DdV3 here interpreting Garoto’s samba complete with solos and variations absorbed by osmosis from various sources; an example of tradition meets modernity that is surely the legacy of Garoto’s contribition to the guitar repertoire of the world. More gems and rough diamonds from the fount of music sundial coming. DdV
Video production by Third eye videos
April 11, 2012
In a world that goes from 0 to 60 in 2 seconds, Leo Dale joins forces with some of Australia’s finest musicians – Ray Pereira, Doug de Vries and Zvi Belling to sing about the pace of change. On a bed of Afro Brazilian rhythm.
So how did they make the video?
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February 13, 2012
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When I was in India a couple of times last year, I caught up with my old friend from Melbourne – Simon Hewitt. In October, I recorded an EP for him in Ganeshpuri. Here are a couple of the audio takes that ended up on the release that I managed to video as well.
Leo
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June 25, 2011
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
July 23, 2009
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 church and play to Saint Sara in her shrine … it really touched me and I said to myself one day I will go there … well it happened – 3 years ago I caught a train from Paris down south and went to the Pilgimage of the Gypsies on May the 24th at Saintes Maries de La Mer in the Camargue… it’s a small fishing village south of Arles… Saintes Maries de la Mar is surrounded by fields of pink flamingos, black bulls and white Camargue horses … The bulls are bred for the special bullfighting they have there where the bulls are not killed but a rose is put between their horns and the young men try to snatch it away … many Gypsies have their caravans there and it’s the home of the Gypsy Kings … Every May and October gypsies from all over gather to celebrate the feast of Saint Sara the patroness of gypsies and travellers … The area is a magnificent wetlands and surrounded by mediterranian sea beaches … its a sacred site to the gypsies and on the feast day there is mass celebrated by 7 priests and an archbishop and a procession down to the sea carrying the statue of Saint Sara led by the proud retinue of Camargue Cowboys on the White Camargue horses … after mass the church bells ring out and when you walk into the throng you are surrounded by musicians playing their musics from different countries … over here is flamenco from Spain and there Balkan Brass Band from Rumania and still here organ music of the english travellers … and in that cafe is Manitas Di Plata the legendary guitar master (father of the Gypsy Kings) who I saw on television in the 60′s as a child … I couldnt believe my eyes! Here he was – his white hair cut shoulder length, in his black rap round sunglasses and white linen suit with flashhy shoes … all of 87 years old and holding court in the cafe … it was a real buzz … later when I looked back at the photos I hadn’t realised it but in the crowd watching the musicians play was another great french gypsy musician Titi Robin!
When the pilgrimage procession walks down to the sea with music playing there is an ecstatic feeling as people immerse themselves in the sea as if being baptised by the water made holy by Saint Saras presence and the gypsies wade into the water playing guitars waist deep and singing to the sky … it was unhinged, honest, and beautifully breathtaking! A revelation and a renewal in the beauty of Life even after great sadness …..
and her albums on iTunes Music Store
August 21, 2009
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 & (brief) solo version of a Sunwrae Ensemble work (usually ~30 minutes, for vibes, harp, clarinets/flutes, double bass, lap-steel, percussion), from the Never Stops to Wait album. It’s a journey about time, letting things go, deciphering the crooked ways of life, unraveling naturally.
Have a listen to Rae’s other truly incredible recordings from
Sunwrae Ensemble’s official website
Also
Sunwrae Ensemble on myspace
Sunwrae Ensemble on youtube
December 16, 2010
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
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
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
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
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 – 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
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 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 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 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” 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 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 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
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 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
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
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 [...]
May 13, 2011
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.
May 21, 2011
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
June 2, 2011
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 18, 2012
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
Here’s episode 2 of my side project It has its own website Heads in the Cloud
August 8, 2011
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 29, 2011
Dean explains how to slide effortlessly into the altissimo register of the sax in one long continuously ascending note. Click > HERE < to download a pdf of the lesson Listen to Dean’s music here The Pearly Shells Zydeco Jump The Vanguards
June 28, 2011
Paul Williamson explains the uses of bebop scales in jazz improvisation. In this video, Paul’s first post for Digital Pill, he describes the construction of bebop scales, jazz articulation, the use of a metronome and how bebop scales place the chord tones firmly ON the beat to create an “inside” sound in improvisation. The video [...]
June 27, 2011
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. [...]
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