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the Spirit Out ~ Si
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This didg Cd is didg alive ~ culture alive. Not rehashed or imitating
culture or harking for cultures past, but music and rhythm alive
with creativity. A high percentage of didg Cd's use an
extreme amount of dubbing layering and other instruments are
mostly added again as a layer. What you get with Si is
reality and definately individuality. Like his first CD many
of the recordings are alive and most of the others are a jam
not created on a desk. This CD is full of a variety of
instruments, song and sounds, with didg as the base in the
same way that didg was the base for song and dance in
indigenous culture. In this way its real didg. Because of this, some
times you'd like to hear the didg a bit more, amongst the music on some
tracks, but a great CD for the didg fanatic or for the modern
tribal traveller. Theres enough lead didg to wet
your appetite and listen carefully to his playing style, incredibly
fast, tongue lip moves and sometimes it sounds like something put
together on a mixing desk. Listen closely. He also uses it
in song form on at least one track. I can't wait for his
first didg only CD, so I can more fully drink in the rhythms.
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"Ash Dust & Dirt" ~Ash
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Ash Dargin is someone to keep track of. If you can keep up with him. You
can feel it in his playing. This guy has spirit, chi, life force and it
exudes when he pumps out a rhythm and gets it cracking.
Theres ease in the way he plays fast, that speaks of a class player.
This is a professional recording, a pleasure to listen to.
Driving rhythms, intricate tongue work and lots of inspiration for the
didg player. Ash a descendant of the Larrilia tribe from Darwin,
Northern Territory is prolific and has put out more than 20 CD's and has
been involved in many other world music recordings.
A great CD for the collection.
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"Bloodwood" ~ Alan Dargin |
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Bloodwood is
THE CD that so many over
the last decade were compared to, and judged against. Many
Bloodwood clones followed. I say that lovingly, and simply to highlight
the impact I reckon this had in didg communities. It was a source of
inspiration. Virtuoso Didj~ Track1 indicated how
fast a didg could be played and Dargin became the man to match, whether
folk admitted it or not. This track laid down the gauntlett.
By joining with Michael Atherton, a respected multi musician and
taking advantage of the best recording facilities available, they
put down some varied tracks with didg played in styles not
represented before on CD. Another glove was laid down and so many
CD's followed showing all the ways that didg could be played
with different instruments. This is a didg CD for the
collector.
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"Spirit Dreams"~ Ash Dargin |
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This Cd is not an Ash Dargin CD as such. Its produced
by Indigenous Australia P/L and Ash is the didg player. It is one of those classic
background tribal new age CD's , but a very good one. In
fact my favorite at the moment. Its nice in the background or up loud
. Didg is very prominant, probably why I like it. This I play it a fair
bit and have given away a couple as gifts lately.
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"Yigi Yigi"~David Hudson |
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David's a class didg player and a class fella. To
catch him performing is a treat. Apart from being a brilliant didg
player he plays guitar, sings, and is a comedian without trying. One of
the original members of the Tjapukai Dance troup in North Queensland,
this launched his didg and dance into the public arena. Just
checking his big smile on the front cover of Yigi Yigi, you get a vibe
about the guy.Yigi
Yigi is the name for didg from his tribe in North Queensland. This
CD is just Yigi Yigi, and David displays such a range of what Yigi
Yigi can produce sound and rhythm wise. Driving and varied
rhythms, great sound effects, if your after a CD with just didg
this is a beauty.
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"Innersense"~ Si |
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Innersense
is trance didg played as it happened
;mostly in performing
situations, unrehearsed didg with other instruments accompanying...it grows and grows
on you.
Check out Si's latest, above.
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"Playing in Tongues"~ Axis
( Mike Edwards & Mike
Jackson ) |
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CHOICE. Put the Cd on and straight away your on a rhythmic
roll, pumping along at a great pace and with rich punctuations and cross
rhythms that keep you right there. Or onto a slower second track
undescored by strong rhythm. Track threepowers on with fast tongue
and vocal work. Keep it coming.Theres variety packed into this CD
and a rich and confident didg gift to the listener. Mike and Mike
hung out a heap with Charlie McMahon from "Gondwandaland" and slide didg
fame ( the guy who popularised the didg bone or slide didg) over the
years and they have the same nack for musical timing and
confidence and a strong respect for the foundation, rhythm. A top
CD, a ton of inspiration.
