Mark Hannaford piano, Sam Anning double bass and Allan Browne drums playing ‘Darn that dream’ at Bennetts Lane jazz Club Check out their latest CD Shreveport Stomp
June 2, 2011
2011 Melbourne Fringe Jazz Festival APRA Commission Concert – Inform
Fran Swinn’s composition – Inform – for Jazz quartet and acrobat, featuring Eugene Ball – trumpet, Fran Swinn – guitar, Tamara Murphy – double bass, Ben Hendry – drums and Rockie Stone – acrobatics/aerials. Inform is a collection of short pieces written with the rhythm and form of the various circus apparatus in mind and [...]
May 21, 2011
Lamine Sonko sings Lambj
Lamine Sonko singing about the Senegalese traditional wrestling game. The names in the song are the big wrestling champions in Senegal. Pape Moussa Sonko (Lamine’s brother) is mentioned in the song, he is a wrestler and also a very famous dancer. Visit Lamine’s website laminesonko.com
May 13, 2011
Fiona Roake sings How to Sail
Fiona Roake made the trip across the Tasman from New Zealand to Australia in the mid 90s to study theatre. In this song she combines her lifelong love of music and spoken word to capture the feeling of losing your motherland when you call a new place home.
July 23, 2009
Kavisha Mazzella sings Amour
ARIA Award winning musician, singer-song writer, theatre collaborator and choir director Kavisha Mazzella sings her song Amour About this song Kavisha writes I saw a fantastic film by Tony Gatlif in 1996 called Latcho Drom about gypsies and thier music and in it there was a scene where the french gypsy musicians visit the medieval [...]
August 21, 2009
Rae Howell plays Decipher the Crooked Ways
Rae Howell is a freelance composer and performer on piano & vibraphone. She is a founding member of Sunwrae Ensemble, showcasing some of Australia’s finest versatile musicians. Here she plays her piece “Decipher the Crooked Ways” on the vibraphone using a combination of bowing and four mallet technique. Decipher the Crooked Ways…. an ambient & [...]
December 16, 2010
Thanks
I’m off on my annual trip to India to study yoga and recharge for a BIG year in 2011. I’ll be checking email every day, don’t go thinking I’ve disappeared, its the 21st century. Back on board 2nd week of January. Thanks to the incredible team here at Digital Pill – Phil Greenwood for all [...]
October 14, 2009
Tihai: North Indian (Hindustani) classical trio
Girish Makwana was born in Gujurat, India and received his Masters of Music from the Maharajah Sayajirao University of Baroda. Here he performs on tablas with Saby Bhattacharya on sarod and Nicolas Buff on alto saxophone. This performance was filmed at the studios of radio 3CR in Collingwood as part of their ongoing training. Follow [...]
March 24, 2010
Pianist Colin Hopkins lyrically ruminates on the Cosmic Joke…
I’m experimenting with Vimeo. If anyone has problems with it or comments please send me an email Catch pianist Colin Hopkins at home where he uses all his improvisatory skills in an attempt to revive the wooden man – his only remaining audience member (besides the dog) – and finds the job a little more [...]
April 16, 2010
Shannon Barnett plays All and Sun-Dried
Trombonist Shannon Barnett performs “All and Sun-Dried”, a piece inspired by her hatred for the existence of sun-dried tomatoes. The piece is a kind of etude for trombone that makes use of large intervals and odd-meter phrasing. Visit her online myspace.com/shantrom And hear her on these albums The Vampires: “Chellowdene” and “South Coasting” Andrea Keller [...]
May 6, 2011
So what do you do for a crust ?
You know those conversations you have with people about being a musician or artist: questions like – “So How’s the music going?” and “Are you in a band?” Doug DeVries, Anton Delecca, Shannon Barnett, Mal Webb, Anita Hustas, John Fleming, Colin Hopkins and Justin Dwyer got talking about what follows the question – “So what [...]
May 12, 2010
Leo Dale, alto flute – Quiet Music Festival
Leo Dale – playing solo alto flute in the Musing Studio, where the public draw the musician, at the Quiet Music Festival. Its a free improvisation in an Indian classical / jazz fusion style. The scale used is G lydian ( like G major scale with a raised 4th C# ) In a post modern [...]
August 20, 2010
Lisa Young – konnakol rhythms
Vocalist Lisa Young sings and explains examples of konnakol, the spoken rhythms of South Indian music. download the pdf of the Sa Ri Ga rhythms here Visit Lisa’s website And here’s a link to her album Grace (awarded best Australian Jazz Vocal album of the year)
September 20, 2010
Helen Mountfort – solo cello
Helen Mountfort performs Soliloquy a solo ‘cello piece originally written and performed in Swift, a dance piece devised and performed with dancer Ros Warby and designer Margie Medlin. Soliloquy is inspired by and pays homage to the music of extraordinary Armenian composer and duduk player Djivan Gasparyan. Helen writes music for film, dance and theatre [...]
