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Owiny Sigoma Band — Harpoon Land
Album: Power Punch
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6.7

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Released: 2013
Length: 2:49
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Get back, talk in broken language
Step right, down in this harpoon land
Tongue tied, words are unspoken
Let love

We haven't done much
But there's a lot going on
Sounds travel down a bloodline
Spirits live through the song

Get back, talk in broken language
Step right, down in this harpoon land
Tongue tied, words are unspoken
Let love

Get back, talk in broken language
Step right, down in this harpoon land
Tongue tied, words are unspoken
Let love

Hear the voices on the eight strings
Feel it breathing from the drums
Sounds travel down a bloodline
Spirits live through the song

This harpoon land
This harpoon land

Get back, talk in broken language
Step right, down in this harpoon land
Tongue tied, words are unspoken
Let love

Get back, talk in broken language
Step right, down in this harpoon land
Tongue tied, words are unspoken
Let love
Comments (70)add comment
I thought this was Grand National.
Nice groove.
Posted 1 month ago by sajitjacob    [ Reply ]
Let the chair dancing begin!
Posted 1 year ago by jmkate    [ Reply ]
 ce wrote:


Bangin' on the bongos like a chimpanzee


That ain't working
Posted 1 year ago by Euskadita    [ Reply ]
Yeah, anything that has me bobbing my head and tapping my foot deserves better than a 7. My Big Spender here: 7 -> 8. Good fun, this. Happy Friday, all. :)
Posted 2 years ago by talexb    [ Reply ]
Ha! I don't know - I thought it was Beck!
Good song!
Posted 2 years ago by MayBaby    [ Reply ]
Found at:  https://www.huckmag.com/art-an...
Owiny Sigoma is a unique collaboration between two Kenyans: nyatiti master Joseph Nyamungu and Luo percussionist Charles Owoko (who tragically passed away after the band’s journey to Kenya); and three London-based musicians: Tom Skinner on drums, Jesse Hackett on vox/keys and his brother Louis Hackett on bass. Coming together across cultural, language and generational barriers, their music fuses rhythms, sounds and approaches from Kenya and the UK with a raw and organic flavour.
Posted 3 years ago by kenmo    [ Reply ]
 ce wrote:


Bangin' on the bongos like a chimpanzee


oh that ain't workin'  thats the way you do it
Posted 3 years ago by B4D3neaker3    [ Reply ]
cool tune, makes me think of tv on the radio Posted 6 months ago by lynn01 Sameness!
Posted 3 years ago by RoaringMouse    [ Reply ]
This would get me on the dance floor! Hopefully not by myself... 
Posted 3 years ago by Ok_Sobriquet    [ Reply ]
I sense some Damon Albarn here...  ?
Posted 3 years ago by bseib    [ Reply ]
Could be Beck
Posted 4 years ago by Aaronosteo    [ Reply ]
cool tune, makes me think of tv on the radio
Posted 4 years ago by lynn01    [ Reply ]
I would've bet money this was Peter Gabriel singing
Posted 4 years ago by tlbritton    [ Reply ]
 On_The_Beach wrote:
What's that, Hawaiian noises?
 
 
 

Bangin' on the bongos like a chimpanzee
Posted 5 years ago by ce    [ Reply ]
 dubberdan wrote:
got me jiggling while making coffee
 

As one often does. 
Posted 5 years ago by Ahnyer_Keester    [ Reply ]
 ziggytrix wrote:

Really reminds me of I Zimbra.
 Ditto!

Posted 5 years ago by khardog145    [ Reply ]
Posted 5 years ago by jp33442    [ Reply ]
groovy little tune. got me jiggling while making coffee
Posted 5 years ago by dubberdan    [ Reply ]
 coloradojohn wrote:
Reminds me of how Talking Heads really blew us away with these funky rhythms, especially I Zimbra and the album Naked. Jam stuff!

 
Really reminds me of I Zimbra.
Posted 6 years ago by ziggytrix    [ Reply ]
What's that, Hawaiian noises?
 
 
Posted 6 years ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]
{#Hearteyes}
Posted 6 years ago by Azrica    [ Reply ]
What a great song... says it all...

