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Hi there, the name of the group
is Barins
Yeah, Barins, Italian surname,
borrowing meaning from pubs
and brains
Or 360 Graus’ characters
We don’t play well to please (no
one but ourselves)
We’re Barins and here’s no singa-
long, no standard
pronunciation!
Be ready to get on at random
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False Alarm
02:35
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You know, we, Barins, are emigrants,
false dago reds (devil rats),
ended up in Brighton, England.
We were looking to get a life
We were staying in this crazy hostel
With nuts, nuts all around
One morning, I was, kind of, sleeping
And, humn, you know, humn
I didn’t realize at the time, but
There was this, humn
Everybody downstairs
And I wasn’t even able to pull my socks
up!
And it was false alarm
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Play
02:19
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Do you know Fred?
I know I should have learned to speak properly in order to form a rock group in England, sorry for that, after all you have dumped the runes for people like the Normans and me.
You know, things like Beowulf, Chaucer or even Shakespeare.
But here I am
just a homey who knows some Smiths lyrics,
a grotesque amalgamation pleading for something else than baby talk, looking for my FOXP2.
Let me tell you about Fred.
The FT hypothesis describes us all attempting to simplify lives by language.
And a 6ft Fortean Times reader could be a nurse too.
Our lives, mate
Crossed by case
But I keep going, code-switching
lacking grammar and vocabulary
just trying not to become a pigeon
Yeah, amalgamation, amalgamation
It's a pidgin living, this outsider jargon Barins let off,
All Calque lyrics, creole rock, such a pidgin life
It's a pidgin living, slightly a living language
A bar in my head
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Second Opinion
02:02
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I was trying to sell my car
The poor stupid girl boyfriend's opinion was not enough
So we took my car for a friend of her to see it
Because this guy was told to be a mechanic
And he said "my pussycat, this car is not for you"
"Because if it breaks down, no way, you'll have to throw it away"
Then he said to me "man, if someone offers you 2000 pounds, be sure it's already too much"
"For you to sell this car here, man, you'll have to kick it to somebody"
So I kicked the car to somebody
I kicked the car
Let's kick the car
Kick it
Kick the car
A brand new car
And everybody was kicking the car
Just because the guy was a mechanic and he was saying to kick the car to sell it
credits
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World Trip Sponsorship
01:50
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We needed to rent a place to live in.
The lady from the estate agency called me up saying she had found the ideal home for us.
So we went there, to see the house.
Nice, yeah, it was nice. Big house, the rent wasn't even unreachable.
The landlords were a couple, young people.
There was a lot of books; good people, I though. Furnished house, I like it, I said.
Then the lady from the estate agency told us the young couple was going to do a trip around the world.
At that one moment, that house became our home and we became happy to spend our miserable salary to somehow sponsor our landlords' trip around the world.
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Lambrusco
03:02
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Supermarket; my friend Narc and I went to buy some
The cashier didn't want to sell it to us, saying Narc was too young
Then I said it was all for me
But no way
So I said "hey man, ciao"
And he understood that, 'cause he went outside
In the meantime the cashier went crazy and there was already a queue going on
I remember a fellow behind me saying "man, I know it's crazy but you'd have to choose another cashier without him..."
Well, we had to get out of there without the bottles we had chosen already
Back to the hostel, I then made a search on the web
(he wasn't 21 but he's 20 and that should make the difference, gord!)
Yeah
So we went back to the supermarket and Narc bought the bottles of wine by himself
And now we know that the lambrusco sold in England is sweeter than that in Italy
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One Hour
01:56
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Working in a hospital as a housekeeper can be crap, but working in a hospital as a housekeeper in a country in which you can't speak its language is cruel!
One day I was about to simply go home one hour before the end of my shift, by mistake.
And I couldn't even explain to the furious supervisors who were facing me that I hadn't done it out of spite...
Well, I thought "when it happens, generally people arrive one hour late..."
One hour I'll change, yeah, change attitude, change bins too
Three phalanges on every finger, counting till 12 with the thumb on one hand
All analogies among sets of data
I found out what refraction is, at work, lying on a couch in an empty ward, looking to the window trying not to sleep
I was supposed to clean that ward but the hangover was killing me
Never say "see you tomorrow" to your supervisor just by hearing traces of a conversation between people who don't speak your same language!
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I Am Not Patient
03:41
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Larry and Narc, they made a tune on the guitar
And we went to rehearse it, insert lyrics and everything
Well, when they first played it to me
I was quite sleepy, so I didn't listened very well
But it wasn't bad, I think
The thing is, I'm not patient
Well, Larry played, well, I grumbled...
What the hell is this?!?
Damn, you inverted the times
There's no sense, damn!
Then they told me again
that I am not patient...
