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Burn That Ukulele! Vol 1: Uke Transmissions 2011​-​13

by Bradfield Dumpleton

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Tasmanian Summer 03:19
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Donkey On A Swing 02:28
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Rooty Toot Toot 02:27
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Rosy Borderline 04:15
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The Shed Song 04:05
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If I Was A Bumblebee 02:15
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Occasional Life 03:07
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Lonesome Prayer 04:54
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Archaeologist Blues 02:19
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Killin' Time 02:31
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I'm Gonna Take A Bit Of That One 04:00
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Strollin' 02:09
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Yours Codependently 06:54
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14.
The Ghost Of My Ukulele Baby 02:30
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15.
Just For You 02:59
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Bullshit And Art 05:30
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Banana Bender 03:42
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18.
Sing Like Curtis Mayfield 04:16
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Here Come The Loose Tongues 04:07
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20.
Somewhere Further Down The Line 05:03
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21.
I Left My Hum At Home 01:54
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Burn That Ukulele! 04:25
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about

From around 2005 - 2016, ukulele was my instrument of choice, and from late 2011 to early 2013 I documented the songs & instrumentals that emerged over that period by filming & posting them on YouTube.

Burn That Ukulele! Vol 1 collects the audio from the videos of the 22 ukulele songs (ie not instrumentals) I posted on YT between 2011 - 2013. Vol 2 & 3 will compile the 40 instrumentals I posted during that time.

Back then, I could only record using the internal mic on an aging laptop, so no doubt some ears will take offense at the audio quality. I encourage the listener to think of them as 'folk field recordings', a la Alan Lomax - there are stumblings, hesitations, dud notes, the hiss & hum of the computer fan, but I present them here as an honest document, authentic to their moment. Ideally, I would have preferred to develop these songs with full instrumentation, but life had other things in mind for me.

Other versions of some of these pieces have been 'properly' recorded elsewhere (Limited Emission CD, Pigbox & Co. Vol 1), but for most of the tracks these are the only versions likely to ever exist, and I doubt I'll revisit them again.

Overall I was pretty self-conscious about my 'songs' (and my voice) and preferred to focus on instrumentals. Nevertheless, these songs still represent a body of work in my musical evolution, a self-guided creative learning process, and a long period of psycho-emotional recalibration, allowing myself moments of focused silliness as a form of catharsis amidst some very difficult times.

The tracks are ordered according to when I wrote them, rather than when I recorded them for YT, as many of them were written between 2005 - 2011, and to a certain extent the chronology shows an evolutionary (or devolutionary?) flow. The only exception is Here Come The Loose Tongues, which I originally wrote as a guitar song in 2002, then worked it out on uke for this 2012 version.

Versions of Tasmanian Summer, Rosy Borderline, Rooty Toot Toot, Archaeologist Blues, and If I Was A Bumblebee all appear on Limited Emission CD, with doublebassist Ross Sermons. An earlier live version of Tasmanian Summer also appears on A Month Of Moonbeams, with Andrew Morrisby on cello bass / vocs. Versions of Lonesome Prayer and Here Come The Loose Tongues also appear on Pigbox & Co Vol 1.

For best results, approach with a sense of humour.

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released July 16, 2023

All music & art © Bradfield Dumpleton 2002 - 2013.

BD plays: Bruko soprano ukulele, Cordoba tenor ukulele, National metal-bodied resonator ukulele, Mya-Moe walnut-bodied resonator ukulele, vocs.

All performances originally recorded live on video and posted on YouTube between 2011-2013.

More info: bradfielddumpleton.com/burn-that-ukulele-vol-1-uke-transmissions-2011-13/

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A library of musical sketchbooks, mapping my various evolutions from 2005 to next week. Dedicated to exploring sound for its own sake. Many diverse delights here for the patient & attentive listener.

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