ANST - CD Review: Mac Umba, "Bruhuhaha" (1999)

[j'lynn yeates]

CD Review: Mac Umba, "Bruhuhaha" (1999)

(i hope that some located my previous suggestions (Mediaeval Baebes), have been 
getting some positive feedback from the locals i’ve been turning on to them & 
Miranda Sex Garden).

today, for our “pipe & drum” factions, we have the latest from MacUmba, 
Bruhuhaha (which could have been named “Gael Warning” amongst some even worse 
(better?) punations 
 i do enjoy their outlook on things (g)).  

first off, if you only allow yourself to enjoy “traditional” pipe & drum, this 
is probably not for you.  if on the other hand, you enjoy eclectic 
hybridization and love bagpipes and drumming it’s a “must have”

in ths album, they are all over the musical soundsacpe from very tradional 
scot’s pipe & drum to very caribbean voudon & south american samba 
 but 
usually drifting between the two extremes (usually in the same songs 
 grin)

 1. Glenmalambo 
	
 a bit of the old voudon drumming beat here
 2. Gale Warning
	
 a “sambareggaethang”
 3. Asa Branco
	
 bit of traditional scots, bit of popular brazilian
 4. Gordon’s
	
 rumba’ish 
 5. Springtime Cha Cha
	
 cuban “bata”, scot’s marches, brazillian samba
 6. Brenda’s
	
 nice traditional’ish reel
 7. Jamie’s Request
    
 one of those gems that pop’s up when people start jamming with pipes &
	drums and someone turns on the recorders to catch the mayhem on tape
 8. Dinky’s
	
 more traditional scot’s reels mixed with samba
 9. Mildew Mayhem
	
 “maracatu, a rhythm for kings and queens”
10. Steam Train
	
 bossa, baiao & rabbie dubb

for the drummer folk out there this is a excellent album to play along with 
 
listened to it first time for the ears, second time with the ashiko, third time 
with the djembe 
 fun / fun / fun (with wicked thoughts of what a taiko would 
sound like with it 
).  let this band get under your skin and you will never 
hear the pipes the same way 
 get it under the pipers skins and they’ll be down 
in the drum pit with ya’

some more information is available at:

www.taynet.co.uk/users/macumba

if you get the chance, see these people live 
 i caught them last tour and it 
was a marvelous show

‘wolf


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