The Men From Nowhere (NL)

Dutch instrumental band led by Jelle van Atten, guitarist of the Ragtime Wranglers, who records under the name Joe Sixpack. He wrote and recorded the material between 2022 and 2024 with changing line-ups drawn from Dutch players such as Benjamin Herman on tenor saxophone, Arjan Spies of The Kik on drums and Donn La Fontaine of T-99 on double bass, and twelve of those tracks became the self-titled album. The music mixes surf, exotica, western, country and soul; every track is a Van Atten original except Man from Nowhere, written by Clive Westlake for Jet Harris.