The Bucannan - Tsunami
THE BUCANNAN DROP DAZZLING ‘TSUNAMI’ EP
Meet The Bucannan, the deluxe instrumental surf rock outfit from the Canary Islands, who about two weeks ago dropped their new EP, Tsunami.
The Bucannan
Made up of Mr. Rosa (drums), Mr. Verde (bass), and Mr. Rojo (guitar), the band has toured extensively throughout Canarian venues and festivals, including being awarded the top prize,"Revelation Group of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria," at La Caja Sonora. They’ve shared the stage with Sex Museum, Al Dual, and Britain’s The Jets, along with many others.
Influences include Dick Dale, Link Wray, The Cramps, The Trashmen, The Gories, The Straitjackets, and Lost Acapulco. The Bucannan’s sound exudes swashbuckling layers of sound, traveling on tantalizing rhythms made up of wicked percussion and a fat, driving bassline.
The Bucannan describes their sound as: “An ultra-vitamin cocktail with three essential ingredients: a sharp guitar infused with abundant reverb, wild drums with cave beats, and a hypnotic bass.”
“El Santo” features chopping drums on the intro and segues to oozing colors of surf rock with delicious runs on the guitar filling the tune with descending modality.
Explaining the EP, the band shares, “The first cut of the album, ‘Tsunami,’ is a reverb whirlwind with an indomitable drum that will invite you to ride a great infernal wave, followed by ‘El Santo,’ the second cut that hits hard and without compassion, a tribute to the ‘masked man de plata,’ the emblematic Mexican wrestler. Side B of the album will transport you to a movie with a psychobilly-flavored horror-surf setting. ‘Zombie Surfers’ and ‘Tranvía asesino’ finish the album making their intentions very clear, it is not a purist instro-surf band and its main objective is to turn each concert into a wild beach party, cowabunga!”
Consisting of four tracks, the EP commences with the title track, opening on low-slung gleaming guitars, soft and latent with energy, and then takes off on a galloping rhythm of rolling drums and pummeling bassline, as the jangly bumblebee guitar lays down slick luminous licks.
“El Santo” features chopping drums on the intro and segues to oozing colors of surf rock with delicious runs on the guitar filling the tune with descending modality. “Zombie Surfers” rides iridescent tones atop a galvanizing rhythm, infusing the tune with Italian Spaghetti Western savors and beguiling surf-pop textures straight out of 1964’s Wild the Wild Surf.
“Tranvía asesino” glides on tighter, more controlled coloration, glistening washes of dazzling notes, and yummy drum breaks.
If surf rock is your thing, and you yearn for the bygone days of The Ventures and Dick Dale, then Tsunami is just what the doctor ordered. The Bucannan has it going on!
