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right time to smile

from first steps by bushytunes

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Here we have a couple of ukuleles with wobbly, feathery effects and a supporting family of percussive sounds.

The lyrical idea here was to celebrate the humble ukulele - a semi-improvised vocal bounced out of my subconscious to reveal the ukulele’s fetishist qualities, imbued with magical powers, a talisman for creating smiles, a tool to defeat communism, a threat to capitalist values, and a way to get yourself slung into clink for the night.

Three slightly anarchic vocals here; I expect this is how we might sound if I’d been a triplet instead of a onelet, single babything, you know: onelet? Omelette. Omelette? Anyone fancy an omelette? Now, where did I put my pills...

I really like the feel of the ukuleles and vocals having fun together with the swishy loop sounds cavorting about in the mix. Splendid.

Does this one make you want to rush out and buy a ukulele?
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lyrics

When opportunities present themselves
Never look at them in the gift horse mouth

So here’s my opportunity
To sing along with two ukuleles
Phased and flanged as you can hear
Get yourself a ukulele

It’s the right time to smile
And it’s the right time to smile
And it’s the right time to smile
And it’s the right time to smile

Armed with only a ukulele
You can hold back from communist hordes
Just play your chords
Just play your chords

And it’s the right time to smile...

I have waved my ukulele
At a capitalist bigwig
Bigwig said, “you are quite crazy”
Then I said he was a fat pig

Didn’t really mean to be
So horrible to him
Now I’m in this prison cell
They said they’ll let me out tomorrow

And it’s the right time to smile...
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from first steps, track released April 25, 2013

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Once upon a time there was a crazy idea: to create, record and upload a musical track every day for a year. And the idea floated round and round the planet, looking for a place to call home. After a long time of searching and wishing and watching, the idea chose to make a nest in the brain of a bushy fellow, coming to his aid and guiding him out of the doldrums, back to a magical pathway... ... more

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