Some beautiful Earl Clements didgeridoos have arrived including some amazing flared and bell end didges, all painted in the classic Western Arnhem Land style.
Earl is a hard working one man operartion. He is the didge cutter, crafter and the artist.
Check out some photos of Earl sweating away in Australia’s top end on a didge making expedition for Spirit Gallery.
Our good friend Kristian Benton visited us just after Christmas with a beautiful bunch of quality instruments.
He has been busy this year performing several times at the World Expo in South Korea as the Australian indigenous performer. He is about to embark on a tour of South Africa and will continue to make quality instruments exclusively for Spirit Gallery throughout 2013.
Check out some of the Kristian Benton Didgeridoos and watch the man at work below!
Multi-instrumentalist Kash Killion dropped into Spirit Gallery for a visit. Upon seeing our collection of didgeridoos he brought back his Sarangi and the result is below!!
An accomplished Sarangi player, he has studied this complex instrument with the great masters Sultan Khan and Rhamish Mishra.
But never played one with a didge. Has anyone? Great fun!
Kash is a San Francisco based cellist, bassist, sarangist, vocalist, and composer. He has performed with various ethnic music ensembles and chamber orchestras and has over a hundred recordings to his name. Check him out http://www.kashkillion.com/
Introducing “Barramundi”.
A local Sydney didgeridoo player and regular visitor to our store. In fact most of these instruments in his collection pictured above came from Spirit Gallery.
He has only been playing for a couple of years. Not bad for such a short period!!
Strong, Powerful Player. Enjoy!!
What didge is he playing. A gorgeous sweet toned White Mountain Essence Didjeridu all the way from our good friends in New Hampshire USA.
This one’s for you Steven!! Best “blind” didge purchase Spirit Gallery has ever made and now part of our private collection. Check out WEDIDJ at http://www.wedidj.com/
Full Burton Didges now online. Check them out.
As mentioned in our previous post Spirit Gallery will be the only didge store in the WORLD to have some rare NEW FULL BURTON DIDGES. Our good friend Nathan was nice enough to choose Spirit Gallery to showcase the very few didges he has recently made. Quite an honour considering he is only made a handful over the last few years.
Burton didgeridoos are prized for their unique bell sizes, optimum backpressure, awesome acoustics, ideal resonance and extreme volume and all come with a Burton lifetime guarantee. The full Burton logo is burned into the bell end of every Burton Instrument.
Check out the reputation of the man and his didges http://burtondidj.com/. The only available instruments are now all at Spirit Gallery and for the same price as on the Burton site.
Already a lot of interest in them. One already gone before it had a chance to get online. Might be a very long time before some new Burtons appear again!!
We were lucky enough to have our friend from up North Scott Estrich recently visit us.
Scott regularly incorporates the didgeridoo into his staff team builiding, corporate and eucational events and courses – often using instruments sourced from Spirit Gallery.
Scott has been playing and teaching the didgeridoo for almost 10 years, and has entertained groups and public audiences in concerts and festivals across Australia and Europe. He has worked and trained with didjeridu masters Djalu Gurriwiwi,Milkay Mununggurr and Darryl Dikarrna
Scott is available for almost any didgeridoo event whether it be lessons, workshops, weddings or corporate events and more, If you need anything didgeridoo and you are near the Sunshine Coast then Scott is your man!
For more information you can viist his website http://www.bushlab.com.au/lab/
Introducing Sean Patrick Ryan. Sean has been playing and performing with the didgeridoo for over 15 years. Sean belong to the Kuku Nyunkal bubu bamanga. (the people of the Black Cockatoo mother country) from north Queensland.
Sean is one of the few professional Aboriginal didgeridoo players based in Sydney, Australia. He has accompanied many artists from a wide range of genres at a variety of venues. From performances with Australia’s premier jazz musician James Morrison at the Sydney Opera House, performances with well known Aboriginal musician Frank Yamma at Fox Studios in Sydney; playing with Djs at night clubs; performances at Kirribilli House for the Governor General of Australia (2011 and 2010); didjeridoo performances for Hettie Perkins at The “Art and Soul” Exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW , solo performances at Boardi Space at Peats Ridge Festival and an upcomg performance with Cirque Du Soleil, among others.
When he is not performing or booked for an event you can find Sean here at Spirit Gallery. There is not much he doesn’t know about the didgeridoo, hence the title “professor”
Sean also does all our private and group lessons and is also available for any event requiring an indigenous performer, educator and didgeridoo player.
Want more information. Log onto Sean’s website – http://www.didjeridooplayer.com.au/
Spirit Gallery is not only the local hub in Sydney for didgeridoo players but we have players from all around Australia and the world who buy online or come and visit the store.
Introducing Dino from Switzerland!
Dino was one of our first online customers back in January 2012, purchasing a beautiful IDIDJ yidaki. Over the months while staying in Queensland he improved his playing skills and finally came to visit us in person a couple of times before heading back to Switzerland after his Australian adventure.
Before leaving he added a rare Full Burton to his collection. One of the nicest didges we have ever had. A beautiful combination of a classic traditional didge with an amazingly crafted refined modern counterpart.
Spirit Gallery ships Australia wide and to every country in the world. International shipping to most countries is $80AUD for one didgeridoo. $120 for two didgeridoos. That’s the best didge shipping rates around- by far!!
Any questions contact us here
We have just received a great bunch of didgeridoos from our newest maker Tristan O’Meara. Some real quality logs in there. Beautifully crafted with awesome power and resonance.
Tristan has been making didgeridoos for a number of years but has only recently turned his hand to full time crafting with an emphasis on high quality instruments. He has refined his technique and skill and it’s now paying off. This bunch of didges is the best we have seen from him, with some absolutely cracking instruments in there.
Tristan spends 9 months of the year making didges and working on his music, spending the Australian Winter in Europe as a touring musician, playing a variety of instruments including the didgeridoo combined with the weissonborn lap steel guitar, acoustic guitar, 6 string tenor ukulele, banjo, blues harmonica, native American flutes and of course his voice!!
He has released 3 official albums, two live albums and one studio album “southern breezes”.
All Tristan O’Meara didgeridoos will come with a copy of “southern breezes”
Want to know more about Tristan. Find him at-
http://www.myspace.com/tristanomeara
http://www.facebook.com/tristanomeara
In the meantime watch Tristan at one of his many performances and check him out making a didge!!
Brisbane Based International Didjeridu performer Adrian Fabila Tjupurrula aka Tjupurru was nice enough to pay us a visit on his most recent trip to Sydney and show us his unique brand of music.
A proud descendant of the Djabera Djabera tribe of the West Australia Kimberleys, Tjupurru plays the DIDJERIBONE and the FACE BASS, both inventions of his close friend Charlie McMahon.
We have seen the Didjeribone before but what is the FACE BASS? Its an internal seismic microphone that enables the slightest whisper and tremble in your mouth or body to be picked up. Any noise made in or around your mouth and neck – vocally, sub vocally, with your tongue, your teeth, your fingers, swallowing, humming or just breathing is amplified.
With the addition of sampling and electronic effects and you have a one mand band called Tjupurru. A unique mixture of sounds and songs that is thorughly entertaining.
Tjupurru has performed at many festivals and concerts, both in Australia and abroad. He is also very busy doing school performances all over Australia.
Would you like to see a live TJUPURRU performance in your town or at your festival or school. Find Tjupurru’s contact details at the following link http://www.myspace.com/tjupurru or find him on facebook http://www.facebook.com/didgeridoobreath#!/tjupurru
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