Cargo Records

Angelo Spencer Et Les Hauts Sommets

Angelo Spencer's New release on cassette

The influence of Ennio Morricone has been evident in Spencer’s previous recordings with L’Orchidee d’Hawai, but never so much as his debut instrumental album Angelo Spencer et Les Hauts Sommets. Blanketed in the unconscious, the album invokes the archetypal images of a spaghetti western. Similar to works by such instrumental groups as The Shadows and The Ventures, Angelo Spencer et Les Hauts Sommets illustrates the potential of the guitar; how it can be played and bent to influence accompanying instruments. Spencer is self taught, but aside from his one-man band performances, he has never played guitar in a band before. On this album his guitar creates the wavering tempo for accompanying echoplex, bass clarinet, keys, bells, bass drum, handclaps, shenhai and shakers.

Les Hauts Sommets is an homage to that special moment when someone hears a soundtrack that is so wild and dissimilar to what’s been heard before that it helps them create their own story and hero from the music.

“Angelo Spencer knows how to play a mean guitar.” – The Stranger.