The Jungle is Jumping (Flea Bite Audio CD)

Author(s): fleaBite

Poetry

Tui award winner brings the jungle drums to town with a perfect mix of entertainment, originality and intelligence for young kiwis.


THE JUNGLE IS JUMPING is the latest cool and crazy children’s album from fleaBITE, winner of the 2013 Best NZ Children’s Album. This is the third release from fleaBITE, written and produced by Robin Nathan (producer of the successful FATCAT & FISHFACE CD series). 


Thirteen fab new songs travel off the beaten track to exotic locales.  There’s adventure on the high seas (No Toast), a night-time duel with a mad mosquito (Little Miss Mosquito), and Dr Suess inspired salsa (Pom Pom Song).


THE JUNGLE IS JUMPING features top NZ musical talent.  Two members of critically acclaimed indie band The Phoenix Foundation spice up the jungle curry (Conrad Wedde on guitar and Chris O’Connor on drums), and jazz wild man Jeff Henderson howls on the saxophone. This is exciting stuff…it’s definitely not the Wiggles! 


Grab your insect repellent and check out the best kids’ album to beat its chest and swing through the trees. Family trips in the car will never be so entertaining.


Product Information

"The third album from acclaimed nipper-centric songwriter Robin Nathan, and it's a testament to her wry lyrics and wide-ranging arrangements that I still listen to this stuff, voluntarily and alone, years after my daughter exchanged such fare for Beyonce and Taylor Swift. 

Assisted by The Phoenix Foundation's Conrad Wedde and Chris O'Connor,and jazz saxophonist Jeff Henderson, it's another prime batch of sharp, funny, adult-friendly kids' songs with a rich seam of surrealism.

Highlights? 'Get Out' is bargain-basement techno garnished with racing car noises. 'Peel Me' wraps sinuous hi-life guitars around a paean to the potato. With growling lions and tribal tom-toms, the title track channels the steamy exoticism of a Les Baxter album from the 1950s. 'Don't Believe What I Say' rightly advises against putting faith in the pronouncements of crusty old adults, while 'Pom Pom Song' rhymes "pom pom" with "Hamilton" over a slinky slab of cruise ship salsa. As sinister as it is brilliant, 'Little Miss Mosquito' concerns that perennial summer annoyance: the nocturnal flying bloodsucker. "Little Miss Mosquito wants to spend the night with me," sings Nathan over buzzing guitar strings and a bass drum that thuds like an anxious heartbeat. "Little Miss Mosquito wants to stick her knife in me." But my favourite song, 'In Your Pyjamas' invites the diminutive listener to venture outside in their PJs then look up into the twinkling night sky - a tribe of miniature Carl Sagans, overwhelmed by the cosmic wonderland that surrounds us." --Grant Smithies, Sunday Star Times

 

Written/produced by Robin Nathan 


Performed by fleaBITE 


Featuring: 


Conrad Wedde - guitar 


Chris O'Connor - drums 


Jeff Henderson - sax, clarinet, backing vocals

1. Do the Woopsie


2. Litle Miss Mosquito

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