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A typical evening at The Green Ark (Alan's kitchen and music room, Motueka, Aotearoa/New Zealand). A collection of reggae and folk tunes featuring a North Island Maori busker, a Botswanan Rastafarian and a veteran of the UK 90's road protest scene.
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Artist/Composer: A Tiny Window
Date: 2006-10-19
Source: MiniDisc
Keywords: saz; baglama; drone; droning; acoustic; atmospheric; folk; free psych-folk; free psychfolk; free psych folk; freeform; improv; improvisation; improvisational; improvisatory; improvised; improvising; jam; jamming; lofi; lo-fi; organic; other; psychedelia; psychedelic; psychfolk; psych-folk; space; spacey; spontaneous; modal; reggae; roots; Rastafari; Rasta; nyabinghi; Motueka; New Zealand; Aotearoa; Breton; recorder; Maori; Botswana; Botswanan; Africa; African; traditional African; African traditional; traditional Breton; Breton traditional; melodica; mbira; recorder; Burning Spear
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Ras Judah; Matthew, Alan and Helen; Matua Matua - guitar, vocals, percussion Alan - guitar, vocals, percussion Ras Judah - guitar, vocals, mbira, percussion Helen - guitar, vocals, recorder, melodica, percussion Ras Levi - percussion, vocals Saan - percussion, vocals Matthew - saz The session started in the kitchen after Alan and Ras Levi returned from their weekly show on the local station Fresh FM, which had featured Ras Judah (from Botswana, now living in Aotearoa) promoting his new CD Jah Warrior. We were happy to see that they'd brought Judah home with them for a bit of a jam... "Jah No Dead" is (approximately) the old Burning Spear song. "Basimanyana" is a traditional Botswanan cattle herder's song (at least that's what I remember Judah telling us). The correct title of "song for the East Coast" is unknown to me - it's sung in Maori, but Matua shouts out a few lines of translation. "Naletsana" is a traditional African riddle put to music by Judah. As with "Basimanyana", this was the first time I'd heard this song, so I feel any slightly clumsy playing is forgivable. "Mama Africa" is one of Matua's songs, wherein he outlines his basic Maori/Rasta philosophy: "New Zealand, Aotearoa, The Land of the Long White Cloud...is Africa for I and I!" The "mbira jam" resulted after Judah compared my saz playing to kora playing (one of the nicest things anyone could possibly say about it). I mentioned having listened to a lot of kora and mbira music, so he went out to his car to get his mbira. Unfortunately it got a bit drowned out in the enthusiastic percussion. After that, Helen showed up and we moved into the music room... "Higher Grow", "Rainbow Reggae", "Maugha Mountain" and "Busking" are all Alan's songs, which he wanted to run through in advance of the session a few days later when we recorded his busking CD. "possible Breton tune" sounds pretty Breton to me, but Helen can't remember whether or not she made it up. Our shared familiarity with this kind of music goes back to our shared involvement in the 90's UK road protest scene and it's associated music (i.e. this kind of thing). The last time we spent any time together was 1993, when I only played a bit of guitar (badly) and she the pennywhistle. She certainly made up "There's Only Now" (that one's got some great lyrics, but she doesn't sing them here - a version where you can just about hear them is here). "I Rise" is Helen's an adaptation of a prayer by St. Patrick (she's changed "God" to "Jah" throughout). Matua can be just about heard, lying on the floor, coming out with a kind of devotional Rasta stream-of-consciousness in response to it (and then saying "Beautiful!" at the end). She actually started off singing Stevie Wonder's "Master Blaster" and morphed into this (Stevie Wonder meets St. Patrick - cool, eh?), but that song was unfortunately marred by one of Matua's younger kids rather-too-enthusiastically playing on a drum near the microphone "Do You Wanna Dance?" was the result of Matua mis-recognising some chords Alan started playing (for one of his many three-chord reggae songs) and, while still lying on the floor, starting to sing the old rock 'n' roll classic...although it sounds like he's making up most of the words! So we proceeded to muddle our way through that instead. It's actually The Ramones' version I know best. This is very rough, but a little gem which captures the vibe of a particularly enjoyable evening, nonetheless. |
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| GreenArk191006_64kb_mp3.zip | 64Kbps MP3 ZIP | 34 MB |
| GreenArk191006_vbr.m3u | VBR M3U | Stream |
| GreenArk191006_vbr_mp3.zip | VBR ZIP | 81 MB |
| Audio Files | 192Kbps MP3 | Ogg Vorbis | 64Kbps MP3 | VBR MP3 |
| Jah No Dead | 4.45 MB | 2.20 MB | 1.48 MB | 3.48 MB |
| Basimanyana | 6.48 MB | 2.97 MB | 2.16 MB | 4.72 MB |
| song for the East Coast | 6.58 MB | 3.19 MB | 2.19 MB | 5.17 MB |
| Naletsana | 7.08 MB | 3.43 MB | 2.36 MB | 6.06 MB |
| Mama Africa | 11 MB | 4.98 MB | 3.53 MB | 7.95 MB |
| mbira jam | 7.90 MB | 3.74 MB | 2.63 MB | 5.80 MB |
| Higher Grow | 7.85 MB | 3.90 MB | 2.62 MB | 6.81 MB |
| possible Breton tune | 2.53 MB | 1.24 MB | 863 KB | 1.87 MB |
| Rainbow Reggae | 11 MB | 5.59 MB | 3.79 MB | 9.47 MB |
| There's Only Now | 4.04 MB | 1.93 MB | 1.35 MB | 3.30 MB |
| Maugha Mountain | 13 MB | 6.10 MB | 4.18 MB | 10 MB |
| I Rise | 6.99 MB | 3.44 MB | 2.33 MB | 5.48 MB |
| Busking (In a Town Where No one's Ever Busked Before) | 7.22 MB | 3.59 MB | 2.41 MB | 5.87 MB |
| There's Only Now II | 2.82 MB | 1.30 MB | 962 KB | 2.25 MB |
| Do You Wanna Dance? | 3.41 MB | 1.65 MB | 1.14 MB | 2.78 MB |
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