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"Didgeralia"~David Hudson |
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Didgeralia as the intro sais, is a
textured musical creation of percussion with the ageless didgeridoo,
creating rhythms and tempos that will enrich and elighten. David uses
drums, boomerangs, shakers and clap sticks as percussive
support to his rhytmic playing. He aslo uses the slide didg
in a couple of tracks and amidst his playing lots of overtones and vocal
soundings. The CD is mixed in a way that the didg is not lost as
happens in some CDs where other instruments are used. A
great CD , highly recommend.
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"Djalu Teaches and Plays
Yidaki"~ Djalu |
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"Djalu teaches and plays Yidaki" is a must have Cd. for
every didg passionate player . Its roots through and through.
After spending a week with the fella last year, I can say its its no
different than sitting with him. Djalu introduces and talks in his
lingo. In the CD, English is pretty well non excistant which is
frustrating when you'd like to know more about the tracks and what his
playing about . He can use english but Yolngu is so different in all its
nuances so its hard for him to get across exactly what he means.
So I reckon listening to him speak Yolngu or play yidaki , I find is
great, as it asks me to feel not think. With 99 tracks theres a
heap of rhythms to listen to and a life time of practice it inspires.
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"Resonance"~Jeremy
Cloakes & Ken Sands |
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A very polished CD. Intricate playing fast
rhythms, this CD is inspiration loaded. With each track beginning to end
they take the listener ona journey with intent. Jeremy and Ken
have spent much time honing their rhythms in Arnhem Land
and across Australia as they travelled widely on their didg droning.
This Cd reflects on that journey. Jeremy sent me a CD to check
out, many moons back. I was immediately struck by it. I havn't
a stock of his CD's at present but I will be getting some. Choice.
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"Termite Grooves"~Ganga Giri |
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Ganga is one didg fella to catch live and if you can't,
well get to and get one of his CD's. Gangas presence as a player,
performer and downright good fella is infectous. He shares his love of
life in his music and his antics. His fast , rhythmic and dynamic style
of didg playing has taken him full on into the dance and techno
scene with didg big time and in a modern world he takes folk into
altered states with all the presence of a modern shaman. And whilst
right out there in techno and dance land he has also played for
years in a world music band Dia Singh and is equally as
comfortable,jamming along with other musos or other cultures music.
This CD is a great cross section of Ganga and his didging.
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"Animal Medicine Music"~Dr
Didg,Tarshito & Ray Brown |
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Classic CD this one. By using animal sounds
singularly or looped, and the didg doing animal sounds
amidst its rhythmic base; imitating, kookaburra frog , dingo or owl to
name a few, and then adding in drums and other percussive instruments,
flute, song and sounds with an intent to make this a rhythmic feast, and
you have one classic CD. We have it on in the shop a heap. Anthiam
reckons she notices it bringing people in of the street. Its fully
individual, take the Kookaburra track that has people laughing in
the background used as well as didg and kookaburra doing the
laughing. And each track flows one into the other as the drums
didg and flute keeps life pumping along. Its rich, juicy and right
out there.
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"Naked Didg"~ Dr Didg |
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Dr Didg's is didg by itself -naked -
going through every note and expressing their different qualities . Its
all focused around the healing qualities of the different notes, the
chakras they relate to, chakra colour and how that relates personally in our life.
Naked didg in Dr Didgs words is inspired by the creative forces of the
rainbow serpent. By using different keys from Low A ~earth Chakra to the
crown chakra High B we open our vibrational frequency centres.
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"Dance of Life"~ Scot Gardner |
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Scots's is so enjoyable in the background or turned up ,it can be meditative and dancy,
didg and flute ,bird sounds ,guitar and some drumming and toning-we've had
his CD for years and its still played over and over.
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"Didjeridu
Master"~David Blanasi |
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A friend loaned me this Cd and I have it
on my to buy list. Classic traditional didg from the fella whose name
goes along with Didg like Djalus does. Songmen David Yirindilli and
Jackie Nawilill give it even more ground with song and
clapsticks and all the juice that make didg come fully alive.This
fella has been popular in the way Djalu is now for many
decades, he'sd travelled the globe several times and like Djalu is
stilla traditional man at heart. A great Cd for the collection.
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