Tunng
Tunng are an English folk music band. They are often associated with the folktronica genre, due to the electronic influences evident in some of their work. Tunng are often noted for their use of strange instruments, including sea shells.
Biography
Sam Genders and Mike Lindsay, two of the founding members of Tunng, began their musical careers together after meeting at one of Sam's early London solo gigs.
Besides releasing five albums and numerous singles since 2004, Tunng have covered Bloc Party's song "The Pioneers". Both the original and cover were featured in the third season of The O.C. ("The Man of the Year", Episode 24). They also covered Tim Buckley's "No Man Can Find The War" for the 2005 tribute album Dream Brother: The Songs of Tim and Jeff Buckley.
They supported Doves on dates at the end of their 2005 tour. Member Becky Jacobs is the younger sister of electronic musician Max Tundra.
In 2007, the band were included on The Imagined Village album, with a re-told version of "Death and the Maiden". In 2008, Tunng remixed the song "Hoko Onchi" on Dive Index's Collisions - The Mid/Air Remixes. Their song "Bullets" was played during the end credits of the Weeds season four episode, "Till We Meet Again", in September 2008.
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ALBUMS
- Turbines released: 2013
- This Is Tunng... Live From the BBC released: 2011
- Remixes. released: 2010
- And Then We Saw Land released: 2010
- Good Arrows released: 2007
- Comments of the Inner Chorus released: 2006
- Mother's Daughter and Other Songs released: 2005
Remixes.
Released 2010- Bricks (Dntel remix)
- Bullets (Max Tundra remix)
- Woodcat (Vica Voce remix)
- It's Because… We've Got Hair (Department of Eagles remix)
- Bodies (The Memory Band remix)
- Bricks (I Heart Fuckabees remix)
- Jaybird (North Atlantic Water remix)
- Jenny Again (The Earlies remix)
- It's Because… We've Got Hair (Modified Toy Orchestra remix)
- Bricks (Daedelus remix)
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Bodies
by: TunngYou've grown up so much since I saw you all those days
ago
Still got that look about you still got those things
that we know
Red gilded place in the woods and the words that were
said
Black twisted branches that hid all the things that we
did
You threaded wasps on to string and you gave them to me
You touched the edges of their wings and the insides of
me
All of the years make a picture that's faded and bright
All of the years make us different and faded and bright
Bring back the bodies and lay them out for me
Smooth down their crisp clear white wings in the
morning
Bring back the yellow and black of the bodies
Lay them out slowly and string them up gently for me
Small piles of sticks built up like temples to time in
the sun
Beds of green leaves laid out where fear and O negative
burn
Strange to see you in a suit but your shoes are still
red
Strange to see you at the front after all that you said
Your face changed a long time ago
But you're the same underneath this sleet
That whirls around like a line between worlds
And there are birds in here singing lullabies to me
About bodies and you and me and all that we've seen
And you and all that you've seen
Bring back the bodies and open them for me
Lift out their shimmering hearts in the morning
Bring back the yellow and black of the ocean
Let me out slowly and sing to me coldly
Bring back the yellow and black of the bodies
Let me in slowly and string me up sensitively