A Sense of Doubt blog post #3170 - VAMPYROS LESBOS - SEXADELIC DANCE PARTY: Music Monday for 2310.23
23 and 23. Double 23s. Special day.
I have owned this album for a couple of decades since its re-release on CD. I do not own the vinyl LP.
You
can really see the Frank Zappa influences within this soundtrack. With its
psychedelic and prog tinges, it has to be one of my favorite soundtracks of all
time. It fits well that this is also one of my favorite films of all time.
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Vampiros
Lesbos is pretty much what you would expect from an album such as this:
Psychedelic tinged jazz rock instrumentals. Nothing cutting edge, but good
rhythms and wonderful early 70s analog tones. Schwab would go on to Embryo not
long after, giving him future street cred. A fun set of music, and a good way
to shock your neighbors next time you have them over for a glass of wine and
cheese (literally and figuratively I suppose).
I did see the movie once, didn't even get through it. Pretty dull stuff, though
I'm sure it was much more exciting in 1970.
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EXTREMELY consistent library/soundtrack stuff. If I did my
research right, these tracks were initially issued on the Psychedelic Dance Party and Sexedelic LPs, and apart from some of the
incidental tracks (i.e. a few People's Playground Versions and Psycho Countdown
Parts from those two albums), everything from them is included here. It's got a
little bit of everything: fuzz guitar, sitars, singalong choirs, echo effect
dickery, orchestral instrumentation, brass... you name it. And yet, it somehow
doesn't feel like a mishmash of unrelated tracks. Humbler and Schwab clearly
had a definite sound they were going for that they used for all three of the
Franco films this compilation covers.
Even if the plot of the 1971 film Vampyros Lesbos—one
of many less-than-coherent Euro-sexploitation horror jobs hammered out by
Italian director Jess Franco—might lose your attention around the forty-five
minute mark, its bold musical score keeps you awake. On record, it's a bawdy
psychedelic lounge jazz epic, with music from two other Franco films, Sie
totete in Ekstase and Der Teufel kam aus Akasava,
included. It sounds like wild sex on the comfiest, thickest shag carpet around.
Fuzz guitar effects, sitars, and moody organs hobnob merrily over danceable
beats and some piano and horn arrangements. A few wordless vocal parts
sometimes trill in the background like the bird squawks on an old Martin Denny
record. There are roughly three kinds of tracks here: bouncy bachelor pad
martini sippers, slow smokey bedroom numbers, and tracks that combine both of
those effects.
An all-time classic for club DJs, though it might be played-out in that scene
today. Still, it sounds great in the background of your own little house party.
Reissued in 2008 by Crippled Dick Hot Wax on CD and a white vinyl double LP,
limited to 1,000 copies.
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