Another take on Music - Introducing 127 Band as they Do in Khal Punk Album

When I fist saw their video, it was a clip in an art shop for a music called: "My Sweet Little Terrorist Song" It was original amazing and most of all very Alive. They had couple of other good pieces too. I searched YouTube every where and couldn't find that very old video like I made me grow fond of them. So I am going to start this introduction differently.

In their Album Khal Punk they have a song by that name that just introduces the name...there's no music just a lady talking with an accent. I think what she says in the clip is so descriptive of the feelings you are supposed to get when you listen to their music. Here's their Music Page on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/user/127band

Here's the script, trust me you may need it:(though you must listen to it to get the full effect) a seemingly young voice starts speaking with what seems to be Tehran-like street noise in the background:

Well I guess if it's necessary to spell khal (read like Fall, replacing F sound with Kh sound) in English, it's going to have start with a kh. every one know that .....(what!) sound when there's too much Flem in their throat and they need to spit it right out. Then following that there is along a sound right. So how do you emphasize that. I guess you could put to a's. Or maybe you can use one of those a's that has a line over the top of it like the flat sailor's cap. But if you spell it with one a, I think people would just say 'khal' (read like Gas with G replaced with Kh) which is a bit khaz (khaz: refers to state of jadedness.) Even worse if they can't get the Kh right it's gonna come out as 'Kal'

What does Khal mean anyway? My dictionary says: spot, dot, mole, beauty spot." Maybe khal is the beauty spot that lingered down below Marlyn Monroe's chick. Or maybe it's the sun's black spot. it could be the unevenly freckles on my right hand upper side. Or the pips on a set of playing cards. It's the motley spot place half-hazardly on a lepped's coat. unevenly spaced and shaped but fitted together with complementary colors like a jig-saw puzzle place into blue plato. A dabble , speckle or motto, any one of the numerous array of blemishes that give a new character to person or object.

So what the fuck is khal punk then? It's really just this bunch of motley kids, playing a motley style they've created from their motley surroundings. This grey, smoggy, lego city, with a flat roofs and dapples of color speckled out randomly.