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    Produced by Dickie Ogden and the Set, Chemystry Set's fifth CD, Cobblestone Below My Feet, ferments three years of travel, storytelling, friendships, and recording magic into a rich and highly intoxicating elixir. On their fifth release, the band that has made a name for itself over the last ten years with boundary-defying music and message-driven songs is coming of age in this beautifully dynamic tapestry of tightly-arranged and rockin' compositions. Written during and after their 2003 European tour, Cobblestone Below My Feet is an invitation across language, culture, and consciousness. Like a carriage ride through history, hitting the cobblestone with an amalgam of sounds and an ever-fresh poetic luminescence, this album takes the listener into another time zone, all along establishing connections not only to the present, but the future of humanity. Includes beautiful black and white cobblestone photography by Debra Baida.
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    released November 4, 2006

    Dickie Ogden - Drums
    Joel Oppenheimer - Bass
    Baba Ndjhoni - Mandolin, Vocals
    Patty Hughes - Wurli Piano, Vocals
    Sven Eberlein - Guitars, Vocals

    SPECIAL GUESTS
    Joe Balestreri - Trumpet
    Dan Heffez - Alto Sax
    Nathaniel Hawkes & Baba Ndjhoni - Horn Arrangements

    ©2006 Ogden Park / Tuber Creations

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lyrics

I’ve sung all that I have to sing, my ambition has been spent.
The only expectation left: to figure out what all of this has meant.
To greed or not to greed? Why do you still beg that question?
Come sit around our stump, making progress marked by hesitation.
In the midst of abject greed, I turn my gaze upon my own creed.
There was a time, and there are still some places,
where man could get more than his fill without leaving any traces.
But with the speed with which we feed, this time has now passed,
and those remaining ponds of plenty are drying up so fast.
Skipping hopes. They ricochet....but they still agitate.
No more subject.
No more crown.
It’s time to keep that hunger down.
There will always be some people of ambition with no bound,
and they must be befriended by those still on the ground.
They must be told a tale of a life that’s not for sale.
Break the bread.
Turn the brown....
it’s time to keep that hunger down.

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from Cobblestone Below My Feet (and other tales of devils and onions), released November 4, 2006
music & words by baba ndjhoni
brewed by chemystry set

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Chemystry Set San Francisco, California

Musicianship tight as an atom, music wild and roaming as the imagination of the unknown. It’s like everything and nothing I’ve ever heard, a screaming reminder that rock is rebellion and must be reinvented each time it’s played, or else it’s just pop.

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