock as a global dialect, all filtered through dusty cowboy boots and weathered cacti.

Volume 1     We kick off with Bradipos IV’s widescreen take on “Titoli.” Then it’s subterranean noir from The Infrareds (“Matte Blood”), twang-scorched reverb from Japan’s Fuzziyama Surfers, and a gunfighter’s twitch from The Treble Spankers’ “The Good, the Bad & the Ugly.” Treasure seekers will nod at Link Wray’s alternate take on “Comanche”, a primordial stomp that predates surf but shaped its very soul. The Reigning Monarchs wink through “Cowboy Shirt,” and Davie Allan & The Arrows rip pavement with “Grogs Hog.” By the time the stylus lifts, the dust hasn’t just risen, it’s howling.

Volume 2     Here comes the high noon crescendo. The Kilaueas ignite flamenco flair on “Malagueña,” while The Thunderchiefs tear through Texas twang on “Drag-N-Fly.” Martin Cilia’s shimmering “Koko Head” casts mirages across the plains, while The Manakooras slow-dance through surf noir steelwork. Mikelangelo and The Tin Star’s “No Sign of a Pipeline” might be the spiritual anchor here; cabaret menace meets outlaw cool. And The Longboards’ “Requiem for Link Wray” nods reverently to the ghost who started it all. “El Toro” rides again through two distinct takes, by Surfmen and Men in Gray Suits, retold like a myth shared around desert campfires.

Volume 3     Now comes the twilight, windswept, cinematic, and soaked in noir. The Tomorrow Men surf Bowie’s “Moonage Daydream” across space and scrub. Chingón’s “Severina” blends Latin heat and dusk-lit danger. Cadillac Hitmen, Aqua Velvets, and Madeira stretch the canvas wide, painting vast sonic mesas in tremolo shadow. 

Rarity hunters: don’t miss Robert & The Roboters’ delightfully oddball “Emmanuelle in Thailand”, all sleaze and sleuth, surf-style. And then the curtain falls with Dead Rocks’ “Surf Man,” a 9-minute sprawl of desert-drenched glory, like a final reel unearthed from a long-lost Leone epic.

Twang ’n’ Tumbleweed is a map, a genre-hopping, myth-making trail through outposts of surf and spaghetti. It is strung together by tremolo ghosts, duct-taped amps, and riders who never looked back. It rescues outliers, reveres the legends, and uncovers hidden jewels buried in the sands of soundtracking history.

That’s the sound at the heart of spaghetti surf, a deliciously twisted fusion of surf rock and spaghetti western soundtrack music. I now hand the reins over to you to explore an entire sun-drenched, reverberating frontier.   (B)

