Peter Egri's One Man Band Boogie - Under The Memphis Moon
1 Boogie Woogie Mad Man (Peter Egri)
2 Shake Woman (Peter Egri)
3 Wiggle Baby (Peter Egri)
4 Run Chicken Run (I'm Comin') (Peter Egri)
5 Wanted Man (Peter Egri)
6 Baby That's What I Like (Peter Egri)
7 Wild And Animalistic (Peter Egri)
8 I Gotta Boogie (Peter Egri)
9 Devil Town (Peter Egri)
10 Lonely Moon (Peter Egri)
11 Don't Mess Around (Peter Egri)
Peter Egri’s One Man Boogie ’55 – Under The Memphis Moon (Rhythm Bomb Records)
Dirty, gritty, and raw are some of the words that can be applied to the sounds emanating from album, Under The Memphis Moon. A brand-new solo project from Peter Egri (Mystery Gang) where the emphasis is certainly on the “solo” because the Hungarian singer-songwriter has composed all of the eleven songs chalked up on Under The Memphis Moon, in addition to supplying the vocals, guitars, and foot drums. What transpires therefore, is an album full of energy and a sense of it having been simmering away for a period of time, along with plenty of creative ideas, because only now does that energy finally get its chance to break free. With inspirations pulled from the genres of rockabilly, neo-rockabilly, psychobilly, and pieces of garage punk, and a few nods to country music, Peter Egri merges the past with the present. First exposure is the frantic and addictive ‘Boogie Woogie Mad Man’; a song that persistently taps at your senses via its pounding rhythm of guitar and foot drum, and words that have no intention of giving up on this thing known as rockin' music. From this hypnotic and lively beginning, Under The Memphis Moon continues to hit the ball out of the park with further agitated and smouldering numbers including ‘Shake Woman’, ‘Wiggle Baby’, and ‘Run Chicken Run (I’m Comin’)’. The tempo and mood drop slightly for ‘Wanted Man’, which raises its country and rockabilly influences to the fore and ends up sounding like the perfect fit for a western film in the current times. ‘Baby That’s What I like’ turns the 50s rockabilly sound inside out and delightfully so, before the “wild” and “animalistic” feelings return via ‘Wild And Animalistic’, and straight driving rhythm of ‘I Gotta Boogie’. Clearly a man with much on his mind and a burning energy that simply had to be let loose because Peter Egri’s One Man Boogie ‘55 singlehandedly delivers on all fronts Under The Memphis Moon.
Nathan Olsen-Haines (Rhythm Bomb Records)
