YES FOLKS - it's here! SB's new CD!!!

CD cover

Finally...after months of sweat, blood and heartache...here it is
- SB and a cast of thousands bring you...Well Shed

The album's a mixture of live recordings, giving a flavour of our street performances, and studio stuff made with friends ( - and massive doses of technology!). With over 70 minutes of listening pleasure, there's something here for every musical taste.
To buy a copy, send a cheque/PO for Ł7.50 (plus Ł1.50 p.&p.) to
SAMBA BANGOR RECORDING PROJECT,
32, COLLEGE ROAD,
BANGOR
GWYNEDD, LL57
(all proceeds from CD sales go towards the promotion of community music, and future recordings by us and other community bands)

Track List
You can listen to samples of the first few tracks - if you want to hear the rest, you'll have to buy the album!!

ze bob shed (3' 0")
Our paean of praise to Bob the welder and his amazing corrugated iron shed (now sadly demolished, but formerly situated adjacent to the A55 Holyhead-Chester dual carriageway). Written and"sung" by Johnti, this has been part of our repertoire for some years now (there's a live version later on the CD): here, it's arranged and recorded by Ze Lima with the brass section from top Welsh band 'Anweledig'. Dedicated to corrugated iron everywhere.
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sarué (5' 37")
Traditional Brazilian song set to a baiao rhythm shown us by Ze Lima and a sort of baiao of our own invention! Featuring the sublime vocals of Kate Watkiss, and a kiddies' toy that goes plinka-plinka when you turn the handle!
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ze coco (2' 15")
The first of our "street sounds" tracks. Coco rhythm courtesy of Ze (who is leading the band here - you can hear him in the background calling the breaks). The street noises, incidentally, were added later by Stelios, and were actually recorded by him in Havana.
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barber bill (2' 42")
This is another song of ours that you'll hear again on the album - here given the full studio treatment by mixmaster Stelios Giannoulakis.
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xote beat (4' 48")
Brazil meets Greek island folk via Northern Soul! Inspired by the Major Lance classic 'The Beat', and featuring Stelios on violin, this is for soulies everywhere!
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lôn cariadon (3' 40")
A composition by Ze Lima, inspired by his time in Bangor and our own 'banghra beat', and again featuring those mellifluous Anweledig brass boys!
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soukous (6' 10")
SB friend John Wilce, Stelios, & Johnti stir up a potent brew of 'African' magic. We defy you to keep your hips still to this one!
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martelo cefn gwlad (3' 55")
The 'conscious' lyrics of Steve Roberts, ex-Mwg vocalist, some screaming guitar from Stelios, and a martial maracatu... Hard!
luanda (2' 51")
Another maracatu, this time overlaid with an interweaving bass/multi-horn impro that builds to a post-bop riff finale!!! Honestly!!
olha conga (3' 49")
This is a traditional capoeira song we've set to a 6/8 rhythm. It starts off in a folkloric style with congas and cowbell, builds with some rich instrumentation, and closes on Kate's solo vocals.
ze barber bill (3' 33")
Ze Lima arranges the Anweledig brass boys to produce a laid-back version of our own song.
samba street (4' 05")
Live, outdoors, SB marches along to a mid-tempo partido alto that mutates into a straight-ahead Rio-style samba.
ze xote beat (1' 32")
The second in a sequence of live batucada tracks, this one showcasing a Ze Lima arrangement of a xote rhythm.
bangora beat (2'11")
Our own 'banghra'-style composition.
barber shed street (5' 29")
A raw street medley of Bob's Shed & Barber Bill, with Johnti's vocals comin' at ya via a megaphone!
ze baiao street (0' 40")
...a little clip of a baiao taught us by Ze Lima
ijexa (2' 40")
This and the following track are from a benefit gig we did in 1999 at Penygroes alongside top Manchester band Sambanghra, and feature tunes we learnt from Dudu Tucci on his Afoxe Project...
congo (1' 44")
...Dudu has to be acknowledged as one of the key figures, if not THE key figure, in the development of samba in the UK. Respect.
samba life (9' 08")
A word of explanation for this track. This is a section from a much longer piece of electro-accoustic music - 'Sabatimpa' by Stelios Giannoulakis - commissioned for the Bangor New Music Festival 2002. In this section, Stelios used electronically-treated snatches of recordings from our practice sessions - individual instrument sounds, voices, accidental noises, group playing - to create a soundscape. During the performance, we accompanied this, responding to the recorded sound with live sounds and rhythms What you hear on this track is Stelios' recording of that performance - which has been subjected to further treatment and remixing! Hope that's clear. Anyway, sit back, relax and enjoy the journey...
hawaii five OH!
Us in impromptu improvising mode - a little snatch of one of those rehearsal recordings rescued from the bin!!
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