" The Road to Wugularr (The Album) "

The Road To Wugalarr CD was recorded and mixed at Spring Bank West Productions, Welham Lodge Studio by Colliss using, A soundcraft spirit mixing desk, 24 track Tascam DA-88 Multitrack tape machines, Cubase sequencing, Various Emu modules for drums and added instruments ( Proteus, Carnaval, Planet Phatt, Mo Phatt and Orbit), a Roland JD-800 Synth, Alesis and Roland drum machines, Neumann, Shure and AKG Microphones. The whole album was recorded and finished in 5 days and in many ways it was a shame that we didn't have more time to do a couple of extra remixes to some of the songs. All additional musical instruments and programming by Colliss, except "In-didg-inus," Music by William Hayton of Fully Functional Music, and Colliss.

This piece of music is one of the more experimental tracks on the album and it uses a lot of sampling of sounds played by the didjeridu which is what gives this song it's strange sound. The sampled didj parts were used to make up almost all the percussion instruments and in fact there are only 3 sounds on this track which are not played on a didj. Those sounds are a bass drum, a synthesizer sound and a cymbal. Nick and Steve each played through the entire song and these parts make up all the major didj playing throughout the track. Then for, what we call the chorus section, steve and nick each played didjs playing different notes and they switched notes alternatively to create the changes, which you can hear.

Didg fever is the name of Nick Burman's business in Glastonbury and this track is a solo track recorded by him as one live take.

This track is 2 didj's live at the same time, with Steve mic'd up in the sound booth and Nick Mic'd up in the studio room.

The title comes from steve's in-didg-inus-doos business and the song was built up over a percussion and outback soundtrack made by Bill Hayton. Steve played along to this track using his C sharp Wugularr, (a gift from David B*a*a*i) then we added Nicks track, drums and strings using our drum and sound modules and Colliss played the accoustic guitar part to finish it off.
Straight after we made this first attempt at mixing this track, the tape machines started to play up and the machine never let us play this song any more, so we were relieved that we managed to be taping this mix onto DAT tape just before this happened.

There are solo tracks on this album because we know that there are a lot of fans of the didj that like to hear the didj played in tbis way, and this first one is Nick's solo piece. He is playing what didj players call "a double bounce rythm"

This piece of music is another one of the tracks that Nick and Steve recorded live together as one take.

The name of this track comes from the use of the term Stick by some of steve's Aboriginal friends to describe didjeridu's and from the clicksticks or bilma that accompany much traditional playing. both Steve and Nick play.

This track is a tribute to Mr David B*a*a*i Aboriginaal Elder, Ceremonial leader, and Didjeridu Master. It was played by Nick on an English Yew didjeridu made by Steve in the Key of G. Geoff Toll a good friend of David's said that the track had captured his wild syncopated playing style.

This track is another by both Steve and Nick using two didjeridu's in the key of B and is meant to evoke images in the listener of the Cricket and Parakeet as they bask in the sun and preen.

This is one of the more complex songs on the album from a music point of view. This piece is led more by the instruments than by the didj. This style of music was included on the album because from a listeners point of view we wanted to try to make this didj album more diverse and unusual than other didj albums that have been recorded before. We wanted to experiment with the posibilities of what we could create by trying to sit the didj in with different styles of music. Both Nick and Steve play on this track.

The didj part on this song is from Nick's song 2 on the album and it follows the same form of experimentation that the previous track tries to pursue, by adding more instruments and specifically mixing the didj with the sound of the cello's playing melodies around the didj part and key.

The sound of Squabbling in the Bush. This track is meant to portray the Competition in the Animal world as everything competes for their place in the hierarchy or Pecking Order It is in the key of B again using two didjeridu's.

This piece of music was a 3 way live recording of Steve and Nick on didj's and Colliss playing with the filters on a synthesized sound from a Roland JD-800 synth.

The final piece of music on the CD lasts only 41 seconds and is treated heavily with effects. Once we had mastered this short piece onto DAT tape we looked out of the window and saw a beautiful sky, which we photographed. This picture we used for the inside cover.

If you would like to order the Road to Wugularr CD, then please contact either Steve Wright using the Email address below, or NIck Burman.

If you would like to hear some short clips of any of the tracks go to the documents folder at My group Didj site.
For more information on this and other products, please visit the IN-DIDG-INUS-DOOS sales page.

New Album

Steve and Colliss are starting work early in 2004 on a new album which we hope will include a track originally recorded by Charlie McMahon entitled Wugularr. Charlie has kindly given us permission to record our version of the track for which we give thanks. Stay tuned for updates and progress.

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