Music
Misery Marmalade and Other Spanish Jams
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Our second CD, released in summer 2010 and featuring Gus Warriner, Mike Park, Sophie Mackinder and Imogen Commander as Discover Artists. This album is mostly an acoustic affair of guitars and cellos, although we drift into reggae and rock towards the back half. We’re rather pleased with the fact that the first four songs have four different lead vocals, and that Sat Out the 15th is the first song we have produced to feature both beat boxing and a cello as the main instruments. And, of course, there’s Gus-who kicks off the album with his very own Fairy Tale.
Reviews
Their music can be labeled as poppy rock folk, with some forays into hip-hop and beatboxing. It may sound as “free-for-all” grab bag of songs at first, but all songs share the fun of a DIY approach that simmers through lick and chord. It’s like being invited to a mad tea party with music, with the musicians pulling rabbits out of their instruments.
Read the rest of the review at Here Comes the Flood.
Videos
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Song Information
| Fairy Tale | Lyrics | Outtakes Info |
| Immovable Thing | Lyrics | Outtakes Info |
| Big Old Bird | Lyrics | Outtakes Info |
| One in a Trillion | Lyrics | Outtakes Info |
| In Love | Lyrics | Outtakes Info |
| Mah Knees | Lyrics | Outtakes Info |
| Sat out the 15th | Lyrics | Outtakes Info |
| Box of Yellow Roses | Lyrics | Outtakes Info |
| Chamberlain in Munich | Lyrics | Outtakes Info |
| Another Day | Lyrics | Outtakes Info |
| The Only Thing That's Missing | Lyrics | Outtakes Info |
| She Knows | Lyrics | Outtakes Info |
| Invading London | Lyrics | Outtakes Info |
| Coins of Love | Lyrics | Outtakes Info |
This Week in the studio...
Immovable Thing: A New SMCC Video
Written by The Saturday Morning Canasta Club
Hot on the heals of If I Were a Little Birdie, Mah Knees and Monkey Space Camp, we are very proud to deliver our second ClingFilms production – the Video…Read more
Big Old Bird
Written by Andy Patterson
As a special ‘Tweet treat’ for the members of the Birds Nest, we have the original recording of “Big Old Bird”.
This Week in the Studio: 10.06.05
Written by Jimmy
It was meant to be a ‘liner notes’ day. But then our COO brought her fiddle.
This Week in the Studio. 10.05.22
Written by Jimmy
A disasterous overture, but Imp delivers and out of nowhere – a new song for our CD. Must have been the sunshine.
This Week in the The Studo: 10.05.13
Written by Jimmy
We suddenly turned political. Didn’t mean to, just needed a word that didn’t sound like a German command for ‘stretch your hamstrings!’
10.05.08 This Week in the Studio
Written by Jimmy
The Chipmunks take on Efatuation Nation — and Rob’s latin beats win out. And Sophie continues to cause trouble, while Andy’s comedian takes an interesting turn. This week in the…Read more
10.05.01 This Week in the Studio
Written by Jimmy
Bloody Mary’s & Sausages, Big Knees and Bigger Hangovers, The Real Thing, Ping Pong and a bit of rain — all in a day’s work at Abubilla Music.
This Week in the Studio: 10.04.17-18
Written by Jimmy
Ed’s pretends to go ballooning, Soph arrives hungover and uncensured, Steph meets the band, Mike arrives late, Martyn goes ‘walkin’, and Gus gives it all a miss and comes a…Read more
This Week in the Studio: 10.04.10
Written by Jimmy
Sophie loses it again (but at least waits for a song about a funeral), Ed in chord heaven without Andy to wind him in, and in Lou’s absence, Hannah takes…Read more
This Week in the Studio: 10.03.27
Written by Jimmy
Mikey brings even more class to ‘One in a Trillion’, while Gus puts down two of his songs and ‘fixes’ ‘Starin’ at My Shoes.’ And Mike does unspeakable things to…Read more
The Band are Really Scary
Written by Hannah
It’s last Saturday. So I’m sitting at my laptop, petting Lewie, maybe I was making tea, getting rid of Toby, something. Usual.
This Week in the Studio: 10.03.13
Written by Jimmy
Just send off the four mixes from today’s session, so time to tell to summarise the day, which was filled with the ‘Grand Return’ of Lou and Sophie to the…Read more
This Week in the Studio: 10.03.09 Gus and the Falling Bear…
Written by Jimmy
We have met the future of music.
This Week in the Studio: 10.03.06
Written by Jimmy
Car crashes, illness and Martyn singing into the wrong side of a mic – bad news comes in 3’s. Andy nails 1 in a trillion, Martyn sings like … Martyn,…Read more
This Week in the Studio: 10.02.27
Written by Jimmy
An appalling silence, bitter fights about B’s and V’s, Lou and Sat Out, a crash course in Abubilla, Assistants galore!, soggy puppies and then there was music – A Tribute…Read more
This Week in the Studio: 10.02.20
Written by Jimmy
Just two boys and two girls and two dogs and 1 cat and 713 doorbells…but we think we’ve cracked Invading London.
This Week in the Studio: 10.02.13
Written by Jimmy
Beat Boxing and a Def Leppard one armed drummer. A typical week…
This Week in the Studio: 10.02.06
Written by Jimmy
Inuendo’s disrupt Immovable Thing, Jimmy confirms the horror’s of Party Blaster, Rob shines on bass, The Studio gets an acoustic treatment and Andy finally gets to coil cables. All around…Read more
This Week in the Studio: 10.01.30
Written by Jimmy
Slashing seconds, polishing big knees, jammin’ in London, and fighting with flip — another day in the life of the London Studio at Abubilla Music.
This Week at the Studio: 10.01.23
Written by Jimmy
This was the closest we’ve come to achieving the full vision of Abubilla Music: Chaos, Creativity and Community (the 3 C’s!).
This Week in the Studio: 10.01.10
Written by Jimmy
Posting this on a binary day and discussing a binary studio day — nirvana. Not really, that would be quite sad. So here’s all the weird and wonderful that happened…Read more
This Week in the Studio: 09.12.30
Written by Jimmy
Believe it or not our band of warriors convened on the eve before the EVE for a full day in the studio. Fridges were emptied, drummers were floored, and Andy…Read more
This Week in the Studio: 09.12.12
Written by Jimmy
Decorating the Christmas Tree while invading London and complaining about publicising personality disorders? And bee cell splits the band!
Report Back from Winter 2009 Spanish Jam
Written by The Saturday Morning Canasta Club
Tough job but someone had to do it — we’ve returned from our Winter Spanish Jam with a finished 2009 CD, 4 new songs and a bunch of fragments to…Read more