MADAME SALAMI’S GARDEN

The most popular of all the Aunties recordings.

Songs about seeds and growing things and cats and mice.

Also a strange track called The Kumera Songs, which is really a musical story about Kiri te Kumera, who dreams of being an opera singer.

Tracks 2, 3, 5, 7 on side one and 1 (and sometimes) 4 on side two feature in the classic Aunties pre-school show, Madame Salami’s Garden

Side 1`                                                 Side 2

1.   Hurray!                                                      1.   I know a cat

2.   Dig, dig                                                      2.   The Kumera song

3.   MM Magic                                              3.   Thomasina

4.   Warm, warm ground                                   4.   Ernie

5.   Madame Salami’s Garden                           5.   The Jungle Tree

6.   Queenie                                                      6.   In my garden ….

7.   Mices are the nicest

All tracks by Arif Usmani except MM Magic (Arif Usmani and Anna Rugis)

and The Kumera Song (Arif Usmani, Rod Murdoch, Lynn Usmani)

Ernie and Queenie are also on I smell a rat (and other favourite animal songs) CD

The Jungle Tree is also on Cosmic Rock CD

The short version of “something famous by the Aunties” in The Kumera Song refers to Jim on We’re the Aunties cassette and Cosmic Rock CD

CREDITS FOR “Madame Salami’s Garden”

Madame Salami- sax, bird whistle, kazoo, vocals

Auntie Grandpa – acoustic guitar, synthesizer, banjo, kazoo, prepared piano, xylophone,  

            vocals

Auntie Clockwise – guitars, mandolin, synth horns on Madame Salami’s Garden, bass,

            ideas, handclaps

Mr Hooper – drums, bongos, congas, percussion

Auntie Anna – vocals

Auntie Ruby – vocals

Auntie Hugh – vocals

Auntie Stellar – vocals

Auntie Uncle – keyboards vocals

Fat Boy – xylophone, drums on The Kumera Song

Children’s vocals – Violet, Emma, David, Adam

Special guest: Tony Geballe – guitar on Dig, dig and The Jungle Tree

Produced by Arif Usmani

Recorded at Progressive. Engineer: Steve Garden

Cover by Lynn Usmani