Any Here Is Home is the first album in the Tasmanian Primitive series: new acoustic guitar recordings made on the fly as I navigate living ‘Unhomed’, transplanting myself from one house-sit to the next, a kind of liminalism in motion. January’s Big Water Country opened the door to musicking again after a long break, and […]
Tasmanian Primitive I: Any Here Is Home (2025) Read More »
Like the eclectic ‘world folk’ flavours of 2023’s Ramshackle Alchemy album, the Cafe Nowhere series (1 – 4) brings together more recordings inspired by music traditions from around the world. This time the tracks have been selected from 23 different albums across my back catalogue of releases since 2005. Converging together at the Cafe Nowhere,
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Ramshackle Alchemy is another collection of music from my past, within my current process of reviewing my life, bidding fond farewell to prior selves, making room for a new me. It is also one of those projects that’s been rearing to go for a goodly while…in fact, Ramshackle Alchemy has been patiently ready almost 15
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The Burn That Ukulele! series is one of several projects that have been idling at the edges for over a decade. I haven’t tended to these projects because they all involve retrospective recordings, and my focus has been on creating (ie inundated by) new material. This year however has opened a very different process, one
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Uke takes a backseat in this new collection of original tunes, mostly-instrumental music influenced by my love of African & AfroCuban rhythms. Danceable organic grooves, hypnotic atmospheres, driven by traditional percussion and a spirit of renewal. New Skin – Bradfield Dumpleton 2017 (Mya Moe ukulele, electric guitars, cello bass, keyboard, cajon, dun dun, lizard sticks,
Pigbox & Co. Vol 1 and Vol 2 are two albums of instrumentals & songs inspired by my metal-bodied resonator ukulele, whom I affectionately named PIGBOX. A ramshackle assortment of gutterblues, loose jazz, americana, folkalisms and lyrical noodlings, accompanied by a variety of other instruments and found sounds. As mentioned in Early Ukelele Explorations (2005
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Beyond all the pop fads & historical derision, the ukulele is a versatile & deeply expressive instrument in it’s own right – simple yet complex, delicate yet certain in its melancholic humour, eloquently humble in a world of noise. After I had explored guitar & percussion on and off for 25 years, ukulele somewhat serendipitously
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In 2003 I spontaneously answered a small hand-drawn ad in MacFie’s Music shop in Nth Hobart, someone looking for interested parties with whom to play guitar music of a Eurofolk bent. It was Luke Yates, a young uni student recently-returned from travels in France, previously an 80s metal guitarist who had an acoustic epiphany while
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Acoustic instrumentals using European mandolin, octave mandola & acoustic guitar, and drawing on exotic flavours such as baroque, the Middle & Near East, rembetika and more. Throughout 2007 I was recovering from a nervous breakdown and in the depths of clinical depression. The music that forms this album helped me examine my profound grief &
A collection of ramshackle field recordings of folk musics from across Spondoolistan…. In between Spondoolies, I was experimenting more with home recording my own material. A few tunes were in Spondoolish territory but didn’t quite fit our repertoire. Some were recording experiments that contained spontaneous improvisations, percussion or editing effects – in other words, not
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“Legends abound as to the origins of the Spondooli Brothers: Born in a guitar case in a Lower Spondoolovitch potato field. Raised by feral goats in the barren foothills of Upper Spondolia. Illegitimate heirs to the throne of the Grand Hoopla of Absurdistan, sold as child slaves to a nomadic circus tribe who trained them
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