album:The Message Stick genre:Native US streams:76 creation date:2008-09-14
09/21/10 09:37:13AM @cooter:
Wonderful! What a soothing sound. Nicely played and recorded. It feels good.
01/10/10 05:13:37PM @genghisken:
Absolutely beautiful! Great breath control on the flute, perfect choice of soundscapes to compliment the haunting flute. I wish it was longer but then, sometimes a little goes a long way!!
11/29/08 10:19:24AM @mark-reed:
Short, but sometimes you only need a few notes to get the feeling across. This does just that in a very magical way. superb piece well done
09/15/08 09:17:37PM @the-ratman:
A Fan for sure, your music is so weel de but short here, whats up? Love it! The RatMan!
09/14/08 06:50:56PM @dazed:
beautiful piece but wish it was longer! amazing.
09/15/08 04:25:06AM @ab2:
After listening to one of yours I decided to listen to another...That must be the sign of good music..
This one is so very pure....every note precise and beautifully placed, much, much too short... but very beautiful...
Peace n love Mags
09/14/08 10:10:14PM @tlt50:
Some serious talent at work ,here !! Beautiful soundscape begins.... aw damn'....gone ! More later ,I hope ! Well done.......
cheers,
Larry T.....
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large; color: #000000; font-family: "Franklin Gothic Medium";"><br />“THE MESSAGE STICK”</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 150%;" class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: Arial;">The album, "The Message Stick" incorporates the talents of 25 incredibly gifted musicians and songwriters from across the globe that are true artists in their chosen disciplines! </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 150%;" class="MsoNormal"><span><span><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000;">David Pendragon, an independent music producer/sound engineer living in Canberra created this album with the collaboration of musicians playing together over the Internet in their own home studios.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 150%;" class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: Arial;">Musicians from as far away as Europe, U.S.A, Canada, U.K, India, Singapore, and various other Australian states showcase their incredible talents on this album.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 150%;" class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: Arial;">'Tribe World Ensemble' has evolved out of the Canberra Australia band called ‘Tribe’ who are well known for their album ‘The Gathering’ [New World Music] and the single ‘The Bushfire Song’</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 150%;" class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: Arial;"> After the success of 'The Gathering', the idea of a follow up high-quality, well-recorded album of World music, played on real instruments rather than keyboard sounds, seemed a very natural progression. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 150%;" class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: Arial;">Early in 2005 Pendragon began to explore the Internet as a way to promote Tribe and 'The Gathering'.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 150%;" class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: Arial;">Through his investigations Pendragon became inspired with the idea to use the Internet to produce, write and coordinate an entire album of quality music, with musicians who had never met and in many cases, had never even conversed with each other. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 150%;" class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: Arial;">While many ' online collaborations' had been created previously, no-one at that time had ever produced an entire ALBUM! <br />David realized that this, for him, was the true meaning of World Music.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 150%;" class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: Arial;">Without the Internet as a tool it would never have been possible for them to work together due to the vast distances involved. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 150%;" class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: Arial;"> Each of the musicians involved, are artists well known in their own communities for their musical expertise on instruments such as: violin, cello, sitar, guitar, lap-slide guitar, drums and percussion, Native American flute and many, many others. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 150%;" class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: Arial;">Pendragon enlisted all the musicians needed to create this album through Internet forums and independent music sites. He recorded 'back track' parts in his studio and made them available via the Internet to enable the contributing musicians to record their parts and then return them to the Canberra studio. David then mixed these parts into the main mix of the final songs. </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 150%;" class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: Arial;">Some song writing and creative development took place during late-night intercontinental or interstate 'voice-over-internet' conversations; Humming a tune in Canberra to a sitar riff, or choosing a drum sound over the Skype phone, with the accompanying player somewhere on the other side of the world!</span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 150%;" class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: Arial;">A documentary covering this incredible musical journey is currently being made.<br /><br />Combine all this with the talents of local and interstate musicians and vocalists, and you have a world-class album, pieced together in a very unusual way by one of the planets very first truly ‘World Music’ band. This is fast becoming one of the ways musicians and artists will work together in the future. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: Arial;">Following is the bands collective statement about “THE MESSAGE STICK”:</span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;" class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: Arial;">“Message Sticks were used by the Australian Aboriginal people and other tribal cultures to send messages from one place or tribe to another. The messenger was a protected person and allowed free passage across traditional boundaries. We can learn many things from the Native Indigenous People from all areas of our World. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;" class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: Arial;">A common thread that runs throughout all cultures is a caring and unconditional love for the land that clothes and feeds us. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;" class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: Arial;">In this album we are sending out our own heartfelt message to our fellow inhabitants of this incredible place we all call home, Planet Earth. Each song expresses a feeling about some aspect of human co-existence and relationship, with ourselves, with our Planet and with each other. We ask you to join with us.” </span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">David</span><span style="font-size: medium; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"> Pendragon’s work on this album has already won him the 2006 International Online Music Award (I.O.M.A) for “Best Online Music Producer.<br />THIS ALBUM HAS TAKEN THREE YEARS TO PRODUCE. It is a work of love.</span>
Wonderful! What a soothing sound. Nicely played and recorded. It feels good.
Absolutely beautiful! Great breath control on the flute, perfect choice of soundscapes to compliment the haunting flute. I wish it was longer but then, sometimes a little goes a long way!!
Short, but sometimes you only need a few notes to get the feeling across. This does just that in a very magical way. superb piece well done
A Fan for sure, your music is so weel de but short here, whats up? Love it! The RatMan!
beautiful piece but wish it was longer! amazing.
After listening to one of yours I decided to listen to another...That must be the sign of good music..
This one is so very pure....every note precise and beautifully placed, much, much too short...
Peace n love Mags
Some serious talent at work ,here !! Beautiful soundscape begins.... aw damn'....gone ! More later ,I hope ! Well done.......
cheers,
Larry T.....