"O, Greenland!"(OE020)
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1. On Icy Ground 1:42
2. Nuyak, The Greenland Farmstress 2:08
3. Greenland Evenings 1:37
4. Kalaallit Nunaat 3:33
5. Seal Bladders 3:26
6. Happy Kwanzaa To All (Eskimo Bludgeoning Song) 2:29
7. Baby Coming 1:40
8. Godthab Bakery 1:32
9. Whale Hunt Song Of Greenland 3:27
10. Greenland 2:11
11. Anaikalak 1:28
12. Godthab Fish Factory 3:04
13. Upernavik 555 1:55
Mike!-all instruments and voices
now how about some reviews!
Mike! / O, Greenland / Orange Entropy (CD)
The graphics are great, the name Mike! is great, and the idea -- a concept album about Greenland -- is a long time coming, to say the least. Mike!'s intent is not to educate listeners about Greenland's fish factories ("Godthab Fish Factory") or the country's race relations ("Happy Kwanzaa to All: the Eskimo Bludgeoning Song"), but to keep us entertained and laughing. On the "funny" meter, the album's best moments -- "Did you bludgeon an eskimo today?"; "Oh ho I can hear the Eskimos barfing" -- are as crude as Zappa could be, and won't appeal to all. It's Mike!'s Beefheart-Over-Ice music that'll more consistently win you over. The sound of whales (being hunted) is almost chilling when plotted against Mike's squeaky voice, while his warbling, squeegee guitar tunes attach to you like some wintry plague. As a bizarre record, it's surely of the "intentional" variety, the way Attack of the Killer Tomatoes was an intentionally bad movie. However, like that film, it's quite memorable and fun, with an originality that's hard not to appreciate. -- td
Mike - O' Greenland——A concept album about Greenland, but don't expect the pomposity that's normally associated with concept
albums. This is a very lo-budget affair, weird messy songs with acoustic guitar and cheap sounding keyboard, that sounds as though it
was probably recorded on a Walkman. Greenland Evenings is a not bad instrumental but the rest is just too weird and sounds like he's
just having a laugh - all odd put-on voices, bad taste humour and so on. Seal Bladders is actually quite catchy, but its questionable
whether I'd actually want this song running round my head. Definitely not recommended for people who take music seriously.—Kim
Harten(Aquamarine)
MIKE! - O, GREENLAND!........ Coming out of the US, Mike!'s music is certainly unique, with a very lo-fi feel to the sound overall &
one of the most unusual high falsetto singing voices I think I've ever heard. While there are cited influences of Abba, The Beach Boys &
others, you'll be hard pressed to hear any of those here.
Across the album, Mike! plays a variety of unusual instruments, in equally strange & interesting ways, fronting over the top with that
vocal technique. I'm unsure just where Mike! is heading with all this, but if you like experimentation in your music, then this will be for
you. (Terry Allen, hEARd)
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