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Owiny Sigoma Band — Harpoon Land
Album: Power Punch
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6.7

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Total ratings: 1736









Released: 2013
Length: 2:50
Plays (last 30 days): 1
Get back, talk in broken language
Step right, down in this harpoon land
Tongue tied, words are unspoken
Let love

We haven't done much
But there's a lot going on
Sounds travel down a bloodline
Spirits live through the song

Get back, talk in broken language
Step right, down in this harpoon land
Tongue tied, words are unspoken
Let love

Get back, talk in broken language
Step right, down in this harpoon land
Tongue tied, words are unspoken
Let love

Hear the voices on the eight strings
Feel it breathing from the drums
Sounds travel down a bloodline
Spirits live through the song

This harpoon land
This harpoon land

Get back, talk in broken language
Step right, down in this harpoon land
Tongue tied, words are unspoken
Let love

Get back, talk in broken language
Step right, down in this harpoon land
Tongue tied, words are unspoken
Let love
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Let the chair dancing begin!
 ce wrote:


Bangin' on the bongos like a chimpanzee


That ain't working
Yeah, anything that has me bobbing my head and tapping my foot deserves better than a 7. My Big Spender here: 7 -> 8. Good fun, this. Happy Friday, all. :)
Ha! I don't know - I thought it was Beck!
Good song!
Found at:  https://www.huckmag.com/art-an...
Owiny Sigoma is a unique collaboration between two Kenyans: nyatiti master Joseph Nyamungu and Luo percussionist Charles Owoko (who tragically passed away after the band’s journey to Kenya); and three London-based musicians: Tom Skinner on drums, Jesse Hackett on vox/keys and his brother Louis Hackett on bass. Coming together across cultural, language and generational barriers, their music fuses rhythms, sounds and approaches from Kenya and the UK with a raw and organic flavour.
 ce wrote:


Bangin' on the bongos like a chimpanzee


oh that ain't workin'  thats the way you do it
cool tune, makes me think of tv on the radio Posted 6 months ago by lynn01 Sameness!
This would get me on the dance floor! Hopefully not by myself... 
I sense some Damon Albarn here...  ?
Could be Beck
cool tune, makes me think of tv on the radio
I would've bet money this was Peter Gabriel singing
 On_The_Beach wrote:
What's that, Hawaiian noises?
 
 
 

Bangin' on the bongos like a chimpanzee
 dubberdan wrote:
got me jiggling while making coffee
 

As one often does. 
 ziggytrix wrote:

Really reminds me of I Zimbra.
 Ditto!

groovy little tune. got me jiggling while making coffee
 coloradojohn wrote:
Reminds me of how Talking Heads really blew us away with these funky rhythms, especially I Zimbra and the album Naked. Jam stuff!

 
Really reminds me of I Zimbra.
What's that, Hawaiian noises?
 
 
{#Hearteyes}
What a great song... says it all...

Get back, talk in broken language
Step right, down in this harpoon land
Tongue tied, words are unspoken
Let love

Get back, talk in broken language
Step right, down in this harpoon land
Tongue tied, words are unspoken
Let love

Get back, talk in broken language
Step right, down in this harpoon land
Tongue tied, words are unspoken
Let love

We haven't done much
But there's a lot going on
Sounds travel down a bloodline
Spirits live through the song

Get back, talk in broken language
Step right, down in this harpoon land
Tongue tied, words are unspoken
Let love

Get back, talk in broken language
Step right, down in this harpoon land
Tongue tied, words are unspoken
Let love

Hear the voices on the eight strings
Feel it breathing from the drums
Sounds travel down a bloodline
Spirits live through the song

This harpoon land
This harpoon land

 

Get back, talk in broken language
Step right, down in this harpoon land
Tongue tied, words are unspoken
Let love

Get back, talk in broken language
Step right, down in this harpoon land
Tongue tied, words are unspoken
Let love

{#Bananajam}{#Dancingbanana_2}{#Clap}{#Bananasplit}{#Bananajumprope}{#Dancingbanana}{#Dance}
 ziggytrix wrote:
Vocals sound quite like TV On the Radio to me.

 
Indeed! I thought it might be new TV on the Radio, so I clicked through to check. 

