Evening folks,
Welcome to our weekly blog update. Another jolly night on Wednesday. We continued with our excursion through the canon of Estonia's favourite import. We really are beginning to develop a liking for this Tormis stuff. One particularly fun new piece is Kanarbik (Estonian for 'heather' don't you know). Though you would imagine a piece called 'heather' to be a peaceful celebration of the delights of the Scottish countryside, it is actually quite a dramatic piece about the "sad purple heatherbell" that "frantically blazes". Exciting stuff! Ollie threatened that if the basses didn't sing the solo line nicely then he would sing it as he does it particularly well. Fortunately our warrior lower line rose to the challenge so that particular Tenor v Bass battle was assuaged.
We also began a fun song about a frog that was eaten by a crow. In Rudsambee songs the frog (or rather any amphibious or is it reptilian creature) never does very well (cf the Pudduck). This is no exception - one day the small slimy (actually they aren't slimy at all) animals will take over the world and those who have suppressed them for years will have only themselves to blame. Anyways, I am particularly chuffed with this one as it contains five or six key changes. Yey! I love a good key change. My top is always Genesis 'Invisible Touch' which is seriously brilliant. You can feel it coming for about half an hour... rather like a burp actually. Apologies for the analogy. So '80s pop music hits Rudsambee... or maybe not.
Hope everyone is having a great week.
CSW
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