RELEASES

ROY & THE DEVIL’S MOTORCYCLE – Im Reich der Wilden Tiere (No Milk, No Sugar) (Voodoo Rhythm Records 2021)

Tracklist
1. Look down that lonesome road (John Jacobs Niles)
2. Learn to lose
3. Mo rice
4. Tears on my pillow (Little Anthony and the Imperials)
5. Walking talking people
6. Powwow highway 89
7. Ain’t got a worry (Janis Joplin)

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A new album from Roy & the Devil’s Motorcycle – it’s their first in six years. And what a title! “Im Reich der Wilden Tiere (No Milk, No Sugar)”. “In the Kingdom of Wild Animals” was a television programme for children, explains Markus Stähli, the youngest of the three brothers who make up the band alongside the drummer, Elias Raschle. “It was presented by some stiff colonial type gentleman. He was sitting in his office, talking about wild animals. Why is this a fitting title for the album? Because it’s zeitgeist.”

Eight years ago, Roy & the Devil’s Motorcycle supported post-psychedelic superstars Spiritualized on a European tour. Their guitarist Tony “Doggen” Foster was so impressed by their uncompromising dedication to the power of massed guitars and the mood of the moment that he invited them to his studio in Nottingham for some recording sessions. During the following few years the Roys returned to the “Mouse House” again and again. Always supportive and enthusiastic, Doggen never tried to interfere with their vision. “We played live with the same raw energy we used to play at our shows, guided by emotional chaos and excess.”

The seven songs were mixed by Markus Stähli at home in Basel’s Happy Home Studio. Hardly any overdubs, lots of feedback, and a very real pneumatic drill thrown in for good measure. “Pounding away right in front of the studio in Nottingham, it was part of the ambience. Gives you an idea of the sensibility at play, I guess.” Three guitars, one drum set, three voices. As it says on the album cover: “Not a comfortable sound, nothing landscapish, no distance to a wide stereo spectrum, no ready-made room you can go in. Confrontation – talking to you. No milk no sugar.”

Four songs were written by the band, including their gorgeous evergreen “Learn to Lose”. Driven by a hypnotic xylophone riff from the keyboard, the minimalist “Mo Rice” shows the Roys from a new side. A sign of things to come? Their cover of John Jacobs Niles’s “Look Down That Lonesome Road” sounds hardly any less spooky than the original but clearly tells the story in a language of their own. The same applies to covers of the Little Anthony hit “Tears on My Pillow” and Janis Joplin’s “Ain’t Got a Worry”. Give thanks to Roy & the Devil’s Motorcycle! Theirs is a daredevil ride into a land of animal power and beautiful mystery.

 

ROY & THE DEVIL’S MOTORCYCLE – GOOD MORNING BLUES (Repress, Voodoo Rhythm Records 2020)

Tracklist
1. Good Morning Blues
2. Lay In The Sun
3. Candy Train
4. Trying to get to you
5. Six Feet Off The Ground
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ROY & THE DEVIL’S MOTORCYCLE – TINO FROZEN ANGEL (Voodoo Rhythm Records 2014)

Soundtrack: Frozen Angel

Tracklist
1. frozen angel
2. you better run
3. tricolore
4. water air food and love
5. not enough madness
6. hill theme
7. leo elodie leoic & louie
8. tutilimundi
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ROY & THE DEVIL’S MOTORCYCLE – TELL IT TO THE PEOPLE (Voodoo Rhythm Records 2012)

Tell it to the people

Tracklist
1. six pink cadillac
2. i’m allright
3. casey jones
4. cristina
5. tears on my pillow
6. will the circle be unbroken
7. wather, air, food love
8. piggy bank
9. henry’s blues
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ROY & THE DEVIL’S MOTORCYCLE – FORGOTTEN MILLIONSELLERS (Voodoo Rhythm Records 1998)

Forgotten Million sellers

Tracklist
1. intro
2. train i ride
3. dullpain beat
4. boots on fire
5. motorway
6. mr.charlie
7. born bad
8. texas pastureground
9. blue angel
10. something’s wrong
11. toni’s trippin’
12. remember me
13. let the poor boy pray
14. true romance
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ROY & THE DEVIL’S MOTORCYCLE – BECAUSE OF WOMAN (Voodoo Rhythm Records 2006)

