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The Story of Harmelodia

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Released
  
1999

Release date
  
1999

Genre
  
Indie rock

Artist
  
Rheostatics

Label
  
Perimeter Records

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The Story of Harmelodia (1999)
  
Night of the Shooting Stars (2001)

Nominations
  
Juno Award for Recording Package of the Year

Similar
  
Rheostatics albums, Indie rock albums

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The Story of Harmelodia is a 1999 album by Rheostatics.

Contents

Billed as a children's album, the album is a narrative detailing the adventures of Dot and Bug, two children from the land of Harmelodia who fall through a hole (as in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) into the land of Popopolis. In Harmelodia, the children attend weekly lessons where they learn highly regimented music, but in Popopolis, they learn to make music using their own creativity on fantastical instruments such as the "wingophone".

The album is based on a story by Dave Bidini, and is packaged in a book containing Bidini's text with illustrations by Martin Tielli. Narration on the album is by Bidini's wife, Janet Morassutti.

A different version of "Song of the Garden" was recorded for the band's 2001 album Night of the Shooting Stars.

Guest musicians on the album include Sarah Harmer, Kurt Swinghammer, Mia Sheard and Kevin Hearn. It is also the only Rheostatics album which includes a songwriting credit for Don Kerr, the band's drummer from 1995 to 2001.

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Track listing

All songs and narration credited to Dave Bidini, except where noted.

  1. "The Harmelodian Anthem"
  2. "Dot and Bug in the Street"
  3. "I Fab Thee" (Martin Tielli)
  4. "It's Easy to be With You"
  5. "Monkeybird" (Kevin Hearn)
  6. "The Descent into Popopolis"
  7. "Invisible Stairs" (Tim Vesely)
  8. "Popopolis"
  9. "I Am Drumstein"
  10. "The Music Room" (Vesely)
  11. "Dot Tries the Wingophone" (Hearn)
  12. "Wingophone" (Hearn)
  13. "Bug's Song (The Sky Dreamed)"
  14. "Loving Arms" (Vesely)
  15. "Father Mourns, Drumstein Schemes"
  16. "The Bee Sky Opus in Magenta (Dr. Drumstein)"
  17. "Father's Sad Song" (Don Kerr, Gordon Downie)
  18. "Home Again" (Tielli)
  19. "Dot and Bug Pop out of the Earth"
  20. "Song of the Garden" (Dave Merritt, Mike Bonnell)

Songs

1The Harmelodian Anthem2:46
2Dot and Bug in the street1:45
3I Fab Thee2:11

References

The Story of Harmelodia Wikipedia
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