(ETA: OK, so this song is five years old...this is the first time I've noticed it!)
Vocals sound quite like TV On the Radio to me.
{#Dancingbanana_2}{#Bananasplit}{#Sunny}{#Bananajumprope}{#Dancingbanana} Let's dance !!! Good mood and energy levels full {#Music}
TomTomClub hommage?
{#Music}     {#Dancingbanana_2}{#Dancingbanana_2}{#Dancingbanana_2}
 cShaggy wrote:
..i'm not grokking it..may improve with the next go-'round?..
 
"Thou art God!"
I bee feel'in eet!!

 groovy GIF
a 10 from the Floridian chairdancer.
Surprising, same as a new song by Peter Gabriel could have been some 20 years ago
Reminds me of how Talking Heads really blew us away with these funky rhythms, especially I Zimbra and the album Naked. Jam stuff!
I usually don't fancy african rythms, but this one hits a soft spot!
Very cool tune. Be dancin'.
                       Slipstream

                 I'd  be in St. Tropez
                  And you'd tease
 ziakut wrote:

Fair enough. I'm being a bit dramatic...but I see it as an opportunity lost. Decent groove with a very disappointing attempt at album art. How's that?

 
Makes sense; it is disappointing and/or annoying when recording artists don't bother having decent cover art.
 ziakut wrote:

Fair enough. I'm being a bit dramatic...but I see it as an opportunity lost. Decent groove with a very disappointing attempt at album art. How's that?

 
Wasn't that the point ?
 Proclivities wrote:

I'm not sure I'd consider that cover art "deplorable" - but it does look like something made by a high-school kid in the 1970s with a sheet of Letraset and a dull X-Acto knife.  Not a bad tune, though.

 
Fair enough. I'm being a bit dramatic...but I see it as an opportunity lost. Decent groove with a very disappointing attempt at album art. How's that?
You don't want me to work tonight, do you? Too many tunes that aren't content simply to stay in the background!
Loving the bass, but not the twanging random stuff over the top of it all 
I know it's already been mentioned, but this sounds ridiculously similar to a bunch of tracks by Grand National...
Not a fan.  Just can't get past the cover.
Never heard this Owiny tune... 2013? I think I need this album! 
wow - I never read the Belgian bit. Great song!
 

unclehud wrote:

Harpoon Land = Boston




     Harpoon Land = Boston



 


Had the great pleasure to work, live and play in the greater Boston area for nearly all of 2009.  Memories I will cherish forever.  

unclehud wrote:

Harpoon Land = Boston




     Harpoon Land = Boston



 


Like it - reminds me of Gorrilaz
 unclehud wrote:

Harpoon Land = Boston




     Harpoon Land = Boston



 


Love Harpoon Ale.  This song, not so much.
 Quite a comedown after Paco De Lucia and John Martyn
"Please allow me to introduce myself ..."

The first 10 seconds of that beat just remind me of sympathy for the devil by the stones :)
 pinto wrote:

Sounds like the guitarist wants to be Jerry Garcia and the bassist never got out of the disco era.

 
Garcia? I cannot get this, no matter how much I imagine it. The sound is African to my ears.
Is Harpoon Land close to Stake Land? {#Cheesygrin}

Anyway, nice groove!
first 20 seconds are exquisite ... 
 mcleandesign wrote:
Reminds me of earlier David Byrne......

 
I kept expecting Nothing but Flowers to start
Shades of the Police and Grand National. Like it!
Cool groove, for sure -- lots of things come to mind; African rhythms, haunting vocal styles, funky bass, trippy guitar adornments and rips!
New stuff!   Love it!  Keep it coming!
..i'm not grokking it..may improve with the next go-'round?..
Reminds me of earlier David Byrne......
 1wolfy wrote:
they say this cat Shaft is a bad mother f#%#%

 
{#Lol}
 CrackerjaxATX wrote:
i dig it...8. i'm a sucker for multiple percussion types
 
Sounds like the guitarist wants to be Jerry Garcia and the bassist never got out of the disco era.
i dig it...8. i'm a sucker for multiple percussion types
they say this cat Shaft is a bad mother f#%#%
Jezz, I usually have trouble turning you guys off but not today. Three losers in a row. And the next aint promising. See ya tomorrow.
 ziakut wrote:
Kinda like the music. I think the cover art is deplorable.

 
I'm not sure I'd consider that cover art "deplorable" - but it does look like something made by a high-school kid in the 1970s with a sheet of Letraset and a dull X-Acto knife.  Not a bad tune, though.
Kinda like the music. I think the cover art is deplorable.
...hey, more owiny sigoma band!..
{#Think} thought it would be energetic but fall asleepe.
Funky name —- kinda whiny guitars