Phillip Jackson - Three Sticks - didgeridoo

It's a shame that the YouTube processing cannot deal with the sound of a real didgeridoo. I've tried several versions but the replay causes some ugly artefacts at the low end, especially in the slow part at the top. Pity...

Anyway, so I walked out to get some smokes one day about 10 years ago, and just when I was half-way through the alley between Brighton's Jew Street and Bond Street I was hit by this awesome sound; a drone so low I could feel it coming up my legs at one point. That's when I met Phillip Jackson, non-native Australian digeridoo artists extraordinaire, crouched on the pavement, hat-at-the-ready for the lunch crowd. I had never heard the didg played like that, and I still haven't to this day.

It was still early so I immediately invited him in for a cup of coffee and he played me some of the stuff for the cd he was working on. He told me about his travels and how he'd meet people and made recordings of their collaboration, if worthwile. The results were really impressive.

And so there he was in Brighton. Having followed the scent of a woman, was this the end of the road for him? Whatever the answer to that, his album -- 'Indidjination' -- was almost complete and one of the things still missing was a piece of just him solo. To cut a long story sideways, I offered to help him in return for some samples and we had a deal.

The result was 'Three Sticks', of which this is my, shorter, cut. It turned out to be a great challenge because in the hands of a master the tone of the didgeridoo reaches into parts of the spectrum where we rarely venture and I wanted it to sound as natural as possible.

Thing is, the didg drone is not a sound it's an event and there is no way to capture the experience of a bass drone travelling through concrete, up the legs of a chair, right through one's scrotum and up and down the spine and all the way back again, round and round. The whole building became part of the instrument it seemed. Absolutely amazing!

Ninth upload of a series of audio collages and demos created between the Summer of 1998 and the Spring of 2000 in the New Music Studios--my place, then, at 11 Jew Street, Brighton, England. --- DvN

This recording © David van Noortwijk 1999

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[Tejo32]

I´m right with you that this is amazing astroscribe! i´ve just fall in love!! I was looking for some bases for playing my hang and I didn´t find anything comparable!!