“Pleasingly eccentric and imaginative alternative folk from the Highlands of Scotland” - Roddy Hart, BBC Radio Scotland

Possessed by the Gods of Cowbell Oblongata is The Ramisco Maki Maki Rocking Horse's 4th official release. 

As heard on Jim Gellatly (Amazing Radio), Tom Robinson's BBC Introducing Mixtape (BBC Radio 6 Music), The Roddy Hart Show (BBC Radio Scotland), Ralph's Indie Show / Ralph's TopTen (Radio Kaos Caribou), The Front Porch with Baylen Leonard(Amazing Radio) and The First 45 (Sine FM). 

The Ramisco Maki Maki Rocking Horse - Holy Barnacles

The Wolves

Wheel of Fortune

Official video 
https://youtu.be/MVxBSJlv8_I

This song was written in response to the changing mood in the UK and US in recent years in the climate of Trump and Boris. The refrain of ‘The crowd shouted louder than me’ suggests both that a lone voice of reason can be lost against the constant blare of sensationalist headlines, but also that if we add our voices together in solidarity we can cut through the noise.
Tom Jacob came on board to direct the video – a regular collaborator with Mesadorm, he and Sonya worked together on the Mesadorm video for ‘Tell Me’ which Sonya choreographed. The video for ‘Crowd’ pits lone, blindfolded Sonya against her richly-dressed self and her band. Is one of them controlling the other? Conjuring the other? Seducing the other? 
Who will win?

#SCxiamOTHER

Crowd

chewin teeth / shakey world

chewin teeth

Winds Of Sirocco

Clean version of the single - The Pendulum Swings

The Pendulum Swings - No Swears

The Loneliest Boy In The World

The Loneliest  Boy in the World

01 - The Loneliest Boy In The World

When I wrote this song
Autospell was on
But I didn’t know
So I carjacked onesie

I was going to write
About celebrities
In their mansion homes
With their big tea leaves

All the words they could use
Will never change what we do

All we ask is just be kind to us
All we ask is just be kind to us
And understand we all
Will lose

I've not made my bed
Cos they’re all tucked up
As their words deride 
We’ll just ride the tide

We’re not thriving now
Just surviving now
Cos what shapes our day
Are the words they say

All the words they could use
Will never change what we do

All we ask is just be kind to us
All we ask is just be kind to us
And understand we all
Will lose

Travelling around on our online existence highway
Purged of the words that can hurt if we’re seconds late

We’re just surviving in this
Broken world

Carjacked Onesie (played on BBC6 Music)

From the album "Until The Day" by Johnny Kowalski and the Sexy Weirdos available now via Bandcamp.
https://sexyweirdos.bandcamp.com/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/7GHo1yOkYyloEpGzHDGB3O
https://www.facebook.com/sexyweirdos/

Smug Song - Johnny Kowalski and the Sexy Weirdos

There the way is a quirky, succinct beats track with a relevant story of social media interaction.

There's the Way

The Ramisco Maki Maki Rocking Horse is an alternative indie folk artist, described as “rollocking americana” by Last Year’s Girl. The Horse resides in the Scottish Highlands, in a tiny village named Strathcarron. While primarily a solo artist, he also performs with a backing band called The Wat Wat Kings.

As a songwriter, The Horse is inspired by both real life subjects and subjects that exist solely in his mind. When he starts writing a song, he never really knows where it will end up, stating himself that “once you start, the songs just kind of write themselves”. Musically, he was brought up on bluegrass, country, blues and punk, spent his younger years between alternative rock and hip hop, and cites some of his influences today as Beck, Andrew Jackson Jihad and Hank Williams.

Live appearances have included a one-day nine-stop tour of Glasgow, UK with Tragic O’Hara, a roadside attraction tour in the US and several spontaneous pop-up shows spanning parts of the UK, Canada and Europe.

In Nov 2012, Ramisco was invited down to BBC Scotland to record a session for RAPAL TV. BBC Alba will air the session on April 25th. The track, Seas Air Do Chorra-Bhiod, was named RAPAL’s Gaelic Song of the Year 2013.

In Feb 2013, The Horse created a music video for Danger Danger with one of the Wat Wat Kings, Caliente, it was a no-budget effort, no film crew, just an unattended camcorder on a tripod and a mobile phone in a cereal bowl.

Releases to date include One Zero One Zero One Zero (2010), Fajita’s Basement (2011) and Squawk! (2013). Squawk! is perhaps the most recognised to date with airplay on BBC Radio Nan Gaidheal, The Waiting Room Radio Show (Houndstooth Radio, DIY Radio, Hoxton FM, Radio Andra, Radio Phoenix...), KA Radio, and several other stations, both national and international, prior to it’s release on March 4th, 2013.

On May 6, 2013, The Ramisco Maki Maki Rocking Horse will support The Boy Who Trapped The Sun at King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut in Glasgow, UK.

Previous to becoming The Horse, Ray McCartney was a founding member, songwriter, performer and producer of The Kazoo Funk Orchestra. He performed as Little Beard before leaving the collective for brain surgery only weeks after recording a performance for BBC Alba’s RAPAL TV show late 2008. Ray was also the founding member / songwriter and frontman of El Jugador until the band split in 2005.

The Ramisco Maki Maki Rocking Horse - Holy Barnacles

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