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Music To Kill By Gulcher 405 CD £6.99 Afrika Korps were a great punk rock ‘n’ roll group birthed from a mess of snot, featuring “an elite army of volunteer musicians” drawn from key DIY groups like O. Rex, The Slickee Boys, The Gizmos, The Look and Teenage Boys. Music to Kill BY was recorded 1976-77 by core members guitarist/vocalist Solomon Gruberger, guitarist Ken Highland (on leave from the Marines at the time), guitarist Kim Kane, bassist Jay Gruberger and drummer Ken Kaiser with contributions from scenester flesh of the quality of our Philadelphia bud Howard Wuelfing (of The Look and former Forced Exposure scribe), Martha Hull and Marshall Keith of the Slickee Boys, Thomas Kane, Patricia Ragan, Robert Goldstein, Chris Thompson, Charles Eichert and Laurie and Karen Hoch aka The Kaiser’s Kittens. Inspired by frat rock, tough British Invasion sounds, dumb punk put-downs, The Ramones, KISS, Iggy and Alice Cooper, the Korps cut a great high-energy garage punk album with covers of tracks by groups like The Kinks and The Yardbirds, paeans to sweaty sex and picking up girls high on cheap beer and some fantastically primitive jams. As well as including the full album, Music To Kill by comes up trumps with a yard of out-takes and some choice 1977 live action. Wish I could’ve been there. Great liners from Mr Eddie Flowers again, as well as some choice pics. |
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Live At Cantone’s 1977 Gulcher 409 CD £6.99 Phenomenally good teenage punk ‘n’ roll action from this endearingly snotty super-group. Live At Cantone’s was recorded the day after Gizmo and Korps member Kenne Highland married Miss Lyn, editor-publisher of the notorious Boston Groupie News and functioned as a rockin’ reception. This is the full gig in sick, unedited form, recorded at a venue that saw an insane amount of hot rock action at the close of the 70s. The perfect companion to their studio set, Music To Kill By, this is bloody as all hell, with shredded Chuck Berry riffs and British Invasion-style hooks put to the service of some loudmouth teenage threat. Comes with liners and an absolutely beautiful cover. |
