A nose-less tengu in Tsuchiura

Adelabu Oluwafemi Samuel with The TenGooz in Tsukuba

New TenGooz Album: LET IT GO released- Listen to it for free on Jamendo

The LONG wait is finally over- and all for a mere four songs!
Sorry, but its been a long hard, surgery, earthquake, house-moving,
picking up the pieces type of year.
Still we dont think you will be disappointed ( at least we HOPE not)!

On the first and third tracks we have beside Thomas, HaseG and myself- Julien on sax, and Mario on keyboards.

The last track- Oh, Yeah - is an old live recording we did with Jon Hicks on drums, Sagara Kenya on trombone, and Fumi Tanaka on guitar ( with HaseG and me, as well).

Have a listen and tell us what you think

You will find LET IT GO here:

http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/101825

Thomas and Takumi after completing the mix down for Youve Got to Let it Go

A Satisfied Thomas Mayers after finishing up a TenGooz recording session

Hase G and Takumi putting the final touches on the new TenGooz CD

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Rabbits on the grounds of the River House in Hojo Tsukuba

The River House - Avi's New Digs

HaseG All Tired Out After Clearing Out The Ice Palace

HaseG recording some Flamenco bass at Studio J

Mickey doing sound at a TenGooz gig

Beloved Long-Time TenGooz Soundman Mickey

Takeshita-Dori on a drizzly day

Little TenGooz on the beach in New York

Lyrics to new TenGooz song- NO PLACE TO CALL HOME

As I have already reported, Hase G dropped by my place ( affectionately known as The Ice Palace),
with his bass and effect board and started improvising. The mood, as we sat amid the post-earthquake mess
was somber- or should I say solemn.

Anyway, we came up with a song (we have already recorded it in studio) for which I have written these lyrics.

No Place to Call Home

By HaseG and Avi Landau

I heard it comin`
first as a hummin`
Then like bass-strings strummin`
and now I dont have a place to call home

After that rumblin`
things started tumblin`
Now Im sittin` mumblin`
cause I dont have a place to call home

But no- you wont hear me cryin`
you wont find me poundin` on the floor
Guess I`ll pack up my ol` suitcase
and put my nameplate up on some new door

That night was freezin`
dust had us wheezin`
Those stars weren`t even pleasin`
now that I dont have a place to call home

No time for weepin`
with all that needed sweepin`
So few thinks left worth keepin`
and I dont have a place to call home

But no- you wont hear me gripin`
you wont hear me poundin` on the floor
Guess I think of myself lucky
compared to those who live nearby the shore

It all happened in a blinkin`
and it got me to start thinkin`
but I still aint got no inklin`
and I dont have a place to call home

Want our children growin`
dont want `em glowin`
Guess we should be goin`
and we dont have a place to call home

But its not easy leavin`
with all the memories and all I know
but those things will live inside me
and I`ll take them with me everywhere I go

(c) 2011

New TenGooz Song? on Utube

Just about every time the Tengooz get together we come up with
new material.
I had been in New York for a week and had just gotten back to my eathquake damaged place in Tsukuba when HaseG,
The TenGooz singular bassist, popped over with his bass and synthesizers.

Sitting among the boxes and debris ( you can see the tv and computer on the floor so that that dont get thrown around by aftershocks),

G started to by something reminiscent of folk blues- on his bass!

I improvised a melody ( and some embarrassingly half-baked lyrics) with which we felt we captured the mood of these times- grim, yet hopefull.

We had a video recorder running, so you can hear the new piece, which will of course be transformed into something better ( especially lyrically),when we effectually record it in earnest.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REzM-mUg0Hg&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

The joint is jumping during a TenGooz gig

The joint is jumpin during a TenGooz gig Down Under

Jon Hicks and Avi Landau of The TenGooz