Fate is a ironic, humorous, romantic and knowing reality. Today's gift from fate was brought to me by the universal language of the interweb!
Many months ago when my life long dreams were finally jumping full step into fruition - it seems so were someone else's.
Initially when I had finally narrowed down exactly what the shop was going to be, and found Sylvia to serve as the store front, I had to come up with a name for the business... which is easier said than done!
A long time favorite was "Birds of a Feather" - but that was already out there in multiple forms. "Local Yokels" was Bryan's choice; boy oh boy was he defeated when we found this killer local site already in existence http://www.localyokel.ca home to a Canadian Maritime collection of earth-friendly small-scale businesses. (*note to self, I must make friends).
Our friend Lee took the name to the next step with "Locals Only". We thought that perhaps this name was a little too edgy... we didn't want to come off as elitist or anything. I went online and tried out various language converters... for days I typed in adjectives until it hit me - the perfect name of course would be Fulka Art!
Now according to good ol' wiki fulka means:
The English word Folk is derived from a Germanic noun, *fulka meaning "people" or "army". The word became colloquialized (usually in the plural folks) in English in the sense "people", and was considered unelegant by the beginning of the 19th century. It re-entered academic English through the invention of the word folklore in 1846 by the antiquarian William J. Thoms (1803–85) as an Anglo-Saxonism. This word revived folk in a modern sense of "of the common people, whose culture is handed down orally", and opened up a flood of compound formations, e.g. folk art (1921), folk-hero (1899), folk-medicine (1898),folk-tale (1891), folk-song (1847), folk-dance (1912). Folk-music is from 1889; in reference to the branch of modern popular music (associated with Greenwich Village in New York City) here it dates from 1958. It is also regional music.
Fulka Art! It makes sense right?
Brilliant I thought... then I googled it and nothing came up... at first... but a few weeks later I thought I should check again and this time sure enough I found a "Coming Soon - Fulka" page - a really freakin' awesome page at that!
It was the graphic of a woodgrain patterned deer that hit me in the gut with "I don't know you but I already love you!"
But... damn it... now I was back at the drawing board... plus my business counselor added that "fulka" might sound too close to something else (drop an "a" and you get the f-word in a Nova Scotian accent) it would no doubt be rejected by the powers that be in the good ol' government offices. After a while I realized I had known the name all along. Ever since my prolific dream the night before I found Silver Sue (now that's a story for another day), I began recalling it as the "Flying Cloud" dream. One day I stopped short with a "duh!" and I knew I had my name... Flying Cloud Boutique!
This morning I decided to check back in on the Fulka site and find out just who they were?
Wow, what a very nice surprise!
Here's a snip-it from the Fulka Website and Facebook pages:
Fulka is the stage and recording name of folktronica singer-song writer Ola Kobak from Pretoria, South Africa.
Fulka have been performing live since the 25th of February 2010 when the band was invited to play their first live show as the opening act for Dear Reader at the Rustic Theatre in Lonehill, JHB.
Alongside Ola is a very veritable army of talent that includes her husband, well known electro maestro Jacob Israel, layering the drum beats, vintage synthesizers and production; multi- instrumentalist Corné Roodt, playing anything from piano to bass, drums, accordion and banjo; Christian Henn, whom the group describe as a kind of ‘song construction engineer’ and Jean-Louise Nel whom captivates with her backing vocals and viola.
Other artist featured on the album include progressive trumpeter Marcus Wyatt and Janus van der Merweand Ola’s father, Speedy Kobak, who has been sessioning as a trombone player for many bands including Lucky Dube, Natalie Cole and Johnny Clegg.
Pretty freaking awesome right? The tune "Dancing in our Darkest Days" is definitely now on the soundtrack to my life - absolutely!
If you're interested to find out what all this fuss is about and want to learn more about Ola and her tribe of musicians then check out http://fulka.co.za and dance your afternoon away to the goodness of her streaming audio!
Oh fate, thank you once again for being wonderful you, always bringing me sunshine, even on the grayest days.
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