Album Notes

FROM:
Cool and Strange Music Magazine

*This Issue's Spotlight CD*
The Lounge-O-Leers • Experiment in Terror
LOL-03-CD

The sound contained within Experiment in Terror is the sound that has attached itself to our col-lective synapse over the last half of the 20th century. This disc is brilliantly synthesized (both literally and figuratively) by a couple of swingin' technonerds who go by the name of Ricky Ritzel and Aaron "Hot Rod" Morishita.
Recorded completely live at a studio in NYC, Experiment in Terror pushes songs that we all know and love/hate/love/hate through the Lounge-O-Leers' blender of love. What squeezes out the other side is ambient music that will pervade your soul, and maybe help you pervade the soul of the lady you're with.

When was the last time you've heard a decent cover of "Perry Mason Twist?" Eons. And "Xanadu," every- one's guilty pleasure, is brought out of suspended ani-mation (the Federal government had all copies of that ELO/Gene Kelly/Olivia Newton-John cinematic opus destroyed, a few copies survived, and were mercifully passed into the hand of the LOLs), and given the supreme treatment it always deserved.

And we've all come to realize that Jim Morrison was nothing but a glorified lounge lizard (king), so "Riders on the Storm" absolutely thrives in the Tom Collins-soaked context. My personal fave is "Munsters/Spooky Med-ley." My only sadness comes when I realize that Fred Gwynne is not around to enjoy the sparkling sound of the Lounge-O-Leers.

- Ed Kaz!