Transnoodle
Date Formed: December 2005
Location: Hong Kong
Website: www.myspace.com/transnoodle
Description: Bouncy ska, reggae and latin beats with vibrant brass, thumping basslines and scratchy guitar.
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Underground 63 at Cavern
Genre: Ska/Reggae/Latin
Release Date: 2008
Credits: John - vocal, guitar
Koya - bass
Orlando - trombone
Magnus -drums
Matt - keyboard
Josh - vocal
Description: LINK: http://undergroundhk.com/podcast/u63/U63Transnoodle.mp3
This was a show done at the Cavern that went pretty well. They have a fantastic sound system and engineer so we got this great recording from Underground. A whole show in one file, the best sound quality of any live recording we have. Enjoy!
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Live at Underground 52 @ Club Cixi
Genre: Ska
Release Date: 2008
Credits: Sarah, Sam, Matt, Andy, Kevin, Magnus, John, Josh, Koya
Description: Probably the best show we've ever played, and as close to the full band as we've ever gotten! (it WAS the full band at that time)
| Title | Listen | Download | Descriptions | Lyrics | ||
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| 1. | Port Royal |  | Listen (3:58) | Download (5.7 MB) | Ode to the mercenaries who plundered from this Jamaican pirate town. | |
| 2. | Spicy Island | | Listen (2:46) | Download (3.9 MB) | Cryin' in his curry... poor sod. | |
| 3. | Pohwahyuen | | Listen (3:33) | Download (5.1 MB) | Get thee to a library! Read a book, son. | |
| 4. | Huddersfield | | Listen (4:21) | Download (6.2 MB) | The sun has set on the British Empire but not on British ne'er-do-wells and blackguards like our hero who started off in a pub and ended up Vice-President of a bank. | |
| 5. | Down in the Deli | | Listen (4:16) | Download (6.1 MB) | Dance the week away, forget your troubles. | |
| 6. | I Need a Mormon (Live) | | Listen (4:33) | Download (6.5 MB) | Great live version (finally) of John's song about the benefits of the Christian life. | |
| 7. | Ferry Pier | | Listen (3:50) | Download (5.5 MB) | We really get into the chorus at the end of this one and believe us, playing in the band is what makes us feel alive in the REAL WORLD. | |
| 8. | Hong Kong | | Listen (4:12) | Download (6.0 MB) | A tribute to the Skatalites, featuring the melody line from 'Confucius'. this is the set closer. | |
| 9. | Monkey Magic (cover) | | Listen (3:53) | Download (5.5 MB) | Our first encore was the Cover of the TV theme ... this time for all the Aussies! | |
| 10. | The Journey | | Listen (4:36) | Download (6.6 MB) | We NEVER close with this song since it's kinda heavy subject matter about Khaled El-Masri who was kidnapped into a secret CIA prison... but it was the closer that night. Maybe it was the loudest song we hadn't yet played. |
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Other recordings
Release Date: 2008
Description: Demos and Live stuff was getting too big, so this is where we will put the various studio recordings that are NOT the EP. So the Live albums will just be live albums without any studio tracks.
| Title | Listen | Download | Descriptions | Lyrics | ||
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| 1. | Pohwahyuen (first EP mix) | | Listen (3:48) | Download (5.4 MB) | Thi sis teh first mix off the upcoming Transnoodle EP. We decided NOT to keep this mis because Josh tried this jazzier vocal and decided it sucked later. | |
| 2. | Hong Kong (first EP mix) | | Listen (3:48) | Download (5.4 MB) | First mix of Hong Kong for the upcoming Transnoodle EP. Includes Matt Steele on keyboards! | |
| 3. | Down in the Deli - (first EP mix) | | Listen (3:48) | Download (5.4 MB) | First mix of Down in the Deli for upcoming Transnoodle EP. | |
| 4. | Down in the Deli (Studio Demo) | | Listen (4:16) | Download (6.1 MB) | First studio demo of this song about the woes of the world and how to forget them. Vocal by John Saeki. | |
| 5. | Bury the Harbor (Studio demo) | | Listen (3:14) | Download (4.6 MB) | The first studio recording of this song about building a land bridge between Central and TST! John Saeki does the ragga parts with a lot of piss on this version. | |
| 6. | Black Rain (Studio Demo) | | Listen (3:22) | Download (4.8 MB) | First studio demo of Black Rain, with lead guitar by Andrew Parkinson and vocal segue by John Saeki. | |
| 7. | Ferry Pier (Studio Demo) | | Listen (4:32) | Download (6.5 MB) | First studio recording of Ferry Pier. Don't live to work, work to live, as they say. | |
| 8. | I Need a Mormon (John's Demo) | | Listen (4:01) | Download (4.8 MB) | This is John's demo of a song he wrote after he saw some Mormons hassling an Indonesian girl. It's about going to excess! Yeah! | View Lyrics |
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Fringe Club May 18 2008
Genre: Ska / Reggae / Samba
Release Date: 2008
Description: This was a different set as we played a lot of new songs for the first time.
