Bucket Leak Week 8: Ba Donso, We Did This

Hello Everyone,

Alex wrote this song while on tour in California with JBB. He says, "Something about San Francisco is always so inspiring to me. This song is more guitar based than a lot of our other stuff and its like nothing I've ever written." Ba Donso is Craig's nick name and it comes from the Malian Bambara language. Ba mans "great/ wise/ big" and a donso is a hunter of the ancient hunter n'goni tradition. N'goni is the stringed instrument you hear Craig playing throughout the song. Alex wrote the music and melodies, and I started out wanting to write a story about dirty gritty pain, because all my other songs seemed happy. And from that seed came this story, about people oppressed, being held down in a hole by a big strong evil person. Then they get rescued by a big orange bird and brought to a new life. We Did This refers to pain we inflict on ourselves, and especially everything we humans have done to the old beautiful wild world to make it the way it is now... and now we're suffering and so is our Earth.

This is the drawing I made to accompany the song.

Enjoy it!

Love,
Kalmia
+ Rubblebucket�

Click here to become part of the bucket leak and hear this and 7 other songs from our new, unreleased album peeps!

Bucket Leak Week 7: Maya

Maya was written over a few weeks sitting behind the counter working at Boarder's (before I finally quit my day job). The song is musically inspired by Ethiopian musician Mulatu Astatke. It is about the thresholds of light and dark that are experienced in love. It is dedicated to a very special human being in my life, and we hope you can find a place for it's melancholy sound in your life. Hope you enjoy it.

Love,
Adam & Rubblebucket

Click here to sign up for the Bucket Leak (if you haven't already) and hear Maya and all of the past Bucket Leak songs right away.

Bucket Leak Week 5: Phillip's Van

Phillips van was born in a desolate corporate parking lot next to a bunch of big box stores and chains. Alex had an inkling of a beat in his head but we didn't have any rehearsals coming up. It was two HOT July days in a row in this parking lot with almost nobody in the audience, but somehow we were all merry anyway. Over the course of the two gigs we experimented with Alex's beat and Phillip's Van was born. I was thinking a lot about fashion a lot at the time and I wanted to express how fashion doesn't just have to be about corporateness and consumerism, but it can be about celebration, art, beauty, feeling your finest, and sharing your finest self with the world. The words really hit for me later in the summer when we were playing a beautiful Vermont wedding, and everyone was there, all ages, all dressed up and dancing together. The drawing is my visual rendition of Phillip's Van.

Click here to sign up for the Bucket Leak (if you haven't already) and hear Phillip's Van and the 4 other songs right away.

Enjoy!
Kalmia + Rubblebucket