The High Llamas "Hey Panda" (Official Music Video)
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- "Hey Panda" is from the forthcoming album Hey Panda by The High Llamas out on LP/CD/Digital from Drag City on March 29th, 2024.
Directed by Simon Russell
Featuring dancer Neringa Dirik
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Anyone noticed the nod to Miles Davis’s Sketches of Spain on the album cover?
Hey Panda has really grown on me lately. It took me a couple months to "get it", but now I understand this music and I'm so glad I get more Llamas.
Hey Panda is both sad and hopeful.
This is such a beautiful and creative song. I've loved this band for decades and Sean has always struck me as part master craftsman and part risk taker.
We have to remember that Here Come The Rattling Trees was written as music for a stage play and in the Drag City recording all the actors and show have been lost. That's a huge risk, to enter the world of stage and I think the disconnect between the album and the play it was written for makes people less interested in that project. This was still a cool thing to experiment with and I respect the hell out of that record.
Talahomi Way was a risk too... Relying on nothing but his songwriting intuition and a smile, Sean went for it and the result was one of the best albums ever.
Even Hawaii was a huge risk at the time! For that reason alone, I've been able to warm up to Hey Panda. It's scary to have so many drum machine sounds and autotuned voices throughout. This kind of thing at first felt "Un-High Llama-esque" to me. When you unpack that thought though, what does that even mean? Were there not drum machines on Cold and Bouncy and even Talahomi Way in places? Is it wrong to use autotune? Is it wrong to collaborate with others?
No and no. None of this is wrong. The autotune in the song fits the music and is 20 years too late to serve as a serious olive branch to the world of early 2000's pop music.
The collaboration here is very minimal and really only adds a few vocal parts akin to "scatting" near the end.
The chorus is as beautiful and catchy as ever, but the rest of the song has a more academic approach to it's bass, harmony and melodic construction. This song is more intellectual and thought provoking than the usual High Llamas music, and I think that's worth celebrating. Sean is using new tools in the studio, working with new people, and making new music with the sensibilities of a world at war, with more concern about the future of our world than he ever has.
That ain't a real panda, that's a human with a panda head on.
Are you high, man?
holy shit
Fantastic! But, hey Drag City: repress the other ones too, some of us need to complete our discographies of this genious...
Agreed!
How have you missed on the earlier releases on vinyl? It's not like they were completely under the radar. A bit perplexing. Did you just discover High Llamas a couple of weeks ago, or..? I've got all of the previously released High Llamas records on vinyl, barring the very first album (Santa Barbara) - which I think was solely released on CD if my memory serves me right.
Wake up, my friend... ;)
@@jazzupthattriad1257 Why display the worst of social media behavior trying to belittle other people? There's no need to be that person. I have the full discography from Gideon Gaye onwards except for Beet, Maize and Corn and Buzzle Bee which I, for I'm sure different reasons of no interest to the internet, did not buy when they came out. We are not all perfect collectors all the time. All the best for the future.
@@jazzupthattriad1257 They're incredibly hard to find in the US.
More repression!
Always great to see something new from Sean!
Any new music from Sean is a cause for celebration, but new High Llamas makes me so happy!
Me too. Happiness!
Straight to heart and the soul as always. March cannot come quick enough. ❤❤
Welcome back Llamas!
Po from kung fu panda brought me here
Welcome back, High Llamas
Unorthodox...absolutely original...so VERY happy Sean and the Llamas are back. Cannot wait to plunk down the $$$ for the album.
aside from the autotune
@@machiventa858,lighten up. A few tech trix here and there doesn't kill the tune and in fact can be quite apropos. Apparently you think it's still 1966. People are trying a lot of new things now. Nothing to get your panties in a twist about, know say?
I think it works
That's my favorite music! Sometimes (rarely) Auto-Tune is not a bad thing...
Needs a little 'Hoops Hooley' warmth to it but on the whole a welcome return.
Pandtastic!
Song of the year
I love it!
I was touched by your elegant beautiful song!!!
great songwriting!!! great work!!!
Much love from Colorado, USA.
This tune makes me happy :))))
This is amazing
Hmmm