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Family Tree (Disc One & Two)
Stephen Kent
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Performed by Stephen Kent. Written by Stephen Kent, Simon Tassano, Barbara Imhoff, Beth Custer, Eda Maxym, Geoffrey Gordon, John Loose, Kenneth Newby, and Nancy Kaspar. A Mixed Vocal and Instrumental World Fusion CD with Asian, Australian Aboriginal, Ethnic Folk, Experimental, Folk, Funk, Jazz, Native American, New Age, Pop, Rock, Techno, Trance, Tribal, World Beat, and World Music genre influences. (1997) |
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Artists
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Genres
Asian, Australian Aboriginal, Ethnic Folk, Experimental, Funk, Jazz, Native American, New Age, Pop, Rock, Techno, Trance, Tribal, World Beat, World Music
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Acoustic, Ambient, Dance Music, Electro-Acoustic, Goddess Oriented Music, Healing Music, Motivational Music, Positive Music, Sacred Music, Solo Instrumental, Soundtracks, Spiritual Music, Tribal Music, Tribal Trance, Vocal Harmonies, Women's Music
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Track List
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 | 1. | Energizer | | | Click Stick, Didjeridu (Didgeridoo) | | 2:30 | | | | Written by: Stephen Kent
Performed by: Stephen Kent | | |
| 2. | Yekke [Terrestrial Mix] | | | Didjeridu (Didgeridoo), Djembe, Drums, Ngoma Drums, Percussion, Ullulations | | 5:05 | | | | Written by: Stephen Kent
Performed by: Stephen Kent | | |
| 3. | Head Light | | | Alto Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Didjeridu (Didgeridoo), Drums, Frame Drums, Multi-Ethnic Percussion, Ngoma Drums, Shakers | | 10:32 | | | | Written by: Beth Custer, Stephen Kent, John Loose, Kenneth Newby
Performed by: Trance Mission | | |
| 4. | Jungnawangra | | | Didjeridu (Didgeridoo) | | 3:42 | | | | Written by: Stephen Kent
Performed by: Stephen Kent | | |
| 5. | Hole in the Road | | | Bass, Didjeridu (Didgeridoo), Drums, Guitar, Lead Female Vocal | | 5:11 | | | | Written by: Stephen Kent, Eda Maxym
Performed by: Stephen Kent & Eda Maxym | | |
| 6. | Zozobra | | | Clarinet, Didjeridu (Didgeridoo), Rebab, Suling (Balinese Bamboo Flute), Tablas | | 5:16 | | | | Written by: Stephen Kent, John Loose, Beth Custer, Kenneth Newby
Performed by: Trance Mission | | |
| 7. | Veedeevu | | | Chimes, Didjeridu (Didgeridoo), Digital Atmosphere, Drums, Shakers | | 4:20 | | | | Written by: Stephen Kent, Eddy Sayer, Simon Tassano
Performed by: Lights in a Fat City | | |
| 8. | Red Rock | | | Didjeridu (Didgeridoo), Double Bass, Drums, Lead Female Vocal, Pedal Harp | | 8:48 | | | | Written by: Geoffrey Gordon, Barbara Imhoff, Eda Maxym, Stephen Kent, Nancy Kaspar
Performed by: Beasts of Paradise | | |
| 9. | Toots [Parts 1&2] | | | Bicycle Spokes, Didjeridu (Didgeridoo), Drums, Percussion, Taped Atmosphere | | 13:56 | | | | Written by: Stephen Kent, Simon Tassano
Performed by: Stephen Kent | | |
| 10. | Hale | | | Didjeridu (Didgeridoo) | | 18:57 | | | | Written by: Stephen Kent
Performed by: Stephen Kent | | |
| 11. | Comet Allez Vous? | | | Didjeridu (Didgeridoo), Digital Atmosphere | | 4:05 | | | | Written by: Stephen Kent, Simon Tassano
Performed by: Stephen Kent | | |
| 12. | Bopp | | | Didjeridu (Didgeridoo) | | 13:36 | | | | Written by: Stephen Kent
Performed by: Stephen Kent | | |
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Performance
Credits
Lead Vocals: Eda Maxym
Backup Vocals: Eda Maxym, Esmerelda Kent, Eszike Tarics
Bicycle Spokes: Stephen Kent
Click Stick: Stephen Kent
Didjeridu (Didgeridoo): Stephen Kent
Drums: Stephen Kent
Guitar: Stephen Kent
Ngoma Drums: Stephen Kent
Percussion: Stephen Kent
Shakers: Stephen Kent
Taped Atmosphere: Stephen Kent
Drums: John Loose
Frame Drums: John Loose
Multi-Ethnic Percussion: John Loose
Tablas: John Loose
Digital Atmosphere: Simon Tassano
Drums: Matt Butler
Djembe: Suru
Alto Clarinet: Beth Custer
Bass Clarinet: Beth Custer
Clarinet: Beth Custer
Bass: Nancy Kaspar
Double Bass: Nancy Kaspar
Chimes: Eddy Sayer
Drums: Eddy Sayer
Suling (Balinese Bamboo Flute): Kenneth Newby
Drums: Geoffrey Gordon
Pedal Harp: Barbara Imhoff
Bicycle Spokes: Rachel Clare
Rebab: Peter Whitehead
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Production
Credits
Producer: Stephen Kent
Producer: Dave Nelson
Producer: Simon Tassano
Recording Engineer: Dave Nelson
Mixing Engineer: Simon Tassano at Emeryville Recording Studios, Emeryville, California
Recording Engineer: Simon Tassano at Emeryville Recording Studios, Emeryville, California
Recording Engineer: Christian Jones at Mobius Music, San Francisco, California
Recording Engineer: Dave Nelson at Poolside, San Francisco, California
Mixing Engineer: Simon Tassano at Coast Studios, San Francisco, California
Recording Engineer: Simon Tassano at Mesa Studio, Sebastopol, California
Recording Engineer: Simon Tassano at Elephant Studios, London,
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Liner
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I remember the first time I heard Stephen Kent. In 1989, synthesist Steve Roach sat me down in his living room and put on 'Somewhere', the first album by Stephen's group at the time, Lights In A Fat City. Surging from the speakers was a tribal throb of percussion, synthesizers and a sound forged in a primordial spirit. It was the didgeridoo, played by Stephen Kent.
The didgeridoo is an instrument from Australia's Aboriginal tribes that's made from tree branches hollowed out by termites. There are no valves, not even holes, just