Ukulele & Languages

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This week’s ukulele World Tour will bring heartwarming performances from France with the Stoned Popes and Agathe and Fine. These are welcome to drive away the autumn cold which seems to settle in these days.

We’ll then move on to Australia on the other side of the world with another upbeat song by Mike de Velta and at the same time to discover a lovely original instrumental by Andrew Eyles.

After a little stopover in the UK with an upbeat performance by Gus and Fin, it will be time for us to get our share of foreign languages in this World Tour post with some Indonesian, Ukrainian and Russian.

1. Country: France / Language: English

The Stoned Popes is a French band that I have just discovered. Their song called The Loser Song successfully blends percussions, trumpet, xylophone and ukulele.

Guitar and ukulele duets are of special interest to me now that I have discovered the joy of playing such duos myself.

Agathe & Fine perform a lively duet cover

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By the time you read this, I’ll be somewhere between Lyon and Beijing, on my way for a very short 5-day-trip to China for work. It is quite amusing to think that I am taking my Kala Pocket Mahogany Ukulele back to China where it was produced, safely stored in my hand-luggage.

Besides my Kala Pocket, I have synchronised the 2nd Uke Hunt Podcast to my iPod, and I’ve had to refrain from listening to it for a few days to save it for my ten-hour-flight.

Now, time for the latest World Tour findings.

1. Country : Russia / Language : Russian

The band Ado with Andrei Gorokhov on vocals and ukulele.

2. Country : Ukraine / Venezuelan Waltz

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Our world tour takes us to Ukraine today, where we meet Eugen Manzhenko, the first Ukrainian ukulele  player to upload videos to YouTube.

If you feel a bit down, Eugen‘s videos should bring a smile back on your face. Even if you don’t understand the lyrics, there is an underlying feel of optimism in his songs and a real sense of fun which I really enjoy.

I was very curious to find out about ukulele playing in Ukraine and Eugen has very kindly agreed to answer my questions.

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U&L : You are the only Ukrainian ukulele player I have seen on YouTube. How did you discover the ukulele ?

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Merry Christmas !

I believe that by now you are sated with Christmas songs of all kinds, ukulele or not.

So here is a selection of ukulele videos for those of you who do need a break from the Christmas festivities.

Our first destination is Jakarta, Indonesia, with this cover of a song called Kolam Susu by Indonesian band White Shoes and the Couples Company.

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The focus today will be on Eastern Europe with 2 new ukulele videos coming from Poland and Ukraine.

The first one is a nice cover of a Polish song called Jak anioła głos by Feel.

Lyrics can be found here.

Update of the 17th of september 2009 : sadly, the user has removed this video.

The second song is by Ukrainian Веселі Біоритми (Funny Biorythms) called Робот (Robot).

My guess from the few words I can…

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