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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

Back in the day when I was King Tut,
too much gumbo, too much gut.
Ideas burning to the port and stern.
If it moves the music, it’s worth a learn.
On the other throne sits Neferttytty.
Tell her she won’t, and she will completely.
Sh’thawed her bod in a warmer clime,
bevies of bevvies to go with a twist of lime.
Like froggies in a boil, starting cold to the touch,
we don’t even know when we’ve had too much.
Stir the pot and quaff and chomp,
do the pharaoh zydecongo stomp.
All hail to the second son, Ludwig von.
Crusading knight? Nope, he’s the dawn.
A scribe of higher glyphic range,
a delta male, he’s all for change.
Some are the tethered, our bass is a pole,
from a Princetown rumble he’s on a roll.
Invert the pyramid each day,
carve relief into the urban decay.
Chimystère et boules de gomme, ceci est ce que nous sommes.
On ne se prend pas la tête, les jours se roulent et la vie est fête.
Whack those skins, slap the bass,
pound the keys, guitar givin’ chase.
King cake crumble French Quarter romp,
do the Congo Square zydecongo stomp.
The last by name, raised as pharaoh apparent,
rejected the legacy; see, it’s errant.
Finally done fleeing my royal birth
cuz every heart’s a beet pumping blood red earth.
The sea will split for those who dream,
who never forget we all live downstream.
In the wilderness we find
remaining a family just takes some time.

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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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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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