D Is For Dappled
News posted Friday, June 12 2009 at 12:00 AM.
Related: Dappled Cities.
Could Dappled Cities be the new Yo Gabba Gabba? The band are currently appearing in a new Playhouse Disney series called “Alphabreaks”, which introduces preschoolers to the letters of the alphabet with the help of musical instruments. For example, A is for accordion, B is for banjo, C is for cello … you get the idea.
“Yeah, this is a funny one,” singer Tim Derricourt told M+N this week. “The idea came about from Disney about three weeks before we were due to go in and record our [forthcoming] album [Zounds], about September last year. So we didn't think it would really work that well considering our heads were deep in serious songwriting mode. But it ended up being awesome fun.”
The tracks were penned by a children’s writer and composer Kyls Burtland, who is best known for writing the current ABC theme. Tom Spark (The Vines, Thirsty Merc, Cat Empire) directed the accompanying clips.
“We wrote the music for only two of the tracks (‘Jug’ and ‘Zither’) but we recorded the music in an intense four-day recording session in Tempe,” explains Derricourt. “Then we just became a group of miming silly men, laughing and singing to the tracks for the kids.”
The band will embark on a 14-date cross-country tour in support of their new album Zounds in August. Interestingly, there’ll be no all-ages shows.
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Awesome.
This has kept me happy all week.
crossing ts, dotting is
em, me too! i hope they take alphabet requests on their tour.
ha!
i'm going to dedicate each week of my radio show to a different letter from next week i reckon.