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Ms. Que Banh

From last Summer. At the BC Government House Music on the Lawns outdoor concert series.

With #Celtic #Scottish #musicians #friends in our local #Cookeilidh ( Cook - Kay - Lee ) band.

Cookeilidh has been delighting audiences for over 15 years with their high energy traditional, and modernized Celtic tunes. Comprised of 12-string guitar, electric bass, Irish flute, fiddle, bodhran, and vocals, they weave their own special blend of Trad with Attitude, Celtic Craic, and Pot O' Gold Folk!

Mixing the tunes of #Ireland and #Scotland, with a heaping spoonful of #Maritime flavour, and a dash of #Folk is their recipe for a modern day kitchen party!

Members and Instruments:

Dave Cook: Acoustic 12 String Guitar & Vocals
Woody Wilson: Irish Wooden Flute, Bodhran, & Bones
Tom Pogson: Electric Bass, Acoustic Bass & Vocals
Kim Cook: Fiddle, Percussion

Two-panel photograph depicting a group of five people posing at an outdoor event. In both panels, four members of the group stand close together, while a fifth stands slightly to the side. Most are smiling. The group is gathered on a grassy field, and a crowd sits in folding chairs behind them. The person to the left has a long, pointed beard, and the person to the right is wearing a 'Celtic Nation Ireland' t-shirt.
#Bands#MusicianFriends#FolkRock
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"A Horse with No Name" is a song by American #folkRock trio America. Written by #DeweyBunnell, it was released on the #WarnerBros label in late 1971 in Europe and early 1972 in the United States. The song was met with commercial success and topped charts in Canada, Finland, and on the US #Billboard Hot 100. It reached number 3 in the #UKSinglesChart. It was #certified #gold by the #RecordingIndustryAssociationOfAmerica (#RIAA) on March 24, 1972.
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YouTubeAmerica - A Horse With No Name (1972)By Warmer Music Videos
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"I Am a Rock" is a song written by Paul Simon. It was first performed by Simon as the opening track on his album #ThePaulSimonSongbook which he originally recorded and released in August 1965, only in the #UnitedKingdom. Paul Simon and #ArtGarfunkel, as the American #folkRock duo #SimonAndGarfunkel, re-recorded it on December 14, 1965, and included as the final track on their album #SoundsOfSilence, which they released on January 17, 1966.
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YouTubeSimon & Garfunkel - I Am A Rock (Lyrics)By Young Pilgrim Music
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1001 Other Albums

Wagakki Band (和楽器バンド) – Yasouemaki (八奏絵巻) (2015, Japan)

Our next spotlight is on number 1011 on The List, submitted by ChrisJagged.

Founded by singer, composer, lyricist, Shigin master, Kenshibu dancer, and classical pianist Suzuhana Yuko, Wagakki Band (和楽器バンド) is named after the traditional Japanese instruments that are prominent in their music, wagakki. Originating out of Suzuhana’s acoustic folk trio Hanafugetsu (which is still active), the band essentially merged with folk punk/visual kei band Crow×Class to result in a 8-member group with a sound that lands somewhere in-between the folk rock and folk metal spheres. Wagakki Band first gained popularity via their adaptations of Vocaloid songs, with their first LP, Vocalo Zanmai (ボカロ三昧) (2014), consisting solely of Vocaloid covers. The album we look at here is their second studio album and first to contain original material. It incorporates methods of Shigin, a traditional poetry form performed/recited in a particular manner, as would their following albums.

Following the release of Yasouemaki, Wagakki Band’s popularity would continue to grow both at home and internationally, and the band would go on to release five more LPs, with Tokyo Singing (2020) featuring a collaboration with Amy Lee of Evanescence. As of the end of 2024, the band has gone on indefinite hiatus.

Even if you, like me, don’t know much about J-rock/J-pop, if you have an interest in folk rock/metal (and love/miss[1] key changes!), this is a really fun band to check out.