| Title | Listen | Download | Descriptions | Lyrics | ||
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| 1. | Fu Manchu (cover) | | Listen (9:23) | Download (13.5 MB) | Words to the wise from Desmond Dekker, the reggae pioneer | |
| 2. | Huddersfield | | Listen (4:21) | Download (6.2 MB) | A recent history of Hong Kong through English eyes | |
| 3. | Sham Shui Po | | Listen (4:39) | Download (6.6 MB) | Dedicated to that pop star who videoed himself having sex with Hong Kong's most innocent starlets... | |
| 4. | Bambi | | Listen (5:24) | Download (7.7 MB) | A song written by Josh's wife, about an older guy who returns to the dating scene and tries to explain to a 30-year old woman why she's way too young for him. | |
| 5. | Ferry Pier | | Listen (3:50) | Download (5.5 MB) | After trying out the new song for the first time, it felt like time for an old standard. | |
| 6. | Pousada de Coloane | | Listen (4:56) | Download (7.1 MB) | The best performance of this song yet ... bit noisy on the recording but on fire. | |
| 7. | Port Royal | | Listen (3:58) | Download (5.7 MB) | Set closer for a double-shot of piracy. |
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Transnoodle LIVE @ Fringe Jul 27 2007
Genre: Ska
Release Date: 2008
Credits: Guest players:
Koya Hisakazu - Bass
Joseph Fuego - Trombone
Description: We sort of play ska mixed with punk mixed with latin and African influences. Mostly we just play music for people to dance to.
| Title | Listen | Download | Descriptions | Lyrics | ||
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| 1. | Spicy Island LIVE at Fringe Club July 27 2007 | | Listen (2:40) | Download (3.8 MB) | Since You've gone... I've been missing all the curry that we used to eat... at the spicy island.... | |
| 2. | Ferry Pier b/w Boys Don't Cry LIVE at Fringe Club Jul 27 2007 | | Listen (6:21) | Download (9.1 MB) | Dedicated to those who take a boat to work. And the band that was in town that weekend. | |
| 3. | Poh Wah Yuen LIVE at Fringe Club Jul 27 2007 | | Listen (3:21) | Download (4.8 MB) | The rockingest song about reading ever. | |
| 4. | Monkey Magic (Cover) LIVE at Fringe Jul 27 2007 | | Listen (4:13) | Download (6.0 MB) | Theme from the popular TV show 'Monkey'. | |
| 5. | Down in the Deli LIVE at Fringe Jul 27 2007 | | Listen (4:06) | Download (5.9 MB) | The Deli is a bar on Lamma Island where our guitarist is wont to dance on the tables. | |
| 6. | The Journey LIVE at the Fringe Club Jul 27 2007 | | Listen (4:45) | Download (6.8 MB) | A song about Khaled el-Masri, an Arab German who found out about extraordinary rendition and secret CIA prisons firsthand. | |
| 7. | Hong Kong LIVE at Fringe Jul 27 2007 | | Listen (4:40) | Download (6.7 MB) | Dedicated to the US Navy boys stumbling through the steaming streets of Hong Kong. |
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Underground Feb 9 2007
Genre: Ska/Punk/Latin
Release Date: 2007
| Title | Listen | Download | Descriptions | Lyrics | ||
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| 1. | 01 Down in the Deli LIVE | | Listen (5:37) | Download (8.0 MB) | Featuring Joe Fuego on trombone | |
| 2. | 02 Ferry Pier LIVE | | Listen (5:14) | Download (7.5 MB) | Ode to nonwork pursuits | |
