Beautifully textured. As the title suggest, this is all about bees and bee behaviour.
When a new queen bee is born, the other unhatched queen eggs are destroyed.
In Royal Jelly, the new queen is keen to share the throne with her unborn sister. This disrupts order in the hive and leads to a revolution by the drones (Viva La Republic!)
.”This is the best guitar work I have
ever recorded!” AUNTIE CLOCKWISE
Side one Side two
1.
Royal Jelly
1. Viva La Republic
2. Moving on 2. Can’t (Reprise)
3. I’m a nurse 3. Magic Dave
4. Hard work doing nothing 4. The Paper Wasp
5. Queen’s Fanfare #1 5. Queen’s Fanfare #2
6. Can’t 6. The fight
7. Black and yellow 7. Only one queen in a hive
Moving on (reprise)
9. We’d like to entertain you (if we could
All words and music by Arif Usmani
Royal Jelly and The Paper Wasp are also on Cosmic Rock CD
Moving on was released on an Australian album, “Seasons for growth”,
which targets
young people who have had traumas, such as losing a parent or a siblings or who’s parents get divorced.
Madame Salami – sax, vocals
Auntie Hugh – clarinet, kazoo, vocals
Parson Tui – violin, kazoo, vocals
Auntie Emma – vocals
Queen Bee – egg maraca. Vocals
Auntie Clockwise – guitars, electric bass, drum machine, coffee cup,
piano, vocals
Auntie Uncle – keyboard, drum machine, vocals
Magic Dave- vocals
Auntie Anna – backing vocals
Richared Twiss – backing vocals
Jinja Beer – soprano sax
Peter Koopman – acoustic bass
John Quigley – drums
Bubu Chatterjee – tables
Kelvin “The Martian” Roy – bass trumpet
Produced by Arif Usmani and Nigel Gavin
Recorded at Mandrill. Engineers: Graham Mhyer and Steve Smith
Cover: Lynn Usmani