Group 8 of the Geert Grote School in Zwolle waves goodbye and thanks everybody on the net for their support.


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Now they are splitting up and leaving for different secundary schools after summer holiday.
These are the kids who played a main part in the creation of:

In my spaceship (more info)

They sung:

Tokyo

Noël

They played:

Mister Jan's elementary blues

Also some of them where involved in these three tracks:

We willen een jeugdhonk, want anders flip ik (more info)

De kindsoldaten

Hey, Mister Jones

Remco Takken has produced splogcast number 12 and he is presenting some music in which he took part himself one way or the other. I think this is one of the most remarkable episodes of this program sofar, so download and enjoy!

www.hepcatwilly.com/music/splogman/splogcast12.mp3 offline

Primary School Florens Radewijn, july 12 2005: http://www.archive.org/download/florens_radewijn_05/Lessiboy.mp3 http://www.archive.org/download/florens_radewijn_05/Dinolied.mp3 more options at archive.org

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Remember I promised you to post visual art by kids. Well, here's what i found on the wall of a class that I've been seeing for about 2 to 4 times each year for musical workshops for the past 5 years. Next week is their last week at primary school.


And these are the djembé's that they made of clay and pig skin with the help of my collegue Magreet.


And here are they playing their self built instruments.

And this is how that sounds:

http://home.deds.nl/~ggs/djembee-les-01.mp3
(splogman on "teacher whistle")

Chenard Walcker : Houseplantfsz038 79:14 july 2005

This album is the response from Chenard to a site called Houseplant Picture Studio that has a nihilist-like speech about netlabels: 42 songs.
CHENARD WALCKER CAN'T WALK; CHENARD WALCKER CAN'T TALK; HE'S A BUNNY MAN; ARE YOU WITH US? 'COS WE'RE THE ROBOTS; ROBOTS; R-O-B-O-T-S; AND WE'RE IN FOR CHENARD;
http://www.freesamplezone.org/fsz038.htm

When I was a kid, we had a pet duck. We hadn't bought her, nor did we raise her. It was just that one day she probably figured out where all those bits of old bread came from, which we threw at her and her friends in the water behind our house and she just suddenly walked in our kitchen and kept doing that for a period of about two years. Sometimes she even walked to the front door when the back door was closed and sat there waiting for us to open it. And when having eaten her bread from our hands, she left through the back. We gave her a name, but -strange how memory works- I can't remember it.
Later I thought perhaps this animal was a re-incarnation of a late family member, but probably she was just lacking the fear and caution that her fellow ducks needed to stay survive, a biological flaw :-)

Three songs about ducks offline
Herman van Veen - In het kippenhok (actually about chickens who find a lost duck in their quarters)
Rick Dees - Disco Duck
Willy B. Kids - Alle eendjes zwemmen in het water House-adaptation of old Dutch nursery rhyme: all the ducks are swimming in the water

What do Benny Vreden, Wim de Bie, Gene Ammons, Jaap Geraedts, Kees van Baren, Jackson Heights, Harry Belafonte, Bob Dylan, Muppet Stuf, Splogman's collegues, Splogman's pupils, Gustav Mahler, Fred van Duynhoven, The Osmonds, Pink Floyd and Boudewijn de Groot have in common?

Yes, that's right! They're all on Splogcast number 11.

Who's first in guessing this week's theme of three of a kind gets a surprise sent by snail mail.

Next week will be the last splogcast before summer break.



http://www.hepcatwilly.com/music/splogman/splogcast11.mp3
(25,6 Mb)
http://home.deds.nl/~splog/splogcast11.wma (5 Mb-version)

splogworks and other netlabel releases remixed by http://www.idealstandard.net/

Klaus Krüger, Cathy Berberian, Toni Harper, The history of the alfabet, Boudewijn de Groot, Normaal, De Zangeres Zonder Naam, music from Senegal, Muzik di Zumbi from Curaçao, a lot of ELO and more in:

splogcast number 10 (69 minutes 27,5 Mb) (offline)