'Songs of Olde vol. 1’ from Gipsy Moon 2017, is an album of old-world traditional songs, ranging from Russian folk tunes, to American murder ballads, from Middle Eastern love songs, to irish Instrumentals. This album takes a journey through ancient songs of the past and relives them in mondern times. 

Gipsy Moon is
Mackenzie Page (vox, tenor banjo), 
Silas Herman (mandolin, octave mandolin), 
Matt Cantor (bass, guitar), 
Andrew Connley (cello),
Omar Al’Tbal (percussion). 

*Dont worry about the order that we are standing in.* 

Recorded, Enginereed, and Mixed by Todd Divel at Silo Sound Studio in Denver CO
Mastered by Jim _____ at _________
Cover artwork by Erik Solem
Produced by Gipsy Moon 2017
copright Gipsy Moon 2017 (this can all be in one line.

We’d like to thank Todd Divel, Hunt Frye, Jenny and Parker Otwell Roe, Sherry Wirtz, Jacob Ellis, Jake Wargo, Ashley Edwards, Vince Herman, and Kimba Stefane and all of our friends, fans and family. We are so grateful to you.

Clementine- Clementine is an American traditional folk ballad usually credited to Percy Montrose (1884.) but has been apart of American folk music and culture before then. It is a ballad about a lover loosing his darling during the California gold rush. 

Caravan- Caravan, a jazz standard composed by Juan Tizol and Duke Ellington, was first performed by Ellington in 1936. Irving Mills wrote the lyrics.The first version of the song was recorded in Hollywood in 1936, as an instrumental by Barney Bigard and his Jazzopaters. 

Dark Eyes- a Russian romance song with lyrics written by Ukrainian poet Yevhen Hrebinka, first published in 1843. It is known as a gypsy romance cabaret song based on the origional melody of Florian Hermann's Valse Hommage. The most renowned and played version of this song was written by Adalgiso Ferraris, and published, in Russia, in 1910.

Banish Misfortune- Banish Misfortune is said to have first been published in the book “Ancient Irish Music” by P.W. Joyce under the title ‘The Bag of Meal” in 1873. The song is also said to have played an apotropaic role in Irish culture, supposedly having the power to avert bad luck or evil intentions, and was played when misfortune struck. 

Misrilou- is a traditional song from the Eastern Mediterranean region, and the earliest known recording of the song is from 1927. There are also traditional Arabic, Jewish klezmer, Armenian, Persian and Turkish versions of the song. It gained worldwide popularity through Dick Dale's 1962 American surf rock version, originally titled “Miserlou".

St. Jane’s - The song St. Jane’s was crafted from the tune St. Anne’s Reel, a tune who’s birthplace is still debated today. Some claim it is an old Irish Reel, some a contradance tune, others claim that it is an American old-time tune, and some even say that it dates back to the Renaissance. There is also a claim that the tune was named after a Miracle-worker St. Anne the Mother of Mary. We’ve recorded it in a minor key and added lyrics.

Uskadara-  or Kâtibim, is a Turkish folk song about a woman and her servant traveling to Üsküdar, a large district of Istambul, Turkey. The tune is a famous Istanbul türkü. Many versions of the song can be found in countries neighboring Turkey, usually with entirely different lyrics. The song was made famous in the US in 1953  by Eartha Kitt, also recorded by Eydie Gormé.

Gary Owen- Gary Owen is an old Irish quick-step that can be traced back to the early 1860’s known for its popularity during the Civil War. The origional tune is a jig in 6/8 while we have chosen to play it in common time.

Que Sera Sera- first published in 1956, is a popular song written by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans. The song was introduced in the Alfred Hitchcock film The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), starring Doris Day and James Stewart in the lead roles. The orgion of the saying is unknown but attributed to both Spanish and Italian histories.

Songs Of Olde Vol I

Gary Owen

When I discovered there was going to be a total solar eclipse in North America on August 21, I was miserable. Months before, I had planned a trip to Europe, and my flight to London was leaving on that same day. The day before my trip, after much agonizing, I decided instead of going on my flight, I would drive 743 miles from New York to South Carolina with my roommate, to witness the total solar eclipse. I’m not the kind of person who abandon well-laid plans, especially ones that involve hundreds of dollars of nonrefundable airfare, so this was completely out of character for me. But when I asked myself, “Can I wait 7 years to witness another total solar eclipse?” The answer was no. But really, was it worth it?

The Great American Eclipse

Produced by:
Kyle Nethersole https://soundcloud.com/kylenethersole
Aaron Rambhajan https://soundcloud.com/rambhajan
Irwan Poerba

Written by:
Ria

Lyrics:
All time low
Waiting on this day to end
It's been a minute
It's, it's been a minute
Change after change
Fake it ’til you make it
I feel them coming
I, I feel them coming

Everywhere that I go
I don’t want to be alone
'Cause I’m scared of myself 
Everywhere that I go
I don’t want to be alone
'Cause I’m scared of myself 

All my friends are on planes
But I’m right here
All my friends are on planes
But I’m right here

Do you know that I’ve been 
Up and down in my head
Rolling round in my bed
Because I don’t know what to do 
With myself
And I’ve been running round
In circles in this town
Because I don’t know what to do 
With myself

Everywhere that I go
I don’t want to be alone
'Cause I’m scared of myself 
Everywhere that I go
I don’t want to be alone
'Cause I’m scared of myself 

All my friends are on planes
But I’m right here

Planes

"Somehow in the last three weeks I transformed myself from a badass world-by-bike traveling radio producer into a bored southern housewife."

Jackie's New Normal: KCRW Radio Race

In a world shaped by loss and unspoken love, one woman changes the course of her family’s emotional reality with three simple words.

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This piece was produced by Hannah Beal, Stephanie Cohn, Caroline Hadilaksono, Marissa Schneiderman and Kaitlyn Schwalje as part of The 24-Hour Radio Race from KCRW's Independent Producer Project. Music written and recorded by Marissa Schneiderman and Diva.

I Love You, Sis

7.17.19. 
A gift of an assignment from Amanda Palmer, in response to this past weekend's power outage in NYC, and a resulting nyt article. 
Made me think of walking through the hot city, and in turn Salinger's "Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters" characters Seymour and Buddy Glass.

Born In A Blackout_demo.WAV

The lights recently went out in New York on the West side. Thinking back to my time living in Brooklyn, t made me wish I was there to have experienced it. And so through the song, I live out my phantom night

The Night The Spirits Took Over

Entered into Amanda Palmer's song writing contest. Inspired by a news article about the NYC blackout on July 13, 2019

Sidewalk Serenade

Designer/Illustrator. Makes pictures, books, & science apps. Loves radio.

The Great American Eclipse

Caroline Hadilaksono

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