Tonight I have to introduce to those who haven’t had the pleasure of hearing yet an amazing group of Londoners called The Urban Voodoo Machine. They call their type of music bourbon soaked gypsy blues bob and stroll. Unfortunately this group hasn’t made its way overseas to the states quite yet but believe me when they do you will know. They are however blowing up the European market with great live music and a huge stage of between 7 and 12 musicians playing every instrument between guitars, drums, fiddle, trumpet, banjo, washboard, upright bass, gong, mandolin, accordion, harmonicas, saxophone, tuba, sousaphone and even empty bottles & tie racks. I like to call them rockabilly horror punk myself but you can decide for yourself what (if any) genre you can classify them under.
Orphans Lament’s video is just outstanding. From the production to the lyrics to the transitions of characters in the story is phenomenal. The song has a pirate feel to it; it kind of sounds like a horror sea shanty which goes very well with the group.
The song is a tale of Snake Eyed Jack, the bastard child of a sailor and a whore. The life he lives is mean and cruel often being told that he’s the devils child. The father leaves him at an orphanage to rot. The orphanage could not hold him so he runs away with the circus at 13 becoming one of the scariest clowns that you’d ever seen.
The video defiantly has a creepy feel to it. Having the lead singer Paul-Ronney Angel change in the video from himself to a pirate to a whore to a blood covered just born baby and other numerous characters. It worked out really well and told this sad horrific story beautifully. Hope you all enjoy it as much as I do again and again.
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