Larry reached to asking me to make a song
about this
The following day, after coming back from work, I realized that song would have lyrics like this
I'm not patient, no
Nor doctor, no
Nor porter
Housekeeper I am
Patient the fuck
The thing is, I do know I don't know any fucking thing, yeah
Luckily not every patient is like the son of a bitch of bed 8
I got scared today
After cleaning all his soil again
I wished he stopped grunting forever
So I realized I'm not patient at all
Fuck, it's not the chorus yet
no, no, time has changed
it's not ta ta ta, it's pa pa pa
hey, look, there will be the chorus, right after this bit
I am not patient, no
Nor doctor, no
Nor porter
Housekeeper I am
I am not patient, no
I am not patient,
Not yet
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Cleanup Employees Party
01:58
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At the cleanup employees party, super goal!
At the cleanup employees party, mopping, mopping, deep clean!
Hundreds of members, strategically infiltrated, supporting the pseudo-coreligionists cause
Cleanup employees party, mopping, mopping
Cleanup employees party, hosting too
Training to take over the office
The new consulate is the hospital!
Pirate broadcast helping the sick
One minute ahead of grandstand's
One-point result, one-point missing
Watch out Infection site
Brighton's most brazilian platform
You'll find it at the cleanup employees party
Mopping, bossa nostra, super goal!
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Nordkinn Path
03:31
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Nine thousand kilometres, by car
Little money, a few days off work
Many mp3 cds, wine and beer, and maps
Well, once more on the road!
Heading north
We left Treviso, it was summer time, and we went towards the extreme north of Norway, Nordkinn
Through Italy, Austria, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Norway
Coming back through Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland
Do you know what life is? I don't.
But when I swum nude in a lake between Finland and Russia, within the Artic Circle, I just saw a spark of it
And when we walked a path towards the northernmost lighthouse in Europe, yeah I saw a spark of it
And we were all hungry
I expected to find out nothing in there, up in the north
we were at Nordkinn, and there was nothing but beauty.
We walked a path and we were all hungry
Next summer we will go to china, through Russia, going through all Trans-Siberian railway
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Dog On Leef I
02:20
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I wanted to write a lyric about god for this song,
not about all this fucking evil which religion is and religious people do,
but how could I write something good about nothing especially, humn, real?
I have already thought Mark Smith could be God.
Of course, I was wrong.
Well, at least I saw him as Jesus once, on the telly.
Religious people in practice act just as they think atheists do.
Bang and Crunch are just Bounce or Rip and Freeze are just the same heat death.
Branes, all branes in a bulk.
Flakes, all flakes in a bowl.
God could be gas, but isn't. It's just gas.
Heidelberg was a really strange place then, when the folks began worrying about digging and monoliths, just like Atapuerca.
But Eridu and Thinis weren't enough to avoid the Axis, on the contrary.
Controlling subjects was tempter.
Death, from selfish fear became an others hit, a Top of the Pops number one single.
But it's all gas, axial.
Cynophobia indoctrination.
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Breezing
02:58
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Hey Tony, don't go away, please.
You're Barins' souce, wow.
Someone's trying to stick me a finger now
But I'm not that type, no.
Valpolicella, you're glorious, I feel in a roses sea.
Tony, we're gonna miss you, bro.
O dear windy Brighton and Hove.
Take this day, go!
Well, I wanna know Mexico.
Do you think you're free when you do what you're supposed to?
Do you think you're free when you don't do what you're supposed to?
Do you think you're free when you do what you're not supposed to?
People feature in the stories they tell themselves, to make sense of their world; they're just a convenient but fictional character.
Shooting the breeze, oh cutting wind, breezing through different worlds. My guru's breeze.
Barins trying to catch the breeze.
Fssssiiiiuuuuuu fssiiuuuuu
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Harmony Among People
02:20
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It's a hard life
I am an immigrant, yes, that's a fact
Therefore I need to learn some English
If I want to live in England, you know
As I've been seeing so many lovely bottoms since I arrived here I've tried to improve my vocabulary
So I saw a really cool bottom
And said
Let's make love, baby
Come to my bedroom
Or something like that, you know
I was so happy, being able to communicate
Feeling harmony among people
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Hi there, the name of the group is Barins
Yeah, Barins, Italian surname, borrowing meaning from pubs and brains
Or 360 Graus' characters
We don't play well to please (no one but ourselves)
We're Barins and here's no sing-a-long, no standard pronunciation!
Be ready to get on at random
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O Bosque / Woodland recordings Bristol, UK
O Bosque / Woodland is a DIY label, dedicated to indiepop, lofi, electronic music, folk, experimental, shoegaze, rock and
pretty much everything in-between.
It was founded in Brazil in 1996 and put to sleep in 2004, from 2008 to 2011 it operated in Brighton, UK, then back in Brazil until 2016, then put to sleep again and now in Bristol, UK.
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