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Imagine ... "Screaming Tv-Screens, blazing in heavenly Technicolor. Twanged-out Guitars under an enormous Sunset accompanied by Morriconesque Girl Choirs, as Bass and Drum Groove to the Beat of a Static Now. Disharmonic String-sections with Bows on Cymbals, jittery Harpsichords, clustered Timpani-motives and Tubular Bells eerily chime. Cobweb-like Circuit-bends and Micro-synths meshed in Tape-manipulations on dusty Retro-Drummachines, Handclaps and a worn Hammond-organ. The Surf never breaks on a Wave of White Noise!" A NOW-Soundtrack for THEN-Movies MANOJ RAMDAS, former guitarist of THE RAVEONETTES and his Associates, collectively named SPEkTR, formed in Denmark 2001, are emerging with new album entitled "B/w vs. Technicolour". Recorded in Copenhagen, Denmark and Los Angeles, as a tribute to the lost art of 60's-70's soundtrack composing and the ber-cool music from that aera. SPEkTR have written a pastiche-album. A "Retro-N-Soundtrack" if you like, containing original material, composed, performed and produced by the band. All inspired by the likes of Herrman, Mancini, Goldsmith, Morricone and performed with today's rock antics and attitude. While the band constellation holds: guitar, bass, drums, percussion, organ, synths and sampler, additional sonic texture for the album was enquired by the usage of string-sections, brass ensembles, classical percussionists, girl choirs and various electronic gadgets. Compositions like "Micro-Caine" and "The Bronson Beat" with their distinct 70's black-market Bollywood-rock feel, seem a perfect fit for a Steve McQueen or Bruce Lee movie never put into production! And while "Things that Go Bump in the Night"s manic pounding drummachinebeat and haunting harpsichord theme reminiscent, the stalking robot-gunslinger from "Westworld", "Drops O' Kurare" softly sedates and paralyzes with it's sweet and breezy guitarline, reverby bongos and polynesian-like chorus. The title track "B/w vs. Technicolour" is likely to raise all the demonic chills of a Leone/Morricone collaboration, with its stomping surf-march intro building to a climax that again descents into a romantic and lush end theme...... A so-called ride into the sunset scene. SPEkTR have toured Scandinavia and Europe extensively since 2001 and will be going on the road again early March for a few selected dates around Europe.