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Background - Freewheeling20,000 Leagues Above Peckham - Ricky EdwardsA soulful chant smokes itself into the room, only to be suddenly evicted by a strain of Middle Eastern Funk. When someone turns the channel knob of the radio, Mr. Latino appears (genie-like) and tries to make his presence felt. A mock fight ensues between Mr. Latino and the stream of Middle Eastern Funk. After a short bout, the two unite (kinda Hispando-Mooresque) and the room fills with more water. Mr. Latino has definitely coloured the water by this time and everyone now puts on aqualung disco gear. Eventually a few jazz chords gate-crash the steaming underwater party, and a school choir is hired to usher in the reinstatement of the soulful chant. (Ricky Edwards). Bogota CID - Will Embling The first and last sections of this piece are inspired by the music of Thelonious Monk, the jazz pianist and composer, noted for his angular melodies, sometimes humorous rhythmic displacements abd whole-tone runs on the piano. The middle section is written in the Latin American idiom - the piano, bass and drum kit play a rhythmic pattern characteristic of 'salsa', over which the trumpet and alto saxophone play solos. (Philip Clouts). (This piece was re-named 'Burping the Bambino', before the salsa section left home to form the germ of the 'fall' section of 'The Rise and Fall of The Empanada'). Hanging Onto Anything That Moves - Duncan Noble/Steve Hall This piece was originally conceived as a song, and performed by an eight-piece band including three singers. Written on Tyneside during the depression of the early '80s, the lyrics reflect the efforts of the unemployed to establish their own individual identies, rather than those consigned to them by others, and to find meaning and purpose in their own way. A heavy 6/4 groove, African in character, alternates with a lighter 6/8 section, reminiscent of South American folk music. In the Zubop instrumental arrangement, a fragment of the old Northumbrian street-sellers' cry 'Buy Broom Besoms' is used as a riff (at the end of a section featuring the alto and tenor saxophones), which, hopefully, demonstrates that compound time British folk tunes are compatible with polyrhythmic ferment . . . Hanging onto anything that moves Hanging onto anything Hanging onto anything that moves Hanging onto anything Blue all day, all night, all week That's how it is Hanging onto anything Has to be something (to) keep us alive (1) All too familiar - Bees in a hive (2) Canned like the laughter - Drowned in the jive (3) Too much recorded - Locked in a dive Better than romance and Not just a new dance and Not just a way to stay cool Words and music by Duncan Noble, arranged with Steve Hall c. 1984 PRS Down The Stairs - Philip Clouts This piece is a journey through three areas, all inspired by '60s soul music. The first section is in F minor, and the theme is stated by the ensemble followed by a solo. The second section introduces a new bass line and features a flute solo which follows the chords as they move chromatically from D back up to F, where a further bass line in F major heralds the third section. The piece ends with a return to the F minor and a restatement of the theme. (Philip Clouts). These notes were written for the programme for a gig in Keele University Chapel, Thursday February 13, 1992, at which Zubop, with Lindon Donaldson on drums, performed material from Cycle City (Global Bop, [In Search of] Cycle City, Cuba Si!) and freewheeling (20,000 Leagues Above Peckham, Hanging Onto Anything That Moves, Down The Stairs), plus other unrecorded material (Bogota CID - Embling, Sunset Strut - Clouts, Lost in Thought - Petter, Stomp for Sisulu - Clouts).
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