Claude McKenzie what a voice!

 Grammarcop wrote: 
Whereas others prefer the penduline tit.

Northern lakes and Loon calls at dusk - you can actually loon call back and forth to the birds.

.  Mark Twain may have settled for Bermuda, but not me >>>

 Lumpy13 wrote: 

ROTFLMAO..... No disrespect to the song, but this is a very funny comment, one that I'll be laughing about all day.

PS. The Canadian 1 dollar coin (commonly called Loonie) is a gold-coloured one-
dollar coin introduced in 1987. It bears images of a common loon.
For those who have never heard the call/cry of the Loon, while it is woeful, it is unique
and beautiful.

 alux wrote: 
Doesn't one also appear on the back of the Canadian dollar coin?

First heard this on the soundtrack for a early-to-mid 1990's TV show, "Due South", as I was about to move up to the Great White North.  Dying for some poutine!

Fabulous structure.........

The loon is cool, but how about equal time for the Kirtland's Warbler?

Why is Ashton Kutcher singing about Tuna?  Oh wait, my bad,  maybe need to slow up on the scotch. 

Always loved Kashtin.  The whole album is excellent.  Our local hippie introduced us to this back when I was but a wee lad...

Surprising - Bill's playing such crap...

 Sleepytyme wrote: 

Actually, this is the same artist that performs this same song on Robbie Robertson's "Music for the Native Americans," which was a collaborative effort.  See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_for_The_Native_Americans

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashtin

 auburntigerrich wrote: 

Big +1 from me!

These lyrics are so catchy.
Akua tshe mushumenut
Akua kiei tshukumenut eshei
Akua tshe tuassimenut
Akua kiei tsheshimenut eshei

Any song that starts with about 60 seconds of loon calls is okay in my book.

We don't see many great northern divers in sunny south Devon, you see some in the winter right up north
We get plenty of bloody loons.

Outstanding.

 alux wrote: 
And the Nottingham jury can listen to some of their calls here:  http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/loon/identification.html#Looney
We Canucks love our 'loonies', too! 

 fredriley wrote: 
The birdcalls are loons, not curlews—Kashtin is from Canada, where loons are iconic birds of Northern lakes all across the forest and tundra.  They do occur in UK waters too, where they are known as divers.   The loon call in question is from the Common Loon, or the Great Northern Diver for you Brits.     

 coccyx wrote:
 
I wouldn't know a loon if it pecked me on the bum, as I don't think they're native to the UK. The birdcalls at the start sure did sound an awful lot like the curlews I hear on t'moors, but that could be a misidentification on my part, or perhaps loons sound like curlews (or vice versa). Anyway, the birdsong's the nicest bit of this otherwise ho-hum number, IMO.

 trekhead wrote: 
Bad pun - I can smell it from here!    But you're closer to the truth than you may realize:

"Kashtin were a Canadian folk rock duo in the 1980s and 1990s, one of Canada's most famous and influential First Nations musical groups.

The band was formed in 1984 by Claude McKenzie and Florent Vollant, two Innu (aka Montagnais) from the Maliotenam reserve in northern Quebec. The name Kashtin means "tornado" in the Innu-aimun language, but was also chosen as a pun on the English language phrase "cashed in", in response to friends who alleged that the band was selling out."  ~ Wikipedia

I'm another native-born Quebecer who thinks Kashtin rocks! 

Say what?

 lee_sf wrote: 
Brilliant, isn't it?

coccyx wrote:
I didn't hear any curlews either, just loons.

Be cool to see this followed up by "Wheat Kings" by The Tragically Hip, as it also opens with loon calls. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like anyone has uploaded it.

 fredriley wrote: 

I love the sound of curlews, too, but I'd have to listen to the beginning of this song again to see if I can pick it out among all the loon ("diver") calls.

Oooh, I do love the sound of curlews, reminiscent of the wild windswept moors and mountains I've tromped for so, so long. I could go for a whole track of curlew calling, minus the music. 8 for the curlews, minus 3 for the intrusive music, so 5 from the Nottingham jury.

An amazing transition from John Anderson - Seminole Wind. RP is the only place I've ever heard two average songs BOTH improved by the way they were connected.