Live in canada xavier rudd
I put the maggies in there at the start and the end because it’s such a common sound. And it just came from that whole understanding when I got home. “I wrote that back down south, I guess reflecting on the massive amount of stuff that’s happening, that has been happening, on this old ancient land for so many years, a long time before our culture, and just how we don’t take any time to acknowledge that. The song was written after Rudd returned to Australia, at a time when he found himself particularly aware of all of the native bird sounds around him. It was like ‘Too many Aussie birds, give me a go’.”Īnd yet it’s Follow The Sun, the one non-Canadian recording, that has been released as the first taste of the new album. It just showed up and wanted to be a part of it. It’s really interesting because it’s the only North American bird on the record. That was the take that we used on the record, and you can hear that bird. I was doing this one track called Butterfly and I was out on the lake playing on a little flip drum, tapping my foot on the dock which had this really good bass response, and this little bird started singing back to me. Every bird we put in just worked, in pitch and tempo. “It was pretty bizarre how it started to work. At first he didn’t know if it was something he could actually pull off, but he needn’t have worried. Rudd hit upon the idea of incorporating the birds’ songs into the percussion and harmony of the record. The title of the album is particularly meaningful, given its unusual cast of backing singers: thirty species of Australian bird (plus one Canadian ring-in). I’ve spent enough time in cities on tour. “Just having the lake to swim in and a place to be secluded and do gentle rehabilitation while I was recording was the idea.
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It’s so out of the way, and usually when I record it’s time that I’ve stopped, and usually it’s somewhere on the coast so I can go surfing.” This time around Rudd decided to buck that trend, partially because he was recuperating from surgery to his lower back, so surfing was out of the question. “I met a guy at one of my shows who had a studio,” Rudd explains “He showed me photos of it, and it was all wooden, and I thought it’d be a great space to record. The rest was tracked in Ontario, north of Toronto in Canada, in a wooden cottage by a lake. Follow The Sun was actually the last song Rudd recorded for the forthcoming album Sprit Bird, and the only track recorded in Australia.