Send a money order of $30 (per CD) to Psycho Zydeco 5/118 Frederick ST Ashfield 2131 Australia
Include information about what item you wish to purchase and the quantity. As well as your personal details.
Albums available are Swamp Box (1995) Sell Your Soul (1997) Zydeco Factory (2000)
Ring Tone
If you want your own Psycho Zydeco ring tone, you can now purchase one through the broad beach festival. The track is "Hold on" and you can purchase it through the following link!
1. Uncle Bud
2. Stay In Or Stay Out - Pass The Dutchie
3. Follow The Sun
4. Zydeco Nights
5. Cisko Kid
6. Franky
7. What's In That Bayou
8. Hot Rod
9 Surf Cowboy
10. Get On Board
11. Let The Good Times Roll
12. When I Woke Up This Morning
13. Oh Yea Yal
14. Stef's Boogie
15. Johnny Can't Dance
16. Pour Tout Quel Que'lin - Pretty Girl
Album Launch
The night went briliantly with Blicka opening up on acoustic with a few technical difficulties followed by The Brewster Brothers who were also launching their new album "Shadows Fall" (Ex angels members). Psycho Zydeco played two sets, the majority fro m the new album. The crowd loved it. The band would like to thank everyone who stayed to the very end, you guys made the night!
Check out the photos in the slide show, with a feature of Mr Shamut from Louisianna and his belly dancer.
Psycho Zydeco was formed In 1991 when accordionist Stefan Sernek and guitarist Gregg Hatton discovered the Louisiana based styles of cajun and zydeco music. They assembled custom made instruments necessary for the zydeco sound, such as washboards and various triangles, and combined them with the 'Squeezebox' and R+B style guitar. Later joined by saxophonist Chris Wilson and drummer Gene Gill, the band started exploring the many permutations of zydeco and cajun. The group began performing In the Sydney area and slowly started to form a reputation as purveyors of a new and exciting foreign sound.
The band released its debut CD, SwampBox, in 1995 and had by then began to make regular appearances at folk, jazz, and blues festivals throughout the eastern seaboard of Australia. Although Psycho Zydeco displayed a leaning towards the rhythm and blues style of Clifton Chenier, Buckwheat, and Rockin' Dopsie, the group has shown a desire to also perform the more folk and cajun styles complete with creole French lyrics and ringing giant triangle. Despite their fascination with these American styles, the band believe the Psycho Zydeco sound has an undeniably Australian quality that is their own.
In 1996 Psycho Zydeco received an Invitation to perform at the Edinburgh Jazz&Blues Festival, an extremely exciting prospect. After a great deal of organization and hard work a small tour of the UK was organized and embarked upon. A total of 17 shows were performed in 12 days in Edinburgh, London, and at the Brecon jazz Festival in Wales. The tour was proudly deemed by the band a financial and creative success.
Energized and inspired from the tour the band began rehearsals to write their second album. It was the group's desire to spend more time on this new project than was possible when recording Swamp Box. Recording began in late April 1997 and three studios and three months later the CD was complete. The intention of this project was to fully explore the possibilities of cajun and zydeco based styles. The resulting recording Sell Your Soul (To Zydeco) thus delves into cajun style folk ('Barragoot', Bogged in the Bayou', Boozoo's Yea Yea'), blues ('Sweet Little Angel, 'Evening Train') and high energy zydeco grooves ('Amazon Annie','Hot Tamale', 'Don't Dance'). The album was completed just In time for the band to debut on their 27 date tour of the UK and Europe which took place during August 1997. This tour was enormously successful taking In the Edinburgh Fringe, jazz&Blues Festivals as well as a performance for the Internationally syndicated BBC Radio program "The Usual Suspects". Festival performances In Belgium, Wales and Lancashire England comprised the remainder of the tour.
On returning to Australia the group then concentrated on the promotion of their new CD through media appearances and interstate touring. They were guests on Nine's 'Midday Show', as well as Triple J's 'World Music Show, while the Sell Your Soul Tour has taken in Brisbane, Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne. At the end of 2000 Psycho Zydeco proudly announced the release of their third full length CD, titled Zydeco Factory. The band was finally able to emerge from their factory studio where they had written, rehearsed and recorded the long awaited successor to the groups previous two albums.
Zydeco Factory explores a wide range of rhythms and grooves and is a potent brew of Australian style blues tinged zydeco. From cajun instrumentals to steaming country grunge and rollicking zydeco funk, this album is an eclectic, spicy gumbo of all original songs.
The Zydeco Factory Tour, supported by radio nationally on JJJ and the ABC, saw the band undertake an extensive tour of Australia. This included most major cities and many regional centres and featured concert performances sharing the bill with artists such as Paul Kelly and blues-meister Damon Davies. The band finished the 25 date tour with a rousing finale in front of thousands of fans onstage new years' eve at the Woodford Folk Festival bringing the year to a grand and well timed conclusion.
In the 13th June edition of The Drum Media
Psycho Zydeco has recently released one of the finest home grown roots music albums of the past decade, which is worthy of an ARIA nomination. Get On Board is a 16 track romp through the world of traditional and contemporary Zydeco, interpreted in Psycho's own unique style. Theres a solid collection of originals, some classic covers from artists such as Terrence Simien and Clifton Chenier and some real contemporary grooves along the lines of Chris Ardoin. It's highly recomended and worthy of an ARIA going in the roots category.
By Pedro Manoy
Purchase Psycho Zydeco's Current album "Get on Board" and their past albums through chaos music.
Hi there Psychos, went to check out your gig listing and there is nothing for this year. What is happening there? I have been too busy, hopefully I will get a chance to slow down soon. I haven't got a frottoire, but am learning guitar this year. Not bad for and old bird :)
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