I am looking for recommendations for band that are heavily inspired by SW music.
I have heard that surf music draws a considerable amount of inspiration from SW scores, but any recommendations on any surf bands of this kind…
Even single tracks by any artists that sound SWish will do. One good example would be the opening of Short Change Hero by The Heavy.
Thanks
Funny, I was just looking this up the other day. I’ll see if I can find some links, but I know I came across a Reggae album inspired by SW’s, called The Big Gundown. Like the SW of the same name.
I’m not sure “inspired” is the right word for this album, but there’s a one-off record by The Hellbenders called Today We Kill… Tomorrow We Diehttps://itunes.apple.com/us/album/today-we-kill…-tomorrow/id151643561 that puts a contemporary spin on some classic Italo-western tunes, including the Sabata theme.
I know there is a band out there called Django Django, but I don’t think their music is particularly Spaghettish.
The Reverb Syndicate’s Mondo Cacti is kind of spaghetti. Surf-ish style too, so you might like it. I do.
I guess Robert Rodriguez’s band Chingon does count as well.
There’s a compilation called “Cani Arrabbiati”, where there are many great new bands that cover spaghetti western themes, and other Italian film scores from horror, giallo and euro crime movies. I think it’s on Spotify. There’s a pretty good “Great Silence” cover there by Anima Morte. But I don’t know of any surf bands or such, that make their on music in the spaghetti western style.
There are always examples of known artists that sample spaghetti western scores. Prodigy made a song where they sample a few seconds of Morricone’s score for “The Big Gundown”. The song was simply called “The Big Gun Down”: - YouTube
Gnarls Barkley also made a hit called “Crazy”, that sample the score for “Viva Django”. I just discovered this recently. But seems like it’s a really big hit. It has almost 7 million views on YouTube! Gnarls Barkley - Crazy - YouTube
I have record called For a Few Guitars More: A Tribute to Morricone’s Spaghetti Western Themes.
Very nice guitar-oriented compilation of modern (mostly) surf bands covering Morricone plus one original tune called “The Loud, the Loose, and the Savage” (that states “composed by Davie Allan, inspired by Ennio Morricone”). On this link you can find extensive info (looks like the writer knows his spaghetti) together with samples of each track:
[url]http://www.pollodelmar.com/mart/morricone/[/url]
As most inspired and fresh sounding I recommend following tracks:
This is not exactly what you’re asking, but when I record my album where I do spaghetti-western tinged covers of non-spaghetti songs, these will be among them (so dibs):
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The Decemberists - Eli, The Barrow Boy
Jonathan Richman - Ahora es mejor
Mr. Loco - Religious Man
Johnny Cash - [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3rqS98seNA]Thunderball[url]Neutral Milk Hotel - The Fool - YouTube
Here:
Knights Of Cydonia - Muse.
See the video that goes with it.
Danger Mouse (who worked with Gnarls Barkley to create “Crazy” the remix of Gian Piero Reverbi’s “Nel Cimitero Di Tuscon”) partnered up with composer Danielle Luppi to create a heavily influenced Spaghetti Western / Indie-rock album titled “Rome”. The album features instruments made in the 1960’s, as well as being recorded in Forum Studios where a huge number of Spaghetti Western soundtracks were recorded. It also includes a re-uniting of the I Cantori Moderni! Which are featured very prominently in the album (especially Edda, who still sounds amazing). The album is extremely well produced and very reminiscent of the music it is inspired by. There’s a great mixture of instrumentals (like the song below) and vocal tracks. You guy’s should check it out!
Might I also suggest this strange album?
Remember starting a thread on this particular album when it released. I liked it then and still do now. Here’s the thread by the way.
Oh neat! I didn’t know they used original musicians as well.
Surprised they haven’t been mentioned here yet, but Spindrift is amazing. Psychedelic spaghetti western rock. They do a lot of scores and even made a really cool experimental spaghetti western movie called The Legend of God’s Gun, based on the preceding album of the same name. Fav tracks: Speak to the Wind, The Matador and the Fuzz, Titoli, and The Legend of God’s Gun.
Hi Nicholas! Welcome to the SWDB, amigo! We’ve certainly duscussed Spindrift on the forum before, though clearly not in this thread where, as you say, it’s a surprise that they’re not mentioned yet. Spindrift and I had been following one another on Twitter for some time when one of our other members, the currently missing in action @Reverend_Danite mentioned that he’d picked up this super-bizarre microbudget DVD movie called The Legend of God’s Gun in a charity shop. When I mentioned that I’d heard of them and liked their music he sent me the movie straightaway. I think it’s a cracking picture. I mean it’s awful, but in a good way. A bunch of mates larking about pretending they’re in a spag. And why not? It’s really something we SWDBers should all have done by now. 
Thanks! I actually discovered them through the movie. Movie Madness here in Portland has a great spaghetti western section and I rented it there and loved the music as well as the cult vibe of the movie. If I had gotten into SW before I went to film school rather than after I definitely would have made one by now. A real missed opportunity! Maybe in the future! Pretty excited, Spindrift is actually playing this Saturday here in town, so I’ll finally get to see a live show. 
Also check out Federale! Totally forgot about them until I just saw they’re opening for Spindrift this weekend, but my friend from film school used to be their drummer. Pretty similar vibe but maybe a bit more true to the original scores.
The Friends of Dean Martinez is a western/surf band with some great releases. One of the members, Woody Jackson, worked on the music for the Red Dead series.