Chumba Wumba

[Nou Dadoun]

[I tried sending this out once (along with another article about
Dudu Pukwana which I assume disappeared into the ether) but here goes again:]

Ok you Brits listen up (Andrew Farmer, this means you), I heard a Brave New
Waves profile on a group called Chumba Wumba the other night. Their music
ranged from acappella political folk to some (slightly sampled) hot
funk that I haven't been able to get out of my head for the last week.
The album they featured (I just caught the tail end of it) was something
called Snap! (punctuation mine, it's hard to see it on the radio).
I think the tune I've been infected with is the title track but they also
played one called Tianamen Square.

Any info on these folks?

------------------------------------------------------------------> Nou

"Yes but what do you think of Boney M's Christmas album?"

[burma shave]

dad...@cs.ubc.ca (Nou Dadoun) writes:
>Ok you Brits listen up (Andrew Farmer, this means you), I heard a Brave New
>Waves profile on a group called Chumba Wumba the other night. Their music
>ranged from acappella political folk to some (slightly sampled) hot
>funk that I haven't been able to get out of my head for the last week.
>The album they featured (I just caught the tail end of it) was something
>called Snap! (punctuation mine, it's hard to see it on the radio).
>I think the tune I've been infected with is the title track but they also
>played one called Tianamen Square.

How about a partial answer from California? :-)

The band name is one word, Chumbawamba, and their latest LP
is called Slap! (ya got the punctuation right :-) and is on
Agitprop records. An excellent LP!!! My favorite song is
"That's how grateful we are."

They are a DIY band in the Crass, Ex tradition and have been
around for at least ten years (I vaguely remember seeing
them on the Elephant Table compilation which was released
in the very late 70s). They seem to be pretty well known in
the punk and industrial 'scenes' even though their music is
more eclectic than the stereotypes of the two genres.

Also, as Nou mentioned, all of their work is political.

Anyone have more info? I would imagine a discography might
be hard to create...any takers???
(kinda like, "boy this cheese tastes bad...try it")

mike rizzi
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[burma shave]

Michael Wertheim writes:
>In article <22...@mas1.UUCP> ri...@mas1.UUCP (burma shave) writes:
>[about Chumbawumba]

>> They are a DIY band in the Crass, Ex tradition and have been
>> around for at least ten years (I vaguely remember seeing
>> them on the Elephant Table compilation which was released
>> in the very late 70s).

>They're not on my copy of the Elephant Table album. You're probably thinking
>of a similar compilation. I always get them confused.

Yeah...me too! Looking at my ET comp, it seems I was
thinking of "Bourbonese Qualk"...am honest mistake,
their names are soo similiar. :-)

rizzi

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