Happy listening!

  1. Here’s a fun Tedium article that was referenced in a toot I saw recently, exploring the demise of the key change in pop music over the last 60 years: “The Death of the Key Change” by Chris Dalla Riva (Nov 9, 2022). The article looks specifically at pop music that hit the Billboard Hot 100 charts so I can’t help but wonder now if the key change is still alive and well in J-pop. Anyone know? ↩︎
The cover art is a photo of the 8 band members randomly lying on the floor together in various poses, sort of layered over each other, all looking up at the camera. Most of them are wearing similar dark blue kimonos with bright purple details, a couple are holding what seems to be the hilt of a sword-type weapon, one is holding a gold fan. Large flower petals (rose?) are laying all over them and the floor around them. The album name is written near the bottom center in Japanese characters inside a line-drawing of a scroll, with "yasouemaki" written in small letters underneath. The band name is written in Japanese characters at the bottom center.
#CrowxClass#folkMetal#folkRock
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"I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better" is a song by the Los Angeles #folkRock band the Byrds, first released in June 1965 on the #Bside of the band's second single, "#AllIReallyWantToDo". Despite initially being released as a B-side, the song managed to chart in its own right in the U.S., just outside the Billboard Hot 100. It was also included on the Byrds' debut album, #MrTambourineMan and #TheByrdsGreatestHits. The song was written by band member #GeneClark.
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YouTubeNEW * I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better - The Byrds {Stereo} 1965By Smurfstools Oldies Music Time Machine
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"The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" is a song by #folkRock duo #SimonAndGarfunkel, written by #PaulSimon and originally released on their 1966 album #ParsleySageRosemaryAndThyme. #CashBox called it a "sparkling, spirited lid". The song is named for the #QueensboroBridge which spans the #EastRiver between the #NewYorkCity boroughs of #Manhattan and Queens.
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YouTubeSimon & Garfunkel - Feelin' Groovy (from The Concert in Central Park)By SimonGarfunkelVEVO
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1001 Other Albums

Sumé – Sumut (1973, Greenland)

Our next spotlight is on number 383 on The List, submitted by myself (buffyleigh).

As with our last spotlight, I came across this one while specifically searching for cool albums to include in The List. A year later, it remains one of my favourite finds for both the project and, well, ever.

Sumé was the first Greenlandic rock band in Greenland, making Sumut, their debut, to be the first rock album released in the Greenlandic language, i.e., their own language rather than the language of the Danish colonizers. Even without looking into what the lyrics mean, that language choice plus the intense artwork – a reproduction of a 19th century woodcutting by Aron of Kangeq that depicts an Inuit person standing over a Norseman they had just killed – clues the listener into the fact that this album was making a political statement.

In fact the album – released just 6 years before a referendum that would gain Greenland home rule and therefore greater autonomy from Denmark (who had ruled the island since 1814) – would become a key part in Greenland’s fight for independence from Danish rule. The lyrics were revolutionary, presenting the political concerns of the Greenlandic people as well as simply using their own voice and not the skewed (i.e., racist) voice of white colonizers to depict the day-to-day lives of Inuit people. Check out some snippets below:[1]

Track 1 – “Pivfît Nutât” (“New Times”)

I wake up – I’ve been sleeping for a long time
They tell me two and half days have gone by for two and half centuries
I realise that they’re still here
They are here to get rich and to oppress us
Greenland, “The Lands of the People”
You can’t keep sheltering your children from harm
New times have begun
The old days we have left behind

Track 4 – “Tamorassâriat” (“The First Bite of the Seal”)

My father is a great hunter
He arrives with a big catch
Those who want the first bite of the seal rush down to the beach
To get a good treat
The first bite of the seal

Track 7 – “Erĸasûteĸarneĸ” (“Worry”)

Always a colony
Always oppressed
Leadership missing
Makes you blind
Never turn your back and be silent

