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- The Devil's Toy
- Originally I recorded this short track for a promotional video for a new fun-sport motor vehicle. The music is inspired by Davie Allan & The Arrows who record great guitar Rock-Instrumentals, starting in the mid-sixties. They started with a skateboard movie called Skaterdater and went on to record for American International biker exploitation flicks like The Wild Angels. The band is still going strong out of Los Angeles, California. The title of my track here I borrowed from another skateboard film of the mid-sixties. The pictures to my music I found in an online archive of public domain videos. The sound is my Mosrite Combo guitar detuned a full step and played into a vintage italian fuzzbox and then into a 1964 Fender Bandmaster.
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- Come Fly with Me
- A track and video I did a long time ago. Its on my debut album The Tiki & The Guitar. I designed the typeface in Fontographer and animated the video in Flash.
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- Der Sommer ist da
- thanks to the following flickr members for allowing me to use their beautiful summer photos: gregor y Mr TGT mazdamiata miss mass Olivander PapaPaolo strict lobstar28 Omega Man
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- Fatu Hiva
- Today I’m aware that the tracks name giving island is actually spelled Fatuhiva, but anyway this (Fatu Hiva) is the spelling you can read at iTunes, Amazon or on the CD cover of the album. The island footage is of course Rapa Nui, or the european name Easter Island. Famous for its big rock statues called Moai in the native polynesian dialect. The footage is public domain and since it reminded me a lot of Thor Heyerdahl (author of Kon-Tiki) who wrote books about Fatuhiva as well as Rapa Nui. Fatuhiva is closer to the center of Polynesia, thus closer to what has become known as Tiki. However in recent years (and in Heyerdahls days) the Moais have become icons of Tiki Pop Culture. The Exotica style of my recording celebrates the mysterious, manifold and obscure cultural sources, seemingly embodied in the giant stone idols os Easter Island. I recorded the track originally for the forthcoming DVD of Tiki. The music was heavily inspired by the likes of Les Baxter composer of Quiet Village (made famous by Martin Denny) and soundtracks in the 1950s and 1960s
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- Besame Mucho
- This is my 1963 Framus archtop guitar, with Schaller pick-ups. The family in the picture is un-known. I found this photo on flickr.com. The owner Olivander let me use it for my video when I asked him. So I animated it with Imageready.
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