PRESS KIT "VIVA LA MUERTE"


WHAT IS "VIVA LA MUERTE"?

Viva la muerte is a litle anthology, a little work made of tales and characters that tell their own stories of life and in particular death.From their graves we listen to the histories of mariners drowned in barrels of rhum, sea dogs on greek courses, soldiers and revolutions, babies felt from the cradle to the grave, illness, suicide, ghosts and western cowboys murdered! You can ride from the wild west to the red square with a gipsy caravan listening to poor taste squeeze box melodies. This is more than a simple record, it's a collection of musical epitaphs from all ages and countries. Due to the fact that the Legendary Kid Combo tells different tales from different ages, so the music changes! You can listen to old country music mixed up with balkan rhythm, blues steel guitars that play baroque tunes, spanish guitars on greek sirtaki..banjos, snare drums, harpsichords, trumpets, horns, voices and sounds, old vessels and carriages!
Imagine a cemetery full of ghosts that tells their own death! This is VIVA LA MUERTE!

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

track by track:

MARY BLUNDER 1878 +1901
A violent Psycho country punk that tells about Mary Blunder killed by her loved brother, the wild roses growns on their graves
to cover up their
unforgivable sin...banjo with distortion and brass section reminds of ottomans melodies!

EDDIE MONTANA 1822 +1851
Slow down with this country based song with steelguitar and typical '70s rhythm!
for the Eddie's death, hanged from a tree

IVANOV SERGEJ 1899 +1917
Oci ciorni...
Balalaika, and choral russian music is the structure of this balkan oriented song that tells the epic story of Ivanov
It makes you feel the cold of a snowy trench with the revolution's echo on your back!

REVEREND THEODORE MILES 1871 +1938
Allelujah, Allelujah, God bless Theodore Miles, the unholy reverend of a blues church!
Please sing for Theodore, cry for Theodore,Pray for Theodore!

MARIANNE HEDERGAARD 1942 +1955
A shotgun! A Psycho ride with European taste of traditional popular music!
Marianne died for a lockjaw infection, she was a little girl, with a unlucky destiny..

FESTAN THE SEAWOLF 1854-1901 e SAILOR STUK THE GREEK 1899-1935
Thies are the songs dedicated to the sea life, Festan and Stuck, two great ballads that smell of fish and rhum!
From Greece to the Scandinavian sea with these two different jacks. Melancholic stories...or better..MELALCHOLIC stories!

THE GHOST OF TOM PITY 1930 +1959
Open the curtain, and start to stomp on this Italian oriented theme!
Imagine the greatest Alberto Sordi dancing with Rufus Thomas in this little masterpiece on a single note!
The ghost of Tom Pity that goes down in history trying to kill himself…”why i’m not dead..is the question!”

BILLY "BIG" JOEY 1806 +1824
Let’s jump back to the wild west, immagine a saloon full of booze and hookers!
Original cockabilly Kid Combo’s diamant point!
Billy Joey is going for the gold rush..will he come back? Who knows?

OLIVER and JENNY KNOX 1907 + 1966, 1916 +1945
Spaghetti western is the watchword! Here you can see Clint Eastwood smoking a cigar with Ennio Morricone
A great love story Oliver is still crying for his Jenny..

UNKNOWN
The Kid Combo’s torment as usual!
This is the end of the book, the Combo is playing this funeral march in a noisy pub, in every cemetery ther’s an unknown grave..
Vodka, rhum, whysky we drink to the health of the Unknown cheers, slance, prosit,skoll…SALUTE