SPINDRIFT: The Legend of God's Gun - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Spindrift

The Legend of God's Gun - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

© 2006 THEWEST (632127073720)

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This album is a psychedelic spaghetti western soundtrack.

tracks

1 In the Beginning...
2 Titoli
3 The Legend of God's Gun
4 Conversation with a Gun
5 Preacher's Theme
6 The New West (Instrumental)
7 Speak to the Wind
8 Organ Fugue in Dm Op. 42
9 Burn the Church
10 Greenhorn's Introduction
11 Girlz, Booze, and Gunz
12 Blessing the Bullets
13 The Scorpion's Venom
14 Indian Run

notes

Disheveled and anonymous, a shadow of a man makes his way through the mosaic of landscapes, heading West-always West-across the land. Weary and gritty from his journey, which is a pilgrimage of sorts, he rides alone away from his past, into a vague and distant future. Guitar in one hand, six-shooter in the other, he is the cosmic cowboy-the ghost rider on his dogged and hunted trek, seeking freedom from the bonds of the world-a rock’n'roll Western archetype founded in the psychedelia of the ’60s, and most recently resurrected from the dead with a vengeance by a posse of local musicians and filmmakers.

Kirpatrick Thomas, the founding member of Spindrift, a self-dubbed “psychedelic Spaghetti Western” band, made just such a journey-in true cosmic cowboy fashion-from Delaware to Southern California in late 2001. He was already heading up the experimental post-punk incarnation of a band called Spindrift when he took off. His fuel: fragrant dreams of the Western mystique rooted in the stylized ’60s cowboy movies of Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone …

Like any self-respecting musician on the road, Thomas stopped by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, on his way. It was on this fateful day, in front of the John Lennon exhibit, that he literally ran into the Brian Jonestown Massacre guitarist Frankie Emerson pushing singer/guitarist Anton Newcombe around in a wheelchair. The latter, whose rowdy antics were made public in the 2004 rockumenary Dig, had broken his leg in a fight during a riot at a gig the previous night.

Thomas-who sings, composes, plays guitar and keyboards-got to know the BJM guys very well. He credits them as a source of inspiration, collaboration and assistance in Spindrift’s California reinvention and activation as a spaghetti Western band. He later ended up playing guitar on tour with the band. That
was when the Western bug first bit him hard. Thomas fondly recalls listening and jamming to the music of Ennio Morricone-the prolific composer who pioneered
the haunting surf-guitar soundtracks on Leone’s ‘Spaghetti Westerns’-while driving cross country in the tour RV through the deserts.


From the Los Angeles
Alternative article
“Guns, Spurs, And Shrooms”
by Shana Ting Lipton

Spindrift's current line-up features past and present members of Brian Jonestown Massacre and other L.A. psychedelic veterans. The band has just released the soundtrack to their revisionist western film "The Legend of God's Gun." The full length feature, which stars the band themselves, is now being shown at Spindrift's live shows and at independent film festivals. In addition to the soundtrack, Spindrift has also re-released the full length LP recorded in 2002 entitled "Songs From the Ancient Age." Both are now available on CD. Spindrift's latest project, the forthcoming album tentatively titled "The West" is set for release early in the new year.

Visit Spindrift at:

http://www.myspace.com/thewest
http://www.spindriftwest.com

reviews

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  • Happy Cliftonite
    author: Jason Gilbert

    Fantastic soundtrack to what I am sure is a strange and wonderful movie. Doesn't quite work as a whole album, but makes a mighty fine radio play when sitting in traffic. "Indian Run" was a bit of a disappointment. I saw them play it live and the whole bar was ready to go out and burn a wagon train. What's on the CD doesn't convey half the energy. If you get a chance to see a show, go. P.S. CD baby did great on the service. The shipment notification email was a real hoot. Order something to see it yourself.

  • Moments of greatness!
    author: Chris Dunn

    Great service from CD baby arrived really quick. Love the album, one or two tracks passed me by but the rest is top drawer, in particular The Scorpion's Venom - what a rush !

  • Psycho cowboy fun
    author: Mark Lascelles

    Service from CD Baby was superb. It took me awhile to get into this album but I love it now. Highly recommended.

  • surf rock meets enio morricone
    author: Christina

    well done.

  • Brilliant
    author: Elliot Whiting

    My cd turned up perfect, and was a really quick delivery!Thank you! This cd/band is/are amazing..truely! Check out the tunes if you like what you hear, you will not be dissapointed in buying the cd! xo

  • Review
    author: Barbarella.bomb

    Music you can drink wine, close your eyes and sway to. Must wear cowboy boots while doing so. The band is excellent live too.

  • Buy this CD now!
    author: Tony Giovannini

    Like a cross between late 1960's west coast psychedelia and some long lost Ennio Morricone soundtrack, this CD will seriously make you want to eat mushrooms, jump on a horse, and go on a mission to hunt down and kill Banditos!

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