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GBR 061LP
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Fifties textures, rockabilly echoes, sixties British essences, and strolls through the New York of the seventies in an album originally self-produced in 2021 in CD format that deserved to be released on glorious vinyl. Now remixed, remastered, and with two bonus tracks. As a natural follow up to the 2016 album All In, Lee Perk brings you back to his sonic coordinates in a more balanced and sophisticated way, if possible. With fifties textures creeping through tracks like "Bad Times" and "Faster than Ever" and a set of rockabilly echoes in "A New Blend", carrying the flame of classic names like the ones of Roy Orbison, Everly Brothers, or Buddy Holly. "Run Your Filth," a previously unreleased track, also follows that direction and could have been a great A-side. But Tumbleweed Revisited also pays a visit to the brilliant and poppy sixties, crystalline, in songs of an unpolluted pop like "Talk", "Moonhall Park", or "See Me In the Morning", and more lysergic, in "Not Yet Enough", which opens the LP in a luminous way. "Scare Me" is a track with deep enthusiasm and disposition to dance a sweaty night club and Perk becomes a chameleon-like chronicler reciting "Bird And Giraffe" with sober instrumentation. "Carrie Fisher" previously released as a demo and the bonus track "Great Again (Trump's Theme)", complete a remarkable album that closes with "Años y Años de Soledad" in which Lee Perk leaves English to sing in Spanish. Alfredo Niharra himself (aka Lee Perk) plays all the instruments on the album, with the sporadic collaboration of Alex Blasco on keys, Juan López on bass, Carlos Screamers on double bass, and Ricky Ibáñez on drums. Juan López has been in charge of the remastering and remixing. It is proved that the guy from Getxo (outskirts of Bilbao) is a skilled and restless guy who underpins his sound in those that shone at the beginning of the second half of the last century and that, somehow, have marked his growth as an aficionado and his course as a musician, although without disregarding trends closer in time. Proof of this is his career as a member of Tulsa, Quite Fantastic, The Dolly Beatles, Leslie, The Fakeband... Tumbleweed Revisited is an album that deserved to be released on glorious vinyl.
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