Amazon.com A member of the Tjapukai tribe in northern Queensland, Australia, didgeridoo player David Hudson has once again teamed with producer and ambient artist Steve Roach to create his fourth album, Gunyal. The title refers to a giant, prehistoric reptile whose mythic story has passed orally through aboriginal generations. Known to Australian aborigines as goannas, these reptiles existed some 20,000 years ago, according to archaeologists, and it's this kind of transcendent connection to an ancient past that spills through on Gunyal. Listeners will find their imagination swept into the Australian outback as soon as they push the "play" button. Sounds of the deep, rolling didgeridoo drone over rhythms created by click sticks, boomerang clap sticks, and rocks. While Rainbow Serpent and Woolunda: Ten Solos for Didgeridoo were more stark representations of the didgeridoo, Gunyal travels more profoundly into the aboriginal soul with Roach's ethereal crescendos and atmosphere. While plenty of CDs thickly embellish the didg with electronics or modern grooves, Gunyal relies on the simplicity of tradition and the subtle trimmings of ambient sound. --Karen Karleski Product Description Gunyal by David Hudson About the Artist Australian Aboriginal artist David Hudson is a world-renowned pioneer of the art of the didjeridu. A member of the Tjapukai tribe in Kuranda, northern Queensland, he mastered the didjeridu and interpretive dances of his tribe at an early age. Armed with a profound understanding of the didjeridu, he possesses an exceptional talent of spontaneously creating/performing multi-leveled compositions, as evidenced in his first solo recording, the highly acclaimed Woolunda: Ten Solos for Didgeridoo. It is regarded by many experts as a ground-breaking experiment in the creative possibilities of the didjeridu. His other recordings for Celestial Harmonies/Black Sun Music include Rainbow Serpent, The Art of the Didjeridu: Selected Pieces 1987-1997, and The Sound of Gondwana: 176,000 Years in the Making with Alan Dargin, Mark Atkins and Matthew Doyle. Known primarily for his traditional styles and use of the traditional technique of circular breathing, Hudson is credited for taking the art form to a new level through an innovative combination of extended techniques and modern compositional ideas. So much so, his inventive use of voice, space and explosive blasts of sound have sometimes more in common with 20th century avant-garde music than ancestral Aboriginal music. Teamed with longtime collaborator and producer Steve Roach, the two have written an array of seamlessly organic compositions, creating Hudson's most subterranean and textural release to date. Hudson features various self-made didjeridus, click sticks and boomerang clapsticks. Roach accompanies with assorted percussion and rocks, and provides a constant flow of dreamtime soundworlds.ASIN: B0000066T4VSKU: GGV.B0000066T4.LNCondition: Like NewAuthor/Artist:David HudsonBinding: Audio cd
