Month: February 2020

Tiny Desk 2020

Electric Earth Music

I recorded this little piece about a week ago as my submission to NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest.

I got used to playing this snail didge in Europe last summer and I really like it.  Full-sized didgeridoos can be quite unwieldy in live performance, as well as travel, but this one sounds great, and feels great in my hands.  I hope you like the sound of it as well, because I’d love to play at your next event.  I’m currently booking shows for this summer, and preparing to release a new album (or two) in the near future.

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Blue Bovine Ballet

Electric Earth Music

I know it’s been pretty quiet here lately, but I’ve been working on a lot of new material that I’m really excited about.  To start, here’s a new music video even cows can dance to, Blue Bovine Ballet, featuring didgeridoo, instruments made from recycled materials and Norwegian dairy cows.  I hope you’ll check in regularly over the coming weeks and months because I’ll release more high energy didgeridoo trance dance grooves, drone music, and new compositions for the Orchestra of the Unwanted soon.

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Live Electric Didgeridoo at Les Combarelles, Les Eyzies, France

Electric Earth Music

Les Eyzies, France has been continuously occupied by human beings for more than 30,000 years, and it is home to some of the earliest known masterpieces of prehistoric art.  One of the oldest musical instruments ever discovered, a bull roarer, was found in a cave near Les Eyzies.  Today, most people associate the bull roarer with Australian aboriginal culture, but it has been used all over the world, and is part of our European heritage as well.

Although no didgeridoos have been found in Europe’s ancient art caves, evidence suggests that people played didgeridoo-like instruments in prehistoric Europe.  The “Dord Isael,” a bronze-age didgeridoo-like instrument, was unearthed in Ireland, and the “Lur” a Viking didgeridoo-like instrument found in Scandinavia probably share a common didgeridoo-like ancestor with modern brass instruments like the trumpet or trombone.  A wooden didgeridoo would almost certainly not have survived the eons, just as no drums have…

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