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Re: complexity and speed
Fri, February 29, 2008 - 9:33 AMhe played at JT the first year at the new site. He plays mostly on slide didge (didjbone) which I find kinda strange but then again it really drives home the fact that the player is much more important than the instrument. Si Mullaby(sp?) of Wild Marmalade is another super fast player that's performed at JT. And Tom Fronza of drum and didge was also all about fast. I like Ondrejs approach to fast in which it's still all about being relaxed. I also like what Jeremy Donovan said about didjeridu representing heartbeat and that if your heart was to beat that fast that long you'd be headed to the morgue before long. Jeremy felt that the European festivals were all about the ego's of the performers as to how fast or technical they could play with little to no regard for the spirit or soul of the instrument. I see some of that here too. -
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Re: complexity and speed
Fri, February 29, 2008 - 2:02 PMhey great. i've searched for mike jackson on utube before but every time i just got old wacko jacko hits - who's bad??
i think mike is another far out didge player that really shows how dynamic the didge is. when he cranks it up he really gets some unreal sounds out of the instrument.
true, he's behind the mike cd is not one i'd put on repeat, but nontheless - it's a classic in my opinion.
tnx for the link
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Re: complexity and speed
Sat, March 1, 2008 - 8:12 AM"A" for technical proficiency.
He's doing some very cool stuff, but this clip, at least, doesn't hit me emotionally. I'd like to hear more of what he does.
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Re: complexity and speed
Sat, March 1, 2008 - 11:45 AMLAOutback has some sound samples of his "Behind The Mike" solo didgeridoo album:
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Re: complexity and speed
Sun, March 2, 2008 - 4:23 PMWhere is he from? There is very little info I can find about him. -
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Re: complexity and speed
Mon, March 3, 2008 - 5:12 AMhe is australian
i know he is pretty popular amongst the dutch and flemish didgeplayers. i bought his behind the mike cd in amsterdam at the abo arts shop there.
he's been playing for probably about 15 years now. he does some amazing stuff with the didgeribone, that chad mentioned earlier. plays long toots on it and slides it into different tones - really giving it a mystic sound - like some ancient horn instrument - very nice :)
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Re: complexity and speed
Mon, March 3, 2008 - 6:23 AMFrom looking at ther youtube clip it looks like he is studing Smeykal a little. I would not be surprised to see some other pro-didgers doing the solo didgeridoo Smeykal thing. It would be funny if you start to see bandwagon of solo didgeridoo smeykal clones. If it sells CDs and downloads then I don't blaime them. -
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Re: complexity and speed
Mon, March 3, 2008 - 7:35 AMi don't think so todd. mike's style is really different to smeykal's. maybe on this one clip you get some kind of similarity - more by the speed and precision, but mike generally focuses on fast acoustic beats. they're both pioneers that's for sure, and perhaps they inspire each other, but i have both smeykals solo cds and mikes behind the mike cd, and they are very different. besides, they grew up and live basically on opposite sides of the globe so to speak and i doubt that both there 15 years of playing influenced each other to such an extent that we could say that this one copies that one or whatever.
anyway, they both rock and i would love to be able to copy them :::) -
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Re: complexity and speed
Mon, March 3, 2008 - 8:16 AMHell I would give my left nut to play like them too!
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