DIDGERIDOO INFORMATION

RECOMMENDED CDs

BAKA Outback
DANCE THE DEVIL AWAY Outback
QUANTUM DREAMING Inlokesh
TJILATJILA Charlie McMahon 1996
NOMAD Robert Mirabal and Mor Thiam
CROSS AND HATCH Alan Dargen
GONDWANALAND Charlie McMahon
WILD HONEY DREAMING Matthew Doyle and Riley Lee
THE ART OF THE DIDGERIDOO David Hudson
AXIS Mike Edwards and Michael Jackson
ART OF DIDGE David Lindner, Matthias Eder and York Wendland
BLOODWOOD – THE ART OF DIDGERIDOO Alan Dargin with Michael Atherton – Natrural Symphonies 1991
DIDGERIDOO DREAMING Alistair Black – Larrikin Records 1992
KAKADU Tony O’Connor – Steve Parish Publishing 1992
MARK ATKINS PLAYS DIDGERIDOO Mark Atkins – Enrec., 1992
MUSIC OF MY PEOPLE.  AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL MUSIC Bob Maza – Twin Track Productions
WOOLUNDA – TEN SOLOS FOR DIDGERIDOO David Hudson – Celestial Harmonies 1993
PLAYING THE DIDGERIDOO – a complete course John Bowden 1995

Available from the author : P O Box 508 Kallangur, Quuensland 4503, Australia.  john@didgeridoo.australia.com

DIDGERIDOO – ANCIENT SOUND OF THE FUTURE Gary Thomas – Aquarius International Music, Muenchen
AUSTRALIA – SOUND OF THE EARTH Steve Roach, David Hudson and Sandra Hopkins – Fortuna Records
CEREMONY Danie Lauter and Suru Ekeh – Raven Recording
ONE FINE MAMA Native Ground – Raven Recording
TRIBAL VOICE – HOMELAND MOVEMENT Yothu Yindi – Mushroom Records, Australia
TERRA INCOGNITA

LET THE DOG OUT

WILDLIFE

GONDWANALAND

WIDE SKIES

Gondwanaland – Warner Music, Australia
ECHOES IN THE DUST Andrew Langford and Ted Egan – The original Dreamtime Art Gallery, P O Box 1655, Alice Springs, NT Australia
SEXTETT FOR DIDGERIDOO AND WIND QUINTETT George Dreyfus – EMI Australia
DIDGERIDOO MASTER David Blanasi 1999
21 DIDJERIDU SOLOS Charlie McMahon 2000
SOUNDS OF THE ABORIGINE M McRae and H Wilson

 

WEB SITES

RECOMMENDED VIDEOS

  • How to play the didgeridoo by Chris Adnam
  • Didgeridoo by P Walsh and M Jackson
  • Didjeridu Documentary (27 minutes/1997)

A journey with Charlie McMahon to discover the roots of dij Aboriginal Arnhem.  Includes song and dance from actual ceremonies.

RECOMMENDED PUBLICATIONS

An Illustrated Encylopaedia of Aboriginal Life A W Reed – J W Books Pty Ltd Brookvale N.S.W. 1974
Australian Aboriginal Culture Australian InFo International – A G P S Press Canberra 1989
Australian Dreaming

40,000 Years Of Aboriginal History

Jennifer Isaacs – Lansdowne Press, Sydney 1986
From Earlier Fleets – Hemisphere – An Aboriginal Anthology Ed. R Henderson – Curriculum Development Centre 1989
Nomads of the Australian Desert Charles E Mountford – Rigby Pty Ltd Adelaide 1976
The Queensland Aborigines – Vols 1, 2 and 3 W E Roth   Heperian Press. Facsimile Ed., 1984
Voices of the First Day – Awakening In the Aboriginal Dreamtime R Lawlor   Inner Traditions Rochester Vermont 1991
Our Place Our Music – Volume 2 Maurice Breen   Aboriginal Studies Press Canberra Australia 1990
Acoustics of the Australian didjeridu N H Fletcher Australian Aboriginal Studies Australia 1983
Australia’s Living Heritage Jennifer Isaacs   Ure Smith Press, Sidney 1984
The yiraki in north-eastern Arnhemland, Techniques and Styles Berndt/Philips 1973
Didgeridoo : Ritual Origins and playing techniques Dork Schellberg  Binkey Kok Publishers
Mutant Message Down Under Murlo Morgan   Harper Collins 1991
PLAYING THE DIDGERIDOO – a complete course John Bowden 1995

Available from the author : P O Box 508 Kallangur, Queensland 4503, Australia.  john@didgeridoo.australia.com