Get back, talk in broken language
Step right, down in this harpoon land
Tongue tied, words are unspoken
Let love

Get back, talk in broken language
Step right, down in this harpoon land
Tongue tied, words are unspoken
Let love
Posted 6 years ago by boltonblue242    [ Reply ]

Get back, talk in broken language
Step right, down in this harpoon land
Tongue tied, words are unspoken
Let love

We haven't done much
But there's a lot going on
Sounds travel down a bloodline
Spirits live through the song

Get back, talk in broken language
Step right, down in this harpoon land
Tongue tied, words are unspoken
Let love

Get back, talk in broken language
Step right, down in this harpoon land
Tongue tied, words are unspoken
Let love

Hear the voices on the eight strings
Feel it breathing from the drums
Sounds travel down a bloodline
Spirits live through the song

This harpoon land
This harpoon land

 

Get back, talk in broken language
Step right, down in this harpoon land
Tongue tied, words are unspoken
Let love

Get back, talk in broken language
Step right, down in this harpoon land
Tongue tied, words are unspoken
Let love

Posted 6 years ago by voidPortal    [ Reply ]
{#Bananajam}{#Dancingbanana_2}{#Clap}{#Bananasplit}{#Bananajumprope}{#Dancingbanana}{#Dance}
Posted 6 years ago by nancynancy    [ Reply ]
 ziggytrix wrote:
Vocals sound quite like TV On the Radio to me.

 
Indeed! I thought it might be new TV on the Radio, so I clicked through to check. 

(ETA: OK, so this song is five years old...this is the first time I've noticed it!)
Posted 6 years ago by AliGator    [ Reply ]
Vocals sound quite like TV On the Radio to me.
Posted 6 years ago by ziggytrix    [ Reply ]
{#Dancingbanana_2}{#Bananasplit}{#Sunny}{#Bananajumprope}{#Dancingbanana} Let's dance !!! Good mood and energy levels full {#Music}
Posted 6 years ago by ChrisVIII    [ Reply ]
TomTomClub hommage?
Posted 7 years ago by Castelfranco    [ Reply ]
{#Music}     {#Dancingbanana_2}{#Dancingbanana_2}{#Dancingbanana_2}
Posted 7 years ago by sunflowerbee    [ Reply ]
 cShaggy wrote:
..i'm not grokking it..may improve with the next go-'round?..
 
"Thou art God!"
Posted 7 years ago by Solanus    [ Reply ]
I bee feel'in eet!!

groovy GIF
Posted 7 years ago by Faithful_Fool    [ Reply ]
a 10 from the Floridian chairdancer.
Posted 7 years ago by jmkate    [ Reply ]
Surprising, same as a new song by Peter Gabriel could have been some 20 years ago
Posted 7 years ago by Carlo9151    [ Reply ]
Reminds me of how Talking Heads really blew us away with these funky rhythms, especially I Zimbra and the album Naked. Jam stuff!
Posted 8 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
I usually don't fancy african rythms, but this one hits a soft spot!
Posted 8 years ago by Gijåm    [ Reply ]
Very cool tune. Be dancin'.
Posted 8 years ago by WonderLizard    [ Reply ]
                       Slipstream

                 I'd  be in St. Tropez
                  And you'd tease
Posted 8 years ago by twoplain2sea    [ Reply ]
 ziakut wrote:

Fair enough. I'm being a bit dramatic...but I see it as an opportunity lost. Decent groove with a very disappointing attempt at album art. How's that?

 
Makes sense; it is disappointing and/or annoying when recording artists don't bother having decent cover art.
Posted 9 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
 ziakut wrote:

Fair enough. I'm being a bit dramatic...but I see it as an opportunity lost. Decent groove with a very disappointing attempt at album art. How's that?

 
Wasn't that the point ?
Posted 9 years ago by CaffeineSam    [ Reply ]
 Proclivities wrote:

I'm not sure I'd consider that cover art "deplorable" - but it does look like something made by a high-school kid in the 1970s with a sheet of Letraset and a dull X-Acto knife.  Not a bad tune, though.

