Les Agamemnonz are one of the most unique and special bands in surf music, and if I were to choose one word to sum them up, it would be playful. If you see them live, you'll get it, dressed in classic-era tunics, barefoot, perhaps with a fun gimmick like a Trojan horse. They bounce around and look like they're having a ball. But they're also playful in a sense that they toy with the "rules" and expectations of this genre, perhaps a little bit more with each release, and the results are almost always excellent.
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What is Draculina?
That's been what I and I suspect many others have been asking about this project for a while now. Which is a different question than "Who is Draculina?", though that's a relevant one too. Polina Draculina is a bit of a mysterious character, a bassist from St. Petersburg, Russia, at one point a member of Messer Chups, who has a seductive look in her videos though from seeing her around at Surfguitar101 Festival, seems a bit shy. I ask "what", however, because Draculina as a band is an enigma.
When I first discovered exotica while digging in thrift store bins as a teenager, it kind of blew my mind. I'd never heard of this music, but it was so weird and surprisingly plentiful. Ever since then I was wondering when I was going to see some sort of revival. And sure, there's been some here and there since then, and maybe I just didn't know where to look, but it recently dawned on me that we might be in the midst of one.
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