KID CONGO AND THE PINK MONKEY BIRDS - GORILLA ROSE (LP)

Kid Congo And The Pink Monkey Birds Gorilla Rose on LP

Gun Club co-founder, gunslinger for The Cramps and six-string stylist for Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, the legendary Kid Congo Powers named his new album Gorilla Rose after the artist/performer. As a teenage boy, Powers met Gorilla Rose in the emerging LA punk scene of the ’70s through seminal weirdo band The Screamers. While editing his fan club newsletters at a haunted Hollywood house, a teenage Powers was also exposed to the sounds of Neu, Nico, Billie Holiday and Goblin’s soundtrack to the film Susperia, and along with Gorilla Rose, these past influences found their way into the Kid’s new full-length.

To record the album, Kid Congo and The Pink Monkey Birds grabbed producer Jason Ward and hightailed it back to the magik gymnasium at The Harveyville Project, a high school in Kansas and also the scene of the crime of their much acclaimed 2009 release Dracula Boots. Kiki “El Coyote” Solis on bass and Ron “The Cap’n” Miller on drums, along with new Pink Monkey Bird Jesse “The Candyman” Roberts (The Ruby Doe) on guitar, keys and vocals, firms up Kid Congo’s squawking flock.

Brandishing thirteen all-original, glam-tastic compositions, Gorilla Rose blasts off with the ’60s Chicano rock influences of explosive dance anthem “Bo Bo Boogaloo.” That’s just the start of a wild ride through funky but chic decadence, slip sliding rockabilly, teenage punkdom, mystic krautrock, baby-making sleaze, the best bad peyote trip you ever took and even a velvety call from the beyond.

Finding inspiration in the past is what Kid Congo and The Pink Monkey Birds do best. On this 2011 sonic trip, the Kid brings his past into the present and names it after someone flamboyant and inspired: Gorilla Rose.

Kid Congo And The Pink Monkey Birds Gorilla Rose Track Listing:

1.  Bo Bo Boogaloo
2.  Goldin Browne
3.  Bunker Mentality
4.  At the Ruin of Others
5.  Bubble Trouble
6.  Catsuit Fruit
7.  Our Other World
8.  Hills of Pills
9.  Flypaper
10. Injun War Crimes
11. Lord Bloodbathington
12. Lullaby in Paradise
13. Gorilla Rose