i've listed all the lyrics on my bandcamp (runo plum)

these were written throughout the spring / summer of 2020 and recorded in my bedroom from jan-march of 2021 

<3 thank u for listening <3

yin to yang

Captain Martina's Journal Entry from "The Tales of King Kogi" 👑🐷

King Kogi’s airship was caught up in a large gust of warm wind.  It was quite a peculiar feeling, your hair being whipped upwards and downwards, this way and that way, like a jellyfish bobbing on your head.  The warmer the wind, the higher up the ship was lifted. Bobbing further up, up, and above the towering purple rain clouds, the crew was still able to breathe with ease. King Kogi protected the ship daily with various scientific spells and charms.  A few crew members were pointing excitedly from the upper deck.  It was a rare sight indeed: several glittering Cloudbunny nests, tucked on the top of the mint clouds. A small Cloudbunny floated over and perched on the ships’ railing closest to me. It was nearly invisible to the eye, its wispy fur blending in with the colours and textures of the pink and mint clouds behind it. The clouds below were nearly out of rain, so the airship began to descend and with that, the Cloudbunny was gone.

Mint

floating to heaven

The selection of music for this album is similar to two sets of a live performance. Dale's guitar introduces each disc with the stylistic statement of the bands identity and leads on to a charismatic mix of melodies and moods.
Minor Swing, HCQ strut, Swing 42 and Tears are all Django Reinhardt tunes. Swing 42 features Zoe on clarinet with the strings. On Chasing Shadows and Tears John plays trumpet with the strings and sings. The string section do their own stuff on Lover Come Back to Me(john Whitlock featuring on banjo, Man of Mystery (Dale leads with John and Pete)and My One and Only Love  - (a feature for Pete on bass accompanied by Dale).
Zoe sings on I'll Never Say 'Never Again' Again, Get Out and Get Under the Moon and Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea. Get Acquainted with Yourself is a bit of nonsense recorded by Willie the Lion Smith in 1937, John takes the vocal and also sings on Seul Ce Soir in French and on the Louise Jordan favourite Choo Choo ch'Boogie. Avalon, Sweet Georgia Brown, J'attendrai, China Boy and Sidney Bechet's Pattes de Mouch all feature the entire ensemble.

For contact details email:
riviera.ramblers@gmail.com

Get Aquainted with the Riviera Ramblers CD1

I'll Never Say Never Again

Same track as Big Bad Handsome Man, but at 160bpm.
Recorded at multiple locations across Cornwall during May 2020 whilst under lockdown.

Featuring; Lucy Ward, Dan Hughes, Paolo Donaldson, and Isaac Plays Bass ;)

Lockdown in Swing Town

Big Bad Handsome Man - 160bpm

Captain Martina's Journal Entry from "The Tales of King Kogi" 👑🐷

King Kogi's airship bounced gently through the night sky.  Watching from the balcony of his castle, the clouds around him were piled up high in soft fluffy mounds of pastel pink and blue. Soundlessly, the ship drifted through the middle of a large cloud.  The air around him turned hazy and pink. Tiny beads of moisture began to form on the railings and on the deck of the ship below. The patch of grass outside his castle was covered in dew drops.  As the strange airship emerged from the cloud, the moon became clear in the night sky once again.  The droplets caught the light and for a moment, tiny rainbow dots sparkled and glittered all over the ship. King Kogi smiled at the beautiful sight before him.  Lapan was truly a beautiful and magical land. The airship picked up speed and the tiny droplets disappeared in the breeze.

The Airship

Captain Martina's Journal Entry from "The Tales of King Kogi" 👑🐷

It was a gorgeous evening aboard the airship.  The starlight was glittering like flecks of rainbow as it filtered through the holographic balloon suspended above me.  The soft paper lanterns strung all over the ship were at full brightness tonight. The moon was huge and clear, casting enough moonlight to fully charge the lunar batteries on King Kogi’s airship.  The unusual airship was powered via lunar and solar energy, and it was propelled along by the wind currents.  The airship blew this way, and drifted that way.  When we needed to dock for supplies, we had the means to steer, but it was written in The Code of King Kogi to drift on the wind-currents until we spotted a new village, town, or region to visit. 

The sky had faded from pastel lavender to blue.  Last week, while refilling at Creamberry Docking Station, I met some excited tourists.  They were enjoying a local favourite: deep-fried waffles filed with wild Creamberry fluff, and were marveling at our gradient skies.  A pastel sunset is a common sight to behold within the land of Lapan, but it served as a good reminder to appreciate all that is around me.  

Last week we met two locals while drifting.  Bear and Bunny were on their way home from an adventure in space.  King Kogi granted them docking privileges and the crew helped tether their rocket ship to our much larger airship.  King Kogi greeted them and exchanged a few records he had picked up in Big Love City for a dozen jars of super rare homemade Stardrop Jam.  He shared it with the crew during breakfast, and I ate it on toasted bread and butter.  It was absolutely scrumptious.

Big Bad Handsome Man - 160bpm

Isaac Plays Bass

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