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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

Takin’ a try on the other side,
starin’, buyin’, enjoyin’ the ride.
It’s so easy, an effortless fling,
they have me set up like a puppet on a string.
You ask me what’s wrong; I say, “Nothing’s there.”
It’s just the burning ember I feel cuz I’m aware.
What can it be? What do you perceive?
The smolder tells me that we both are deceived.
Lo grade dread - that we all have been misled
Lo grade dread - from inbred merit inherited
I fear my own people; we got no roots.
Our gods are men in business suits.
Church of the times: dollar sign.
Faith means nothing with the bottom line.
Not carin’ enough for one another.
Forgettin’ the meaning of sister and brother.
Ho humdrum life, the privileged scene,
we’re part of the problem just by bein’.
Lo grade dread - it’s the fuel that runs my head.
Brakelights on the freeways, in minutes what used to be days.
This pace is like a cultural seizure.
History is spreading like official amnesia.
Curiosity makes biotech flowers,
free trade dictates corporate powers.
There’s talk of Armageddon in Babylon’s towers.
The cost of this perpetual growth is not ours.
Mountains belching smoke and ash.
Outside, the people spewing gunk.
Inside, I’m plaintive at the window, held captive to this funk.
(I got) Lo grade dread
when dreaming of the places we should have been led.
I and I singing this should make a Rastaman laugh,
I and I got no struggle to speak of in my past.
But I and I sick of profiteering from the colors of my skin,
the only way I and I know of to deal with this sin is...
Dread

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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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