16 Tons with Ally "Safari" Chaos & Anarchy CAAC-1024
Release date: 5 February 2014
Running time: 29:25, 7 tracks
Last month our colleagues from the e-zine Idioteq posted an interesting interview with Gord Taylor . Someone on Facebook pointed out the following words from that interview: “So my advice for new bands who wanna play bagpipes in their band…don’t worry about trying to be ‘Celtic Punk Rock’. Just try to be Fucking Good!”
Great minds think alike! 16 Tons with Ally released their album before that interview, but they followed the very same approach. Tadashi Inoue (vocals, acordion, guitar), Sei Komiyama (guitar, banjo), Go Oue (bass), Takashi Oshida (drums) and Ally (great Highland bagpipes, tin whistle) could have tried to deliver a fast-paced Irish infused folk punk album à la Cherry Coke$. However, they wanted to show all the different sounds that the accordion, the banjo and the pipes are able to offer.
“Safari” is an album for for open-minded music lovers, but the Celtic punk diehard fan will also find some interesting stuff. For instance, numbers such as “Piper’s Tongue”, a musical voyage from Galicia to Scotland, and “Shokuminchi no uta”, an infectious song featuring tin whistle instead of bagpipes that will make you grab a beer and sing-a-long even if you don’t speak Japanese. The opening number, “Safari”, is not too distant from bagpipes rock. However, “Rentan kikan-sha” goes to a different place, techno-pipes in the Hamish McDoodle & The Kicking Keltic Kaos Krew vein. Neverthless, IMHO, the true gem on the mini-album is the second song, “Kujaku cho”, an accordion led Japanese pop number with a Serge Gainsbourg twist.
16 Tons with Ally "Safari" is not intended for the fans who love the Japanese rustic/Poguesish scene, but it’s an awesome collection of songs for those who are looking for surprises and forget about the established rules of the genre.
Track listing:
01 - Safari
02 - Kujaku cho (Peacock Butterfly)
03 - Piper's Tongue
04 - Shokuminchi no uta (Song of the Colonial)
05 - Aguriasu
06 - Rentan kikan-sha - Dub Version GORIKI Mix (Briquettes Locomotive)
07 - Sayonara chari 2013 Dub Version GORIKI Mix (Goodbye Charlie)
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Review by Kinksmarkham
Release date: 5 February 2014
Running time: 29:25, 7 tracks
Last month our colleagues from the e-zine Idioteq posted an interesting interview with Gord Taylor . Someone on Facebook pointed out the following words from that interview: “So my advice for new bands who wanna play bagpipes in their band…don’t worry about trying to be ‘Celtic Punk Rock’. Just try to be Fucking Good!”
Great minds think alike! 16 Tons with Ally released their album before that interview, but they followed the very same approach. Tadashi Inoue (vocals, acordion, guitar), Sei Komiyama (guitar, banjo), Go Oue (bass), Takashi Oshida (drums) and Ally (great Highland bagpipes, tin whistle) could have tried to deliver a fast-paced Irish infused folk punk album à la Cherry Coke$. However, they wanted to show all the different sounds that the accordion, the banjo and the pipes are able to offer.
“Safari” is an album for for open-minded music lovers, but the Celtic punk diehard fan will also find some interesting stuff. For instance, numbers such as “Piper’s Tongue”, a musical voyage from Galicia to Scotland, and “Shokuminchi no uta”, an infectious song featuring tin whistle instead of bagpipes that will make you grab a beer and sing-a-long even if you don’t speak Japanese. The opening number, “Safari”, is not too distant from bagpipes rock. However, “Rentan kikan-sha” goes to a different place, techno-pipes in the Hamish McDoodle & The Kicking Keltic Kaos Krew vein. Neverthless, IMHO, the true gem on the mini-album is the second song, “Kujaku cho”, an accordion led Japanese pop number with a Serge Gainsbourg twist.
16 Tons with Ally "Safari" is not intended for the fans who love the Japanese rustic/Poguesish scene, but it’s an awesome collection of songs for those who are looking for surprises and forget about the established rules of the genre.
Track listing:
01 - Safari
02 - Kujaku cho (Peacock Butterfly)
03 - Piper's Tongue
04 - Shokuminchi no uta (Song of the Colonial)
05 - Aguriasu
06 - Rentan kikan-sha - Dub Version GORIKI Mix (Briquettes Locomotive)
07 - Sayonara chari 2013 Dub Version GORIKI Mix (Goodbye Charlie)
Click to buy:
Amazon Japan
Review by Kinksmarkham
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