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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