Catch My Shoe is an album by Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 anarchist band The Ex. It is the band's first record after the departure of their original vocalist G.W. Sok and features Arnold de Boer, from the band Zea, on vocals, guitar and keyboard. It is also the band's first album recorded without a bass player and has The Ex's two other guitarists trading off duties on lower pitched six-string baritone guitar

Baritone guitar

The baritone guitar is a variation on the standard guitar, with a longer scale length that allows it to be tuned to a lower range. It first appeared in the classical music realm...

s. Two songs contain overdubbed brass

Brass instrument

A brass instrument is a musical instrument whose sound is produced by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips...

 lines recorded by Sicilian

Sicily

Sicily is a region of Italy, and is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. Along with the surrounding minor islands, it constitutes an autonomous region of Italy, the Regione Autonoma Siciliana Sicily has a rich and unique culture, especially with regard to the arts, music, literature,...

 jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 trumpet

Trumpet

The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...

eer Roy Paci

Roy Paci

Rosario Paci is an Italian trumpeter, singer, composer and arranger.-Music and career:Born in Sicily, Paci started playing the piano as a young child and picked up the trumpet at age 10...

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On Catch My Shoe The Ex couple scratchy punk tunes with a display of their love for African music. One track features a guitar line from a 1950s Uganda

Uganda

Uganda , officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. Uganda is also known as the "Pearl of Africa". It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by South Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by...

n harp

Harp

The harp is a multi-stringed instrument which has the plane of its strings positioned perpendicularly to the soundboard. Organologically, it is in the general category of chordophones and has its own sub category . All harps have a neck, resonator and strings...

 player, and another is a cover of a song that the band found on a cassette

Compact Cassette

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 by Ethiopia

Ethiopia

Ethiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...

n singer Mahmoud Ahmed

Mahmoud Ahmed

Mahmoud Ahmed is an Ethiopian singer of Gurage ancestry.-Biography:Born in Addis Ababa, Mahmoud shined shoes in that city before becoming a handyman at the Arizona Club, where he first sang professionally in the early 1960s...

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Track listing

1. "Maybe I Was the Pilot" 5:36
2. "Double Order" 6:20
3. "Cold Weather is Back" 6:32
4. "Bicycle Illusion" 6:48
5. "Eoleyo" 5:45
6. "Tree Float" 5:53
7. "Keep On Walking" 6:05
8. "Life Whining" 3:23
9. "Problems" 7:05

Single and out takes

An alternate version of "Maybe I Was the Pilot" was released as a single without Roy Paci's trumpet work, backed with the non-album track "Our Leaky Homes". An alternate take of "Double Order" was released as a download on The Ex's website in 2009.

Personnel

• Arnold de Boer (vocals, guitar, samples)
• Andy Moor
  Andy Moor (The Ex)
  Andy Moor is an experimental musician, best known as the guitarist of the UK band Dog Faced Hermans and the Dutch punk collective The Ex. He was also a founding member of Kletka Red and along with Isabelle Vigier and Yannis Kyriakides created the experimental music label Unsounds.Moor was born in...
  
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• Terrie Hessels (guitar, baritone guitar)
• Katherina Bornefeld (drums, vocals)
• Roy Paci (trumpet on tracks 1 and 3)