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The Return of the Space Turkeys
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An instrumental, medium-tempo, mixolydian tune with a slightly Rockers-Reggae-influenced backing. Real Strings and drum sounds from a Roland TR-606. From the upcoming album
folk quirky exotic finland land kantele stani steinbock staeni
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Quirky music on folk instruments.
The Kantele is the Finnish National instrument, but The Runaway Kantele runs away from strictly traditional music. The Runaway Kantele has performed at Folk and Jazz (!?) festivals in Finland and on Åland and did a tour of the Faeroe Islands in september/october 2008 (Pictures at: http://www.myspace.com/steinbockstani). The Runaway Kantele uses the oldest form of Kantele, with 5 strings plus guitar, guitar-banjo, woodwinds, sometimes even strings.
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Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Folk
Charts
Peak #67
Peak in subgenre #14
Author
Stäni Steinbock
Rights
Stäni Steinbock
Uploaded
April 30, 2009
Track Files
MP3
MP3 2.2 MB • 128 kbps • 2:22
Story behind the song
The song was originally titled "Small Machines" but when talking with old friend ben Antell about MIDI-guitars, Ben complained that his MIDI-guitar, an early Roland, gave him "Space Turkeys" (mis-trigging) that he had to erase. That's when I realised that "The return of the space turkeys" sounds better. I had Thomas bergman build me a special (smaller) kantele for this song, because it uses the notes D E F# G A instead of the normal sixe kantele's GAHCD, and transposing didn't work with the chord voicings I had written. Since that I've also used that kantele on the Kra song Pulau Gempa Bumi which ended up on the Kra CD Guttural Shock http://www.cdbaby.com/kramusic
Lyrics
No lyrics, but playing the song live I usually start off with a little taximi before the song begins.
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