Ze Crip

So popsheep friend Ze Crip emailed me this song, and I need to share it. Here is what he had to say:

Attached is a song you might like. It's by Gasali Mates II String Band of the Mount Bosavi area of Papua New Guinea. The string bands that have emerged there over the past fifteen or so years have been influenced by church music, in which certain vocal harmonies are used and everyone is encouraged to sing as loud as possible; however, the musicians have clearly made many refinements and innovations (the half-step harmony in this piece, for instance, is unlike the popular worship music I know). If I remember correctly, it's not uncommon for a string band in the area to be led by a married couple of which the wife is the sister of the wife whose partnership leads the string band of the next village- or is it that the husbands of two bands are brothers who have exchanged wives? Anyway, what I am sure of is that the new music scene there must have some interesting politics.

Now if only The Gasali Mates II String band could have been perched on a rock as my friends and I enjoyed a day of bounding off a diving board someone ingeniously affixed to a 35 foot cliff face. To complete the Swiss family Robinson feeling of the "secret" spot there was a rope swing and giant hammock. I love Vancouver!

Gasali Mates II String Band - Really Hungry!