Le Grand Miercoles

Here comes again the original reggae outlaws, surf and western inna Jamaican style, 100% instrumental. Comes with full album CD version including ‘This Is Surf-Steady’ album as bonus track.

Dust raised by a scrawny nag ridden in a Texan twilight by a hollow-cheeked rider. Ectoplasm that in the next track transmutes into a Haitian zombie who cheerfully rocks its members with the offbeat of the drum and bass. Cinematic and atmospheric, that’s the way ‘Ghost Cowboys’ sounds, the second full-length LP by Le Grand Miércoles. Moving away from previous Jamaican attachments and deeper into the sonic experimentation already hinted at in ‘This is Surf-Steady’ (Golden Singles, 2011). Not in vain we face a combo that brings together the cream of musicians who have opted for the syncopated rhythms in the Peninsula; the precise, merciless and pinpoint drumming of six bullets shot from a Colt 45, by Sputnik, grafted in the nowadays so missed Malarians, and then in Los Calaveras, The Golden Singles or Dwomo. On guitar the growling and lashing Winchester of Dr.Jau (Dr.Jau & The Peanut Vendors, Ki Sap, The Shake It Up’s, Gaia Dub Sindicat, Mr.T-Bone & The Golden Singles, etc.) On bass, driving the tunes with steady hand, the cowboy who prevents (or allows…) the guitar from overflowing into a thundering stampede, Fabiani (Pataconas, Dwomo). And rounding off this Wild Bunch, Willy (The Offbeaters, Dirty Soul Riders, Teleplasticos, Huessos) with his Hammond organ beaming glitters which reverberate on the whole like the sun in Mackena’s gold.