I subscribe to Songlines, a world music magazine http://www.songlines.co.uk/ that is pretty good. Each month it includes a free CD with ten top tracks from the month’s new releases. This is a good way of learning about various musics from around the world. There are sometimes some fairly bizarre sounds on the CD – all part of the fun.
Anyway, this month I stuck the CD on in the kitchen and carried on with cooking dinner, listening to some good old wailing in the background. One track though sounded just plain out of tune, and with a horrible weedy electronic sound. Even I thought this was a bit much. Then it carried on into the next track…..
I investigated and found that Rowan had switched on the “signing birthday cake candles”. These charming products produce a terrible version of happy birthday to you, over and over again. Problem solved. But it could be the start of a new fusion movement – tacky sounds and roots music..
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