3/9/2012 New Dan Melchior, Italian Synth and Playing Catch-Up With Myself!

It's been awhile since my last post, so keep checking back during the week as I continue to update the blog with a whole month's worth of tunes to share!

Gonna kick-off this backlog with material from the most recent show. Soon-to-be new KDVS DJ Fred-Eric joined me in Studio B this past Friday to learn a few tricks and pick up some of my bad habits. Stream this venture into new recordings and late 70s punk HERE! -- Playlistings HERE!

First up is English-bred Dan Melchior's "Dogbite Meltdown #1" from the Red Nylon Valance 7" (SDZ Records.) The A-side and title track is an equally brilliant brand of hauntingly sodden guitar droning with convoluted lyrics that I'll save for next week.

Up next it's the Italian cold-pop trio Der Noir with "Stranger's Eye." Birthed in the summer of 2011, the group's debut album A Dead Summer was released on RBL/Bloodrock Records in late January 2012. (A self-released, self titled EP was also issued last year.) With the exception of "Lontano Dalle Rive" and "Cosa Vedo," all songs are sung with a forlorning Italian accent in English by vocalist Manuele Frau.

Now to close-out with another track de Italia: "Train Of Love" by Sandy & Cromo, off of the uber-rare Simple Fantasy Italo-disco album they self-released in '84. This particular cut could even top-off a punk set since it has a bit 'o power pop leanings. If not for the telltale hi-hat disco beat and synths it coulda been a rock & roll song!