Hearts & Minds & Crooked Beats on vinyl! Mastered by the legendary Ted Jensen. Album artwork by Jeff Langevin.
Includes unlimited streaming of Songs of The Clash - Hearts & Minds & Crooked Beats
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Teke::Teke’s interpretation of the song Bankrobber was inspired by a sound that was developing in Japan in the 70’s, in parallel to the UK’s punk scene, with avant-garde bands like Tokyo Kid Brothers or JA Seazer, which had them wanting to keep the lyrics in Japanese.
Teke Teke's singer Maya Kuroki felt an immediate connection to Bankrobber, upon hearing the same words that her late father used to jokingly say, “someday i’ll become a bank robber;” she wanted to represent the meaning of this poem as the voice of the “community,” striving to counter the increasingly widening wealth gap.
“Bankrobber was the first ever song I heard from the Clash, it was on a compilation tape a dear friend of mine had made for me in my early 20’s, … The Clash went on to become one of my favorite and most-inspiring rock bands of all-time, way beyond their musical genius but also for their political stances and DIY approach…”
That "dear friend" was Malcolm Bauld, who Sei enlisted to guest vocal on Teke Teke's cover, providing the english verses...a profound collaboration and full circle moment.
lyrics
親父はbank robber
誰も傷付けない
ただそれが好きなだけ
あんたたちの金を盗る
ちょーリッチとちょー貧乏
そんな世の中
でも運がないだけって
わかったふりはしない
だから言ってんの
シャベルなんか持ちたくない
ケチっこいサラリーのために
ぺこぺこしてろ 腰痛持ち
親父はbank robber
誰も傷付けない
ただそれが好きなだけ
あんたたちの金を盗る
The old man spoke up in a bar
Said "I never been in prison
A lifetime serving one machine
Is ten times worse than prison"
Imagine if all the boys in jail
Could get out now together
Whadda you think they'd want to say to us?
While we was being clever
Someday you'll meet your rocking chair
'Cause that's where we're spinning
There's no point to want to comb your hair
When it's grey and thinning
credits
from Songs of The Clash - Hearts & Minds & Crooked Beats,
released February 7, 2024
Recorded and mixed by Howard Bilerman at Hotel2Tango, in Montreal, QC.
Assistant engineer : Shae Brossard
Music performed by TEKE::TEKE
Sei Nakauchi Pelletier - Guitar & vocals
Hidetaka Yoneyama - Guitar & back vocals
Mishka Stein - Bass & back vocals
Yuki Isami - Flute & back vocals
Etienne Lebel - Trombone & back vocals
Ian Lettre - Drums, keyboard & back vocals
Maya Kuroki - Vocals
Malcolm Bauld - Guest vocals
Written by Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon, and Topper Headon.
Copyright Universal-Polygram Int'l Pub o/b/o Nineden, Ltd.
Shared Medium is a nonprofit arts production company headquartered in Seattle with projects spanning
globally.
We produce creative projects that invite collaboration, and that are geared towards engaging and inspiring emerging artists and their communities....more
God I'm so glad there's organisations like NPR Tiny Desk, Audiotree, and chief among them all KEXP, to carry the torch of live studio sessions like the John Peel / BBC radio sessions of yesteryear. Hell, KEXP's sessions have themselves been going for a couple odd decades already, so good on them for continually showcasing fresh and upcoming talent.
I ***REALLY*** wish more full sessions would be commercially released, but if that's left to the bands themselves, then that's more than fair enough Xtra Happy
Like so many others, this came like a bolt out of the blue and, even though it's well before payday, I had to have this astonishing album on vinyl to prove it exists. The feel of the tunes makes me feel like the Impressions do, Curtis Mayfield, the big spaces and instinctive horns and stuff drifting in and out. Great grooves and I can see lots of ghosts nodding along to this with big smiles on their faces. At last! Anthony Cottrell
Boston band featuring members of Have Heart and Basement take their earnest, motivational post-hardcore to thrilling new heights. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 23, 2023