Demis CousCous and Friends - The Monkey Western (UK 2006)

After you've had the chance to listen to the MONKEY EASTERN lately, you now get the opportunity to listen to its legendary prequel: THE MONKEY WESTERN – this time credited to DEMIS COUSCOUS AND FRIENDS. A mix of finger-pickin' and strummin' (more or less western style) guitar tunes and more conventional folk-rock songs with vocals, some of them quite funny.

Again the singing voice reminds me of a (humurous) NICK CAVE (read and download the earlier DEMIS COUSCOUS posts here)... Enjoy!

"Herein lies the legendary Monkey Western Soundtrack. Recorded in it's entirety over one weekend, this is a collection of songs and incidental music for an imagined movie, the plot of which was never really discussed. The majority of the music was improvised and recorded in one take. This album features some songs which later made their way onto The Mackerelheads debut, including Czech radio "hit" Trouble Comes My Way.

Players on this album are, Demis CousCous, Divad Nyarb, Tam Revorg and occasional vocals by RZ. Highlights include Matts Desert Search For Sacred Horse, which still makes me laugh three years later, and the hypnotic 30 More Days." (D.CC. - more info in the zip-file)

Demis CousCous

and Friends - The Monkey Western

(UK 2006)

(mp3-zip, 22 tracks, 64 min, 102,3 MB)

Get it here or here!

The Mackerel Heads - I Was A Teenage Mackerel Head (UK 2007)

Here is another one of DEMIS COUSCOUS' records for your enjoyment.

"A pseudo phoney folk band. Largely an Opportunity for us all to get very drunk on whiskey and do BOB DYLAN or CAPTAIN BEEFHEART impressions. It all started with a few Open mic nights as a three piece which proved popular enough for us to be continually offered gigs and increase in size to a seven piece.

THE MACKEREL HEADS album consists of home recordings made between 2006 and 2007 which were then revisited as a band once things started rolling. Largely the performances on the album are played by DEMIS COUSCOUS and DIVAD BRYAN..."

(Info by D. CC)

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THE MACKEREL HEADS - I Was A Teenage Mackerel Head (2007)

(mp3 zip, 14 tracks, artwork incl.)

Get it HERE! New link 2024.

Demis CousCous - The Freemealin' Demis CousCous (UK 2008)

Here is, far as I know, DEMIS COUSCOUS' latest album (from 2008). It is similar in style to "Dog Kill Bird" posted recently.

Enjoy!

Demis CousCous - The Freemealin' Demmis CousCous (2008)

(mp3 zip, 15 tracks, 85,5 MB, 47 min)

Get it HERE! New Link 05/2024.

Demis CousCous - Dog Kill Bird (UK 2007)

Not too long ago I posted some free-form-freak-out-psych-rock by GRASSMONKEY, a band that featured DEMIS COUSCOUS on bass. Here is a solo work by Demis. It's completely different in style, so for those of you who didn't like the wild improvisations of GRASSMONKEY (if there are some people at all...), you might nevertheless enjoy this recording here, that is very much in a folk or singer-songwriter style (though admittedly sometimes a little weird - like a cross between NICK CAVE (that is: if he had any humour) and Tom Redecker, the singer of the German psych folk band THE PERC MEETS THE HIDDEN GENTLEMAN and later THE ELECTRIC FAMILY (that probably nobody except me will know... - check it out if you are so lucky to find a copy of one of their rare records).

"This album was pieced together from an aborted project entitled "Remove The Cancer". Some tracks are unfinished works from that album, others were written and recorded after the "...cancer" album fell apart. Others are completed items originally intended for the aborted album...

The album was recorded in livingrooms and bedrooms across the south coast of England between June and September 2007 on a Roland VS2400CD digital recorder using a few battered old microphones. The drums were overdubbed last minute in an old disused TV studio in Winchester..." (DCC quote from email info)

Demis CousCous - Dog Kill Bird (UK 2007)

(mp3 zip, 11 tracks, 80,5 MB, 36 min, artwork incl.)

Get it here! New link 2024.

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