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You can hear the Reprezent Radio interview I did last November online at the Culture Kitchen page!
Karmadillo news
Reprezent Radio Interview
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| 10:00 pm |
Rishi will be talking about the Bard For Life album in a Monday night interview for an online show going out live from 8pm on Monday. Just go to http://www.reprezent.org.uk and click ‘live stream’.
Bard For Life – The Album
We are proud to announce that the first Karmadillo album with UkeyLove Records is now available on iTunes! ‘Bard For Life’ features 11 Karmadillo tracks, available for the first time online.
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Places to Buy The Album |
Track Listings
- Noone Else (drums)
- Veloceraptor
- Why Must I Be A Teenage Zombie In Love
- Facebook Makes This Bit Easy
- Still
- Australia
- Noone Else Oboe Mashup (original)
- Rent Boy
- Woman In Red
- E.T.
- Mars and Venus
The album is in part a retrospective of Karmadillo work in the naughties, and features contributions from many Cambridge musicians including Jon Craven from Liquid Sky, accordian maestro Karl Sandeman and Tom Barden, drummer from the Pony Collaboration.
The album cover was designed by Miss Roberts of the Rude Mechanicals.
Geekpop Summer song writing challenge – Prizewinner!!!
Karmadillo are pleased to announce that the song entry for the Geekpop Summer Song Writing Challenge has won the Most Contrived Rhyme Prize! Why not peruse the lyrics of our biographical song on Gregor Mendel and figure out which couplet was the winner. Or listen to the geekpop podcast and hear it for yourself!
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It is the same day the career killing Mercury Award prize is announced – I’d rather have this one as if my career nosedives from here I’ll never get to play at Glastonbury again!
The overall winner was a fantastic song on the nature of Google. I didn’t catch the singers name (Naomi F…?) properly but someone worth watching out for. While lots of geeky songs are clever this was also quite moving, funny and poignant.
Thanks to the Geekpop team and the judges for their decision. Now to decide what to spend £25 of science vouchers, supplied courtesy of the Graphic Science.
Don’t forget if you like contrived rhymes more can be heard during the chorus on our single at http://karmadillo.org/2010/08/22/noone-else-karmadillos-first-ever-single-release/
Arabidopsis Interview
OK, its not the usual place for a musician to be intervewed, but thanks to our ARABIDOPSIS song we have been interviewed by THE NODE – a community of developmental biologists! The song vid if you haven’t seen it before is also at the site.
Miranda July passes 2000 views on YouTube
A song I wrote a couple of years ago with a has just past 2000 view on Youtube!
Some of the charango playing on this video could doing with improvement and I’ve just noticed that Youtube now allow the swapping in and out of the soundtrack so I’ll put that on the to do list!
You Must Be Mendel – Geekpop Song Competition entry
The Babble
I’d sat down a few days ago to think of a science song for the Geekpop Science competition due tomorrow. I couldn’t come up with anything musical, though I vaguely had the idea of writing something about Gregor Mendel, who pioneered the work in genetics while a monk with loads of time on his hands (Over 25000 pea plants in 6 years!). As I have plenty of other stuff to do with a single just launched and the Bard For Life album launch coming up, as well as recovering from my knee injury, I decided to let it go.
All that changed this evening as I went to get a pint of milk at the Co-op. I started humming a tune in my head and once I’d also come up with the phrase ‘Mendel Arithmetic’ there was no going back. I didn’t have my mobile on me to get the ideas down so I am particularly proud to not loose the tune or the lyrics I was constructing on the way to the shop. Also before getting down to writing the song I had answer a quick phone call from Mrs Karmadillo and hunt around for a number in Germany for her. It was then recorded in one take for the charango, one take for vocals and then sent off as the competition entry!
The Music
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The Words
You grew up on the family farm
Moved to a monastery with an experimental gar-den
Six years of wrapping bags around the flowers of plants
Giving us the music for the genetic dance
You must be Mendel Mendel Mendel Mendel yeay oh yeah
You analysed traits of the plants that give us peas
Then controlled how they got to breed
You then analysed the plants that grew from the seeds
Eventually proposing living things had genes
You must be Mendel Mendel Mendel Mendel yeay oh yeah
Its a shame they didn’t believe / in the theory you got from you plants
It was only after you died / that they gave the peas a chance
Growing 29000 plants was not the only trick
You still had to perform some Mendel arithmetic
Probabilities of hybrids, dominant and recessive traits
Giving us genetics and showing us the way
You must be Mendel Mendel Mendel Mendel yeay oh yeah
Noone Else – Karmadillo’s first ever single release!!!
One month after having been crowned winners of the Cambridge Busking Festival 2010, Karmadillo are proud to announce the launch of their first ever single!
The song is Noone Else from the forthcoming Bard For Life album and is available from iTunes UK and iTunes US. It should also be going up on Amazon soon!
Here’s a video made to go with the song. Footage was shot in a day and was hastily put together for another project, but hope you enjoy!
Single Available from iTunes (and now with added Amazon!), released September 2010. More stores coming soon
You may not have the time and money
To get psychiatric help
But you can get on to the online stores
And buy Noone Else!
Unlike X-Factor contestants this single is autotune free and features James Thomas on bass and Pip Johnson on drums. Produced and recorded by Tom Gaskell. Cheers guys!
Bard For Life Album Cover
We’re pleased to announce the album cover of the forthcoming BARD FOR LIFE album!
It was drawn by Miss Roberts of Rude Mechanicals fame.
Karmadillo 'Bard For Life' album cover
Drop us a line if you’d like to stay informed of its release date.