 
Fair enough. I'm being a bit dramatic...but I see it as an opportunity lost. Decent groove with a very disappointing attempt at album art. How's that?
Posted 9 years ago by ziakut    [ Reply ]
You don't want me to work tonight, do you? Too many tunes that aren't content simply to stay in the background!
Posted 10 years ago by 2020sk    [ Reply ]
Loving the bass, but not the twanging random stuff over the top of it all 
Posted 10 years ago by MrsTom    [ Reply ]
I know it's already been mentioned, but this sounds ridiculously similar to a bunch of tracks by Grand National...
Posted 10 years ago by toomanyollys    [ Reply ]
Not a fan.  Just can't get past the cover.
Posted 10 years ago by DaidyBoy    [ Reply ]
Never heard this Owiny tune... 2013? I think I need this album! 
Posted 10 years ago by afrixluvguy    [ Reply ]
wow - I never read the Belgian bit. Great song!
 
unclehud wrote:

Harpoon Land = Boston




     Harpoon Land = Boston



 


Posted 10 years ago by RandomousJam    [ Reply ]
Had the great pleasure to work, live and play in the greater Boston area for nearly all of 2009.  Memories I will cherish forever.  

unclehud wrote:

Harpoon Land = Boston




     Harpoon Land = Boston



 


Posted 10 years ago by MojoJojo    [ Reply ]
Like it - reminds me of Gorrilaz
Posted 10 years ago by arserocket    [ Reply ]
 unclehud wrote:

Harpoon Land = Boston




     Harpoon Land = Boston



 


Love Harpoon Ale.  This song, not so much.
Posted 10 years ago by ladybinnath    [ Reply ]
 Quite a comedown after Paco De Lucia and John Martyn
Posted 10 years ago by bokey    [ Reply ]
"Please allow me to introduce myself ..."

The first 10 seconds of that beat just remind me of sympathy for the devil by the stones :)
Posted 11 years ago by bb_matt    [ Reply ]
 pinto wrote:

Sounds like the guitarist wants to be Jerry Garcia and the bassist never got out of the disco era.

 
Garcia? I cannot get this, no matter how much I imagine it. The sound is African to my ears.
Posted 11 years ago by bam23    [ Reply ]
Is Harpoon Land close to Stake Land? {#Cheesygrin}

Anyway, nice groove!
Posted 11 years ago by wossName    [ Reply ]
first 20 seconds are exquisite ... 
Posted 11 years ago by hayduke2    [ Reply ]
 mcleandesign wrote:
Reminds me of earlier David Byrne......

 
I kept expecting Nothing but Flowers to start
Posted 11 years ago by Decoy    [ Reply ]
Shades of the Police and Grand National. Like it!
Posted 11 years ago by sajitjacob    [ Reply ]
Cool groove, for sure -- lots of things come to mind; African rhythms, haunting vocal styles, funky bass, trippy guitar adornments and rips!
Posted 11 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
New stuff!   Love it!  Keep it coming!
Posted 11 years ago by rdo    [ Reply ]
..i'm not grokking it..may improve with the next go-'round?..
Posted 11 years ago by cShaggy    [ Reply ]
Reminds me of earlier David Byrne......
Posted 11 years ago by mcleandesign    [ Reply ]
 1wolfy wrote:
they say this cat Shaft is a bad mother f#%#%

 
{#Lol}
Posted 11 years ago by linden    [ Reply ]
 CrackerjaxATX wrote:
i dig it...8. i'm a sucker for multiple percussion types
 
Sounds like the guitarist wants to be Jerry Garcia and the bassist never got out of the disco era.
Posted 11 years ago by pinto    [ Reply ]
i dig it...8. i'm a sucker for multiple percussion types
Posted 11 years ago by CrackerjaxATX    [ Reply ]
they say this cat Shaft is a bad mother f#%#%
Posted 11 years ago by 1wolfy    [ Reply ]
Jezz, I usually have trouble turning you guys off but not today. Three losers in a row. And the next aint promising. See ya tomorrow.
Posted 11 years ago by GeorgeMWoods    [ Reply ]
 ziakut wrote:
Kinda like the music. I think the cover art is deplorable.

 
I'm not sure I'd consider that cover art "deplorable" - but it does look like something made by a high-school kid in the 1970s with a sheet of Letraset and a dull X-Acto knife.  Not a bad tune, though.
Posted 11 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
Kinda like the music. I think the cover art is deplorable.
Posted 11 years ago by ziakut    [ Reply ]
...hey, more owiny sigoma band!..
Posted 11 years ago by mandolin    [ Reply ]
{#Think} thought it would be energetic but fall asleepe.
Posted 11 years ago by PaoloManana    [ Reply ]
Funky name —- kinda whiny guitars
Posted 11 years ago by the_jake    [ Reply ]