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papa moa

.........words about someone we knew..........

About Me

papa moa is the performance name adopted by Dave Walker, who for many years sang with the highly-regarded east midlands-based folk group Fieldwork. Previously he played guitar & harmonium with C-Cat Trance, and has also played with Fantastic Shoes and with David Longdon. Dave's own material is singer/songwriter, country/folk tinged urban melancholia, performed mainly on acoustic guitar and banjo, with added harmonium, double bass, drums, electric guitar and ukulele. The music to these songs is mellow and melodic the accompanying lyrics are poetic and soulful - the overall effect is folksy, plaintive, atmospheric and well..downright melancholic. Two CDs are available:- Papa Moa & The Lemonade Ocean (2005) and Wolf Of The World (2006). Recent gigs (and recordings) have featured Alan Brown on bass guitar and David Mitchell on electric guitar and harmonium. Both also provide heavenly vocal harmonies. Alongside their own material, papa moa also play covers (inc Richard Thompson, Nick Drake, Grant Lee Buffalo, The Band, CSNY, Joe Henry)p

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Member Since: 6/3/2006
Band Website: papamoamusic.com
Band Members: Dave Walker - guitar, vocals, banjo Alan Brown - bass, vocals David Mitchell - electric guitar, harmonium, vocals
Influences: Neil Young, Richard Thompson, Elephant Micah, Great Lake Swimmers, Nick Drake, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Will Oldham, Tony's Bacon, Van Morrison, Elliot Smith, John Martyn, Kevin Coyne, Roy Harper, Neil Finn, The Shins, Sufjan Stevens, Kevin Ayers, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, Caravan, King Crimson, Yes, Porcupine Tree, English & European folk singing, Nic Jones, Martin Simpson, David Crosby, George Mackay Brown, Lake Rotoma, Royski, Richard Brautigan,..
Sounds Like: papa moa weather forecast :-sure as cats are cats, ‘twill be a fine fair summery day, with a single wee whispery white & wispy cloud drifting in the clear blue - this will take the whole of the long summerday to move slowly across the sky, assuming as it goes a succession of strange, suggestive shapes – and if you should pause in your back yard, look up from your breadmaking, muse from your street corner, gaze idly on high during your beach stroll - you might see a mermaid calling, a trembling star, a piano monkey in a subway, a haiku carved on stone, a greyscale sea, a girl riding her motorbike through the desert, may see a beautiful ghost, a wave about to break, a frosty shilling, a curlew calling, smoke curling from a chimney, the soft tread of a wolf (slinking away from the door of your world), a baby tornado, a cathedral on high, a lemonade ocean, the salt-windblown hair of a lover, a kingfisher skimming a secret river place, a sleeping house…… .....'til the sun sets and the cloud curls away in the still glow of your evening
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