Track 10 – “Ukiaĸ” (“Spring”)

The Earth, because it’s always spinning
The great day darkens
Nature is transforming
My love is putting on her warm coat
…
The flower is already getting brown
And I learn that’s the way it is
Like my friend
Without hiding, it becomes the soil
…
That poor kayak, it loses its skin
Deteriorated by time
Naked, it becomes a skeleton
Its time has come

Track 11 – “Nalunaerasuartaut Toĸuvoĸ” (“The Telegraph is Dead”)

The telegraph is dead
Connection failed
What is happening in the world?
Is there peace out there?

Apparently 20%(!) of Greenland’s entire population bought Sumut. And it’s not that surprising as, apart from the lyrics that inspired the Greenlandic people to take political action, the album sounds damn good. Sumé’s style, fusing psychedelic/prog rock with some traditional Inuit sounds (particularly from drum dances), would have a great impact on future Greenlandic rock, which remains a huge genre in the country.

The band would release two more albums soon after Sumut (Inuit Nunaat in 1974 and a s/t in 1976), and then reunited in 1994 for one last album, Persersume. Twenty years later, following the first reissue of Sumut, Sumé – Mumisitsinerup Nipaa (“Sumé – The Sound of a Revolution“) was released, a 2014 Greenlandic documentary from director Inuk Silis Høegh that celebrates the band, the album, and their impact on Greenlandic history.

Methinks, given *all of this*, it’s a good time to give this album a spin.

  1. English translations aren’t in the liner notes, so these are from Genius. Hopefully they’re correct. ↩︎
The cover art is a monochromatic reproduction of a 19th century woodcutting by Aron of Kangeq that depicts an Inuit hunter standing over a Norseman they had just killed, bow in one hand and the Norseman's torn off arm in the other. They appear to be in front of water, with a hill or mountain in the background. The band's name is in black font, with the record label name (Demos) plus catalog number (13) below it. The album name is not on the cover.
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"Cat's in the Cradle" is a #folkRock song by American singer-songwriter #HarryChapin, from his fourth studio album, #VeritiesAndBalderdash (1974). The single topped the US #Billboard Hot 100 in December 1974. As Chapin's only number-one song, it became his #signatureSong and a staple for folk rock music. Chapin's recording of the song was nominated for the 1975 #GrammyAwardForBestMalePopVocalPerformance and was inducted into the #GrammyHallOfFame in 2011.
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YouTubeCats In The Cradle-Harry ChapinBy ETWETWFANS
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Love – Love (1966, US)

As randomly chosen by survey[1] on Mastodon, our next spotlight is on number 1043 on The List, submitted by mark_ohe.

As I had mentioned in our last couple SpaceAce Sundays, after I had finished indexing The List, I discovered that, of the ~1035 albums we had thus far included, none had been released in 1966. When I tooted “was no one pressing records in 1966?”, some lovely Mastodonians promptly named 16 albums from that year that were worthy of adding to The List. This one, Love’s self-titled debut, is one such album.

And how! I was hooked by the music from track 1, a grin-inducing cover of Burt Bacharach’s “My Little Red Book” (a cover which fans of the film High Fidelity may recognize[2]). By the second track, I had to read more about the fabulous singer, Arthur Lee. And by the time I got to the amazing “Signed D.C.” in the middle of side 2, I realized I hadn’t been listening to the album loud enough, and had to restart the album. Given the album cover and that font, I did not expect essentially a proto-punk album. Love it! And if you give it a spin, I bet you’ll love Love’s Love too!

