The Amsterdam based Bingo Trappers are the moniker of songwriter and singer Waldemar Noë and multi-instrumentalist Wim Elzinga, who also creates the arrangements and recordings of their prolific oeuvre, which began in 1995 with the cassette More/Soul on the legendary Shrimper label. They’ve been active ever since, Rolling Stone mentions them as a special pick with their cd-only release Juanita Ave. in 2001, and in the last decade they’re on a steady vinyl-streak with the albums Sister Planet (’13), Elizabethan (‘18) and ‘Giddy Wishes (’20) (for the complete discography, see their Bandcamp-page). Their music is tasty enough to dub it a delicious stew of sixties-twangs, bluesy strums, luring slide-guitars or pedal-steels, warm vocals and tickling choirs. Please enjoy.
LP $27.00
07/26/2024
*** Extremely limited vinyl-only new album from our Dutch classic rock heroes, the Bingo Trappers. The duo of Waldemar Noë and Wim Elzinga have been otherwise known as the Bingo Trappers since their debut in 1995 and have released music on every format known to indie rock DYI culture in the intervening years. Only three of their albums have made it to vinyl, unfortunately, so this is cause for celebration. Elizabethan is their eleventh full-length (& their first album in six years) and it's yet another countrified pop masterpiece. There will only be 100 copies to circulate in the United States. Comes in screen-printed jackets with download code in a limited run of 275. From the band: "Lately, a friend asked me: tell me, what are Elizabethan eyes? And I answered: oh, I don’t know. Really? Yeah, really. Oh, okay. But behind every truth there lies a lie – some big, some small, but they’re always there. Or a story. On our new album Elizabethan there’s a song called ‘Don’t steal my line’, and in that song there’s the line ‘when I see your Elizabethan eyes’. What I had in mind while writing that song was the movie Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. The mere power of speech – afighting couple, killing each other with words (I grew up with afighting couple, they happened to be my parents). Yes, Elizabethaneyes could also involve the infinite gaze of William Shakespeare…
LP $16.00
01/25/2019
60's era psych and British wave-isms from this Dutch group etched across two sides of a warm vinyl fuzzy.
LP $8.25
01/08/2001