"Thanks for sending in your info and tape.I have absolutely no idea what this is meant to be, or what you expect me to do with it....completely unsuitable in terms of what I'm looking for.I work on songs, not Chinese surf-punk instrumentals (I didn't know there was such a thing, before your CD arrived)."
Chartsong
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Hi, I really flipped when Chuck asked me to write something for the back cover of his new album. Being the International President of the Chucknee fan club is something like heading up the United Nations. I answer letters from all over the world asking about Chuck and some of them are written in French, German and even English!
Nothing quite suits the new developments in stereophonic sound so well as do the rhythms and exciting gyrations of an Oriental Surf Lounge combo. The bongo, in a sense, is the star of this album. We have asked the bongo player (often Chuck himself) to utter freely an unwritten passage now and then in an attempt to capture the spontaneous excitement of an improvisation. Sometimes the results were surprising; who, for instance, would have imagined a conga for HK Western ? Yet, how exciting it becomes played this way! But,then, this is Chuck: excitement.
Sincerely Yours,
"SUSHIE" TSUBUSHI SHIMADA
"One gets the feeling there's a reason these acts haven't been signed..."
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