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Track lists

CD1

01 Bradpios IV - Titoli 2:47 2003

02 Link Wray & The Wraymen - Comanche (Alternate Version) 2:41 1959

03 Infrareds - Matte Blood 2:50 2004

04 Penetrators - Guns Don't Argue 2:56 2002

05 Falcons - El Nino 3:47 1999

06 Death Valley - larry storch trilogy 2:36 1992

07 Fuzziyama Surfers - My Wave 2:46 2022

08 Derangers - Rio Sangre 3:45 2014

09 Black Flamingos - Hour of the coyote 2:14 2017

10 Treble Spankers - The Good, The Bad & The Ugly 2:27 1994

11 Reigning Monarchs - Cowboy Shirt 2:35 2009

12 Jars - Mexican Lowrider 4:08 2009

13 Surfaders - Tequila Matador 4:12 2021

14 Terrorsaurs - Monkey Tremolo 2:00 2011

15 Daytonas - Baked Beans & Chicken 2:24 1993

16 Moe Greene Specials - Quintana Sixteen 2:27 2005

17 Space Cossacks - Solaris Stomp 3:16 1998

18 3 Balls of Fire - The Ecstacy of Gold 2:39 2002

19 Bomboras - The Good, The Bad and The Single Fin 4:16 1998

20 Fuzziyama Surfers - Fuzziyama Wave 2:52 2022

21 Dirty Fuse - Dark Sands 2:27 2014

22 Davie Allan & The Arrows - Grogs Hog 1:56 1968

23 Kilaueas - Surf Demon 1:56 2014

24 Sandblasters - Tarantula Taco 3:04 1996

25 Brazil 2001 - Cactus 1:43 1999

26 TomorrowMen - The Ballad of Alf and Bonnie 3:20 2017

27 Brillantinas - Da Cruella Sun 3:31 2002

CD2

01 Kilaueas - Malaguena 2:19 2003

02 Fathoms - The Palomino 3:49 2007

03 Thunderchiefs - Drag-N-Fly 2:08 2007

04 Men in Gray Suits - El Toro 1:55 2017

05 Surfmen - El Toro 2:12 1962

06 Reefrider - El Dorado 2:22 2005

07 Laika & The Cosmonauts - Floating 2:59 1995

08 Pyronauts - Funeral March of a Marionette 2:31 2005

09 Los Twangers - Back to Sonora 2:57 2012

10 Reverb Syndicate - La Balada De Senor Esquivel 2:55 2007

11 Five Outsiders - El Hobo 2:40 2004

12 Manakooras - Black Sea 4:29 2019

13 Aqua Velvets - Mexican Rooftop Afternoon 3:40 2001

14 Los Coronas - Hacha de Guerra 3:41 2005

15 Martin Cilia - Koko Head 3:35 2013

16 Cadillac Hitmen - Desert Floor (Mirage) 5:01 1997

17 Los Coronas - High Sierra 4:32 2003

18 Outlaws - Ambush 2:19 1961

19 Outlaws - Western Sunset 2:07 1961

20 Mikelangelo and The Tin Star - No Sign of A Pipeline 3:43 2011

21 Pollo Del Mar - Navajo Joe 2:57 2002

22 Kilaueas - Caravan 3:25 2003

23 Madeira - Across the Dunes 3:54 2005

24 Barbwires - La Caja Del Muerto 3:40 2008

25 Planet Seven - Long Ride 2:03 2001

26 Longboards - Requiem for Link 1:50 2006

27 Twin Tones - Espiritu Del Desierto 2:57 2005

CD3

01 Treble Spankers - Araban 5:17 1994

02 TomorrowMen - Moonage Daydream 3:55 2011

03 Satelliters - el loco de la sierra 4:29 1999

04 Spytones - Surfing Salzburg 4:23 2010

05 In The West - Once Upon A Time in The West 4:23 2002

06 Hellbenders - The Hellbenders 3:59 1967

07 Irreversible Slacks - The Big Gundown 2:26 2005

08 Langhorns - The Vice of Killing 4:55 2002

09 Bambi Molesters - Gun for Ringo 3:01 2001

10 The Supersónicos (Uruguay) - A Espuma Dos Dias 2:20 2002

11 Los Plantronics - From Mecca to Mescalito 2:49 2003

12 Atlantics - The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly 3:04 2002

13 Tormentos - Ride Sunset Devil 3:32 2009

14 Robert & The Roboters - Emmanuelle in Thailand 2:52 2005

15 Black Flamingos - The unknown rider 2:24 2017

16 Ninth Wave - Outlaw Trail 2:48 2004

17 Los Coronas - Fuerte Comansi 3:14 2013

18 Los Plantronics - Hang 'Em High 1:29 2015

19 Reigning Monarchs - Black Sweater Massacre 2:11 2013

20 Tiki Creeps - Curse of Kona 3:43 2014

21 Chingón - Severina 3:01 2004

22 Los Stomias (Peru) - Death Curve 2:46 2015

23 Brent J. Cooper - Sixty Seconds to What 3:23 2005

24 Culebra and Thee Evolution Surf School (Argentina) - Sweet Anna 3:42 2020

25 Danny Amis & Twin Tones - Showdown 3:55 2011

26 Fendermen - Ghost Riders in The Sky 4:39 1960

27 Dead Rocks - Surf Man 9:26 2014

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