| 3. | 03 Black Rain LIVE | | Listen (3:22) | Download (4.8 MB) | If you have never seen a black rainstorm it really is BLACK. This song also addresses John's fixation with a particular pop star. | |
| 4. | 04 Bury the Harbour LIVE | | Listen (4:02) | Download (5.8 MB) | Our political song for '08 - Land reclamation all the way, baby, Till Hong Kong's not even an island anymore! | |
| 5. | 05 Port Royal LIVE | | Listen (4:14) | Download (6.1 MB) | Written from a scrap of a song devised by Noah Roy and Tom Hughes in the 90s, this rousing paean to pirates and pre-Kingston Jamaica is 13 years in the making. | View Lyrics |
| 6. | 06 Hong Kong LIVE | | Listen (5:20) | Download (7.6 MB) | Dedicated to shore leave | |
| 7. | 07 Pohwahyuen LIVE | | Listen (4:00) | Download (5.7 MB) | A live version of Pohwahyuen with trumpet & trombone |
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Transnoodle LIVE @ Wanch Jan 29 08
Genre: Ska/Reggae/Samba
Release Date: 2008
Description: Two sets of Transnoodle in Hong Kong's legendary rock pub.
| Title | Listen | Download | Descriptions | Lyrics | ||
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| 1. | 1 Port Royal LIVE @ Wanch Jan 29 08 | | Listen (6:14) | Download (8.9 MB) | Set opener about pirates in Jamaica | |
| 2. | 2 Spicy Island LIVE @ Wanch Jan 29 08 | | Listen (2:48) | Download (4.0 MB) | His wife left him and now he hangs out at the same curry shop feeling sorry for himself. | |
| 3. | 3 Hong Kong LIVE @ Wanch Jan 29 08 | | Listen (4:06) | Download (5.9 MB) | A US Navy boy's experiences in Wanchai leave him confused | |
| 4. | 4 Sampan LIVE @ Wanch Jan 29 08 | | Listen (4:00) | Download (5.7 MB) | A woman arranges the transport that will take her away from her lover forever | |
| 5. | 5 Another Weary Sunday LIVE @ Wanch Jan 29 08 | | Listen (3:45) | Download (5.3 MB) | How to escape from the drudgery of the workweek | |
| 6. | 6 The Journey LIVE @ Wanch Jan 29 08 | | Listen (4:24) | Download (6.3 MB) | Khaled al-Masri fights to get back home after being kidnapped and sent to a secret CIA prison. A true story! | |
| 7. | 7 Bury the Harbor LIVE @ Wanch Jan 29 08 | | Listen (4:26) | Download (6.3 MB) | Our 3-word political platform. Dedicated to Christine Loh for all her hard work against turning Victoria Harbour into one big mall. | |
| 8. | 8 Monkey Magic (cover) LIVE @ Wanch Jan 29 08 | | Listen (4:09) | Download (5.9 MB) | Cover of the theme from the cult 70s TV show about Bhuddhism | |
| 9. | 9 Huddersfield LIVE @ Wanch Jan 29 08 | | Listen (4:33) | Download (6.5 MB) | Debut live performance of new song about the trials and triumphs of a British expat in Hong Kong, from Chungking Mansion to the 2004 Tsunami | |
| 10. | 10 Down in the Deli LIVE @ Wanch Jan 29 08 | | Listen (4:15) | Download (6.1 MB) | Forgetting the woes of the world on a tabletop in a bar | |
| 11. | 11 I Need a Mormon LIVE @ Wanch Jan 29 08 | | Listen (4:52) | Download (7.0 MB) | Live recording of John's view of religion's potential to solve your ills | |
| 12. | 12 Ferry Pier LIVE @ Wanch Jan 29 08 | | Listen (5:03) | Download (7.2 MB) | Y'all know Ferry Pier, our sort-of-Ska anthem | |
| 13. | 13 Pohwayuen LIVE @ Wanch Jan 29 08 | | Listen (3:33) | Download (5.1 MB) | Another of our usual suspects... thrill to this song about reading |
-English 
-Mandarin 
-Cantonese 
-Instrumental