  1. The survey choices that initially led to this spotlight were “I’m not a human, I’m a dove”, “I’m your conscience, I am love”, “All I really need”, and “Is to know that you believe”, following surveys that had “I’m not a woman, I’m not a man”/“I am something that you’ll never understand”/“I’ll never beat you, I never lie”/“And if you’re evil I’ll forgive you by and by cuz”, “You, I would die 4 U, yeah”/”Darling, if you want me to”/”You, I would die 4 U”, “I’m not your lover, I’m not your friend”/“I am something that you’ll never comprehend”/“No need to worry, no need to cry”/“I’m your messiah and you’re the reason why” and “You’re just a sinner, I am told”/“Be your fire when you’re cold”/“Make you happy when you’re sad”/“Make you good when you are bad”. The second option was the winning selection, and so the survey result was translated as picking an album in The List that contained a word in the phrase – in this case, “love”. Usually that would mean I pick the second album in the list with the word, but since there’s a LOT of love in The List, I went with the one that had it twice. The weird thing is, when I was writing this spotlight, “When Doves Cry” came on. So, I think Prince approved of my choice. ↩︎
  2. Two other Love tracks appear in the movie, from their 1969 Four Sail album: “Always See Your Face” and “Your Friend and Mine”. ↩︎
The cover art is a photo of the band 5 people, leaning on a stone monument or ruin of some sort, looking at the camera and giving their best "I couldn't really be bothered, I'm a rock and roll musician" look. The band's name is in large stylized letters written vertically from the top left corner down.
#1960s#ArthurLee#folkRock
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Joni Mitchell – Blue (1971, Canada)

Our next spotlight is on number 281 on The List, submitted by baz.

Because k.d. lang’s cover of Joni Mitchell’s “Case of You” last spotlight was so good, here’s the masterpiece that has the original, from another absolutely iconic Albertan and Canadian.

On the back of a cartoon coaster
In the blue TV screen light
I drew a map of Canada
Oh, Canada
With your face sketched on it twice

Blue is Mitchell’s 4th LP, and probably her most well-known. If you’re not familiar with her work, this is a great place to start.

The cover art is a blue and white photo of the artist's face, with long hair and eyes closed. The album name is in blue font in the top left corner, with the artist's name in smaller lighter blue font directly below it.
#1970s#Canada#folkRock
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"Cat's in the Cradle" is a #folkRock song by American singer-songwriter #HarryChapin, from his fourth studio album, #VeritiesAndBalderdash (1974). The single topped the US #Billboard Hot 100 in December 1974. As Chapin's only number-one song, it became his #signatureSong and a staple for folk rock music. Chapin's recording of the song was nominated for the 1975 #GrammyAwardForBestMalePopVocalPerformance and was inducted into the #GrammyHallOfFame in 2011.
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YouTubeCAT'S IN THE CRADLEBy Harry Chapin - Topic
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Jake in the desert

I mentioned Belgian multi-instrumentalist and singer Wim De Busser's project KING DICK last December in the post linked above this one, when he released single 'Romantic Love Shrine' (GREAT song) from his LP coming later this year.

And now King Dick just released a second single, 'Trolling My Feelings', and of course it's just as damn good. This one's on YouTube, not Bandcamp. Really looking forward to this LP.

youtube.com/watch?v=nVDPYDTIxv

A side note, I thought of the song because it amused me that it's exactly 4:20 long, as @nic noticed about The Cardigans' cover of Iron Man. Represent.

#KingDick #BelgianBands #BelgianArtists #Belgium #weird #FolkRock #indie #IndieMusic @skullvalanche @wendigo

YouTubeTrolling My FeelingsBy King Dick - Topic
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"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" is an uptempo, #strophic story song written by American #folkRock singer #JimCroce. Released as part of his 1973 album #LifeAndTimes, the song was a No. 1 hit for him, spending two weeks at the top of the #BillboardHot100 in July 1973. Billboard ranked it as the No. 2 song for 1973. Croce was nominated for two 1973 #GrammyAwards in the Pop Male Vocalist and Record of the Year categories for #BadBadLeroyBrown.
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YouTubeJim Croce - Bad Bad, Leroy Brown | Have You Heard: Jim Croce LiveBy Jim Croce
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