November 1, 2010
Doug de Vries plays Lamentos do morro
Doug performs ‘Lamentos do morro’ by Garoto, a samba on his 7-string guitar. Visit Doug on these links His website dougdevries.com Doug’s albums on iTunes
December 8, 2010
Carl Pannuzzo and Penny Larkins
Carl Pannuzzo and Penny Larkins perform the song – The Painting – at home in their kitchen Visit their website Have a listen to Carl’s album – Hayfever – on iTunes
December 18, 2010
Tinpan Orange performing – Saudades
Tinpan Orange performing “Saudades” at the Quiet Music Festival 2010. Emily Lubitz – vocal and guitar, Jesse Lubitz- guitar and Alex Burkoy – violin with Harry Angus on keyboard (off camera) You can visit their website tinpanorange.com and buy this song on iTunes
February 14, 2011
Valanga Khoza
Valanga Khoza at home singing and playing the Kalimba (thumb piano) Listen to more of Valanga playing kalimba and singing on iTunes
February 18, 2011
Julia Messenger sings Telepathy
Julia Messenger sings Telepathy in her studio in Melbourne accompanied on piano by Mark Fitzgibbon. This is an acoustic version of the song that appears on her album “Productions & Collaborations”. Downtempo and Jazzy. She connects telepathically with her lover to find out he’s with someone else – but she doesn’t care. Visit Julia online [...]
March 31, 2011
Invention in Time
Kate and Adam and Ariel Valent, together known as Invention in Time, perform Fast Giraffe from their latest CD Falling by Design. Played on marimba (wooden) and vibraphone (metal) this piece is one of the duo’s more jazzy, up-beat original compositions. Visit them online on Myspace Buy the CD The album is also available on [...]
April 12, 2011
David Bridie – The Centre Cannot Hold
David Bridie sings The Centre Cannot Hold from the Fiasco album by My Friend the Chocolate Cake. David says of this song – From the W B yeats poem..”things fall apart, the centre cannot hold”..a war reflection..pretty simple tune, just blocked piano and droning strings … listened to Robert Wyatt’s “stalingrad” off “nothing can stop [...]
April 29, 2011
Paul Williamson at Mario’s Cafe 25th BD
Marios Cafe marked 25 years of serving the arts community last night with an all star band in front of a large crowd at the Fitzroy Town Hall. I’ve posted this short clip of Paul Williamson blowing all the cobwebs away. Have a look at his very popular sax lesson for Digital Pill here Thanks [...]
May 5, 2011
Mikelangelo sings The Masquerade
Life is a masquerade my dear, would you like to come to the ball? Mikelangelo has spent many years touring the globe with his acclaimed Kabaret Noir ensemble The Black Sea Gentlemen and with Olivier award winning contemporary circus/vaudeville show La Clique. He now lives in Melbourne, where he continues to work solo and with [...]
February 4, 2012
A list of the gear I use to shoot these videos
I was at NMIT today talking to the music students about how to make good videos to go with their music and someone asked me to post a list of all the equipment I use and recommend for shooting videos. For more info on making videos, be sure to check out the excellent site about [...]
August 18, 2011
Heads in the Cloud – Episode 2
Here’s episode 2 of my side project It has its own website Heads in the Cloud
August 8, 2011
Heads in the Cloud – Episode 1
I’ve been busy working on this new show Heads in the Cloud for the last month. Its a little outside the Digital Pill box but I’ve posted it here for anyone who might be entertained by Episode 1. Now that we have it up and running I’ll have more time to devote to Digital Pill [...]
June 27, 2011
Accordion: bellows shake (Dave Evans)
Dave Evans explains the uses of the accordion bellows shake. In this video, Dave describes the uses of the double and triple bellows shake in jazz, zydeco and cabaret music. He includes detailed instructions about how to perform the shake as well as techniques for adding accents to play with the rhythmic aspects of accordion. [...]
June 17, 2011
Heads in the Cloud teaser
Heads in the Cloud is a new internet based TV show from Leo Dale, Ross Daniels and Phil Greenwood that begins in mid July. In 4 episodes filmed at Footscray Arts Centre they will answering questions, talking about the speed of change in Arts, Climate, Politics, Technology and Society and generally throwing the cat amongst [...]
June 17, 2011
500,000 hits, a side project, future plans
The hit counter just clicked over to 500,013 so I figure its time to say thanks and talk about what comes next. Its interesting to note that half of that traffic has come from the sax lessons on the site. So firstly I’d like to say THERE ARE MORE coming, starting with a few I’ve [...]
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