Because of women

Tracklist
1. Dark Sunday evening
2. Don’t leave me (Junior Kimbrough)
3. Winding up (Kora Fluker)
4. Dust ball flashback
5. I had a dream
6. Johnny be good (Chuck Berry)
7. It hurts me too (Elmore James)
8. illumated cowboy
9. When we where young
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I’ll Sing You A Song  7“ ( A Tree In A Field Records 2014)
A01 I’ll Sing You A Song
A02 Sweet Reputation
B01 Rock’n’Roll Soldier
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Getaway Blues / Today Tomorrow  7″ ( A Tree In A Field Records 2011)
A1 Getaway Blues 4:30
B1 Today Tomorrow / Getaway Blues 4:41
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WATER AIR FOOD LOVE

Water Air Food Love 7″ (Happy Home Records 2010)
A WATER AIR FOOD LOVE
B SOMEDAY BABY / YOU DON’T KNOW
10CHF (available only at shows)

blackswan at christmas

Black Swan At Christmas 10″ (Voodoo Rhythm Records 2004)
A  BLACK SWAN AT CHRISTMAS, SOFT BOILED, BYE-BYE BABY
B  R’N’R STREETWALKER, NOT ENOUGH MADNESS,  BLACK SWAN AT CHRISTMAS (REPRISE)
SOLD OUT

not enough madness

Not Enough Madness  7″ (Subway Star Records 1999)
A NOT ENOUGH MADNESS, THIS LOVE IS NOT TRUE
B TWENTY MILES AWAY, YOU SET MY HEART ON FIRE
SOLD OUT

good morning blues

Good Morning Blues  10″ (Voodoo Rhythm Records 1996)
A GOOD MORNING BLUES, LAY IN THE SUN
B CANDY TRAIN, TRYING TO GET TO YOU, INTRO, SIX FEET OFF THE GROUND
SOLD OUT

as bad for the kids as dope

As bad for the kids as dope 7″  (Record Junkie Records 1994)
A I MEET JEFF
B MR. SPONGEMAN
SOLD OUT

bright lights in a long summer dream

Bright lights in a long summer dream 7″ (Record Junkie Records 1993)
A BRIGHT LIGHTS BIG CITY
B LONG SUMMER DREAM
SOLD OUT

discography

2020 ”Good Morning Blues” LP/CD (Repress) Voodoo Rhythm Records
2014 “I’ll Sing You A Song ” 7“  A Tree in a Field Records
2014 “Tino – Frozen Angel” (OST) LP/CD INCL FILM DVD  Voodoo Rhythm Records
2012 “Tell it to the People” LP/CD  Voodoo Rhythm Records
2011 “Today and Tomorrow“ 7″  A Tree in a Field Records
2010 „Water Air Food Love“ 7″  Happy Home Records
2010 Sampler  CD/LP   Voodoo Rhythm Records
2009 Sampler Low-Fi Dogma / Sound Development
2006 “Because of women” LP/CD Voodoo Rhythm Records
2006 “Voodoo Rhythm Sampler / CD comp-Voodoo Rhythm Records
2006 “Punch me hard” comp LP/CD Burning Sound
2006 “Pottwal 2” comp CD
2004 “Black swan at Christmas” 10″ Voodoo Rhythm Records
1999 “Rantings of a free thinker” 12″ comp- If Society Records / Finnland
1999 “Not enough madness” 7″ Subway Star Records/Sweden
1999 “Monolith Mushroom Music” comp- LP Ur Kult Records Germany
1999 “Music for…… People” comp- Do the Dog Records /  France
1999 “Teddybear” CD comp- Subversiv Records / CH
1998 “Forgotten million sellers” LP/CD Voodoo Rhythm Records / CH
1996 “Good Morning Blues” 10″ Voodoo Rhythm Records / CH
1994 “As bad for the kids as dope” 7″ Record Junkie Records / CH
1993 “Bright lights in a long summer dream” 7″ Record Junkie Records / CH
1992 “Live is suicide in slow motion” demo tape (self released)
1991 ” Swiss Garage Punk” LP comp- Record Junkie Records / CH
1991 “LET DOWN DEMO” tape (self released)