Artist: Xavier Rudd
Genre(s):
Pop
Rock
Discography:
White Moth
Year: 2007
Tracks: 14
Solace
Year:
Tracks: 14
Like Jack Johnson, sovereign Australian musician Xavier Rudd combines a love of surfboarding with a love of roots music. Like Ben Harper, he plays Weissenborn circuit steel guitars. Utterly dissimilar both of those musicians, however, he has a unequaled apparatus. Rudd is a one-man band worldly concern Health Organization plays surrounded by instruments in a complicated array --- typically, he has terzetto didgeridoos situated in presence of him on a stand, a guitar on his lap, a stompbox by his habitually unornamented feet, and an mixed bagful of drums, banjos, harmonicas, bells, and bass guitar approximate at hand, or near at foot as the case may be. He takes this setup with him on shop tours (as well as his surfboards), relying on word of mouth or else than record labels to speak for him. His albums, several of them live recordings, are to the highest degree frequently sold at these sold-out gigs.
Scardinius erythrophthalmus number one erudite the round respiration technique mandatory to play the didgeridoo by practicing on a vacuum cleansing agent hosiery. While growing up in Torquay and Bell's Beach in Victoria he likewise learned guitar, clarinet, and sax. He seemed destined to be a instrumentalist, but could ne'er focussing on exactly the unitary instrument, preferring to feel shipway to mix them together, such as by playing basslines on his guitar while simultaneously finger-picking on the lour string section. All these skills came together when he began busking and traveling.
During his travels, Rudd discovered an phylogenetic relation for Canada, where he has dual citizenship. His married woman is also a Canadian he met patch she was backpacking through Australia. The low written document of his performances, Live in Canada, was recorded at that place in 2001 and helped banquet the word. His low studio album, To Let, followed a year later.
2003 saw some early independently released document of his stage performances in Live at the Grid. His next studio album, 2004's Solace, well-tried to fascinate his live profound by eschewing invitee artists; Rudd played all the instruments himself with exclusively a few overdubs. Solacement contained his address of Bob Marley's "No Woman No Cry" and the single "Allow Me Be," which he plays a pop extensive version of at his concerts. The album, inactive independently released, was his number one to be distributed by Universal, gaining a wider audience. It debuted in the Top 20 of the ARIA charts and attained pt gross gross sales.
Gaining more than attention, he toured with Jack Johnson as good as G. Love & Special Sauce. Another live record album, Good Spirit, was recorded at trey of his Australian gigs and released in 2005. The like year brought the waiver of Food in the Belly, a studio album recorded in Vancouver, which proverb edgar Albert Guest artists including Beth Preston, Harry Manx, and the Vancouver Children's Choir brought in. This album likewise went pt in Australia.
Rudd is one of a growing turn of environmentally concerned musicians consecrate to reducing the shock of his performances and tours. His touring in 2007 in support of his album White Moth was totally carbon-neutral. The album itself, while continuing his blues and roots fuse of folk, reggae, rock, and world euphony, reflects this in its themes, with songs about planetary warming and his guilt over the fact that he has a higher profile than many of the environmental activists he idolizes.
