Digital Pill – working musicians talk about their lives

I’m off to India for a little while to study yoga. Hence the ostentatious yogi pic below. My nephew said: “Now that’s Ninja.” The site will continue while I’m away as I have a few prerecorded videos in the bag, look out for the songwriting video from Joe Dolce mid September.
For anyone in Melbourne, this [...]

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 & [...]

On Saturday November 28th 9-10.30pm Louie Prez will be launching SCAM in a global live streaming event, broadcast from the Dog Theatre in Footscray Australia as part of the Big West Festival. In conjunction with Digital Pill and supported by Maribyrnong City Council, the trio will present music from their new album. Come to the [...]

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 [...]

Bec Matthews playing the Kora (West African harp) and singing the song Utopia.
She has also appeared previously on this post playing with AfroMandinko

Click > HERE < to download a pdf of the lyrics
Listen to Bec’s music here
On Myspace
Afro Mandinko website
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Two new site improvements
1. Digital Pill will now be uploading video in High Definition – see the most recent post from Dave Evans.
2. There is a new page of statistics that outline the proportion of local content in the newspapers as opposed to music from elsewhere. Its updated weekly. Its is the menu as Statistics
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Saltwater Sax at the Paris Cat playing a tune – Walking in the Moonlight – by Martha Baartz (on alto). In the group she plays with Tony Hicks on tenor, Leo Dale on alto and Paul Williamson on baritone. On this occasion they also appeared with Sonja Horbelt on drums.

Tony Hicks (on tenor, far left [...]

Maribyrnong City Council has now also come onboard as a backer for Digital Pill. With their help and Arts Victoria we now have the funding to produce 26 posts in the 09/10 year.
The fun starts July 1st. Let me know what you want to see.
Thanks
Leo
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Today I received a letter telling me that Digital Pill has received some funding from ARTS VICTORIA for the 09/10 year. This means that the pilot phase of this site has now ended and I have some support to post once a fortnight beginning July 1st. The funding also includes money for an illustrator/graphic artist [...]