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Artist:
Rogers, Bruce
Title:
Cloudhands
Genre:
Non-traditional Didjeridu
Musicians:
| Musician | Instruments |
|---|---|
| Bruce Rogers | didjeridu |
| David Brown | shakuhachi |
| Dean Frenkel | vocals |
| Linda Laasi | vocals |
Format:
CD, Playing time --:-- minutes
Track List:
Publisher No.:
(1997) publisher not known - number not known
Comments:
Everything about this recording feels deliciously familiar. It looks like an old friend that you haven't seen for a long while and the music follows on this theme. Like most cleverly composed 'solo' albums, Bruce has been supported by some exceptional musicians, adding colour and texture to some savage Didj playing. The tracks range from the pumping 'Pompeii' and 'Skyline' to the more serene 'Mistral' and 'Desert Song'. There are two tracks that stand out for me on the album - the freaky 'Inner Open Spaces' and the sublime 'Eagle Song'. 'Inner open....' has some wild harmonic (read 'demonic' in some spots!) vocalisations provided by Dean Frenkel and Linda Laasi. The overall texture of this track is 'right on the edge' with some of the pitching between the voice and Didj taking us into the eerie realms of dissonance and the rolling harmonic 'whistles' provide a strange melody that soars over the muddle of low frequencies. It works well. 'Eagle Song' is supported by David Brown on Shakuhachi and the free-form melody soaring with the breathy Didj leaves you yearning for more - this track should have been fifteen minutes long! Like Bruce's phyical art (Didjeridus), this album is neat, easy to be with and well finished.
Reviewer: Scot Gardner didge.net
Bruce has recently returned from an European Didjeri-sojourn teaching and selling instuments across the continent to finally release in Australia the CD that was completed just before he took off - 'Cloudhands'.
Everything about this recording feels deliciously familiar. It looks like an old friend that you haven't seen for a long while and the music follows on this theme. Like most cleverly composed 'solo' albums, Bruce has been supported by some exceptional musicians, adding colour and texture to some savage Didj playing. The tracks range from the pumping 'Pompeii' and 'Skyline' to the more serene 'Mistral' and 'Desert Song'. There are two tracks that stand out for me on the album - the freaky 'Inner Open Spaces' and the sublime 'Eagle Song'.
'Inner open....' has some wild harmonic (read 'demonic' in some spots!) vocalisations provided by Dean Frenkel and Linda Laasi. The overall texture of this track is 'right on the edge' with some of the pitching between the voice and Didj taking us into the eerie realms of dissonance and the rolling harmonic 'whistles' provide a strange melody that soars over the muddle of low frequencies . It works well. 'Eagle Song' is supported by David Brown on Shakuhachi and the free-form melody soaring with the breathy Didj leaves you yearning for more - this track should have been fifteen minutes long ! Like Bruce's physical art (Didjeridus), this album is neat, easy to be with and well finished.
Reviewer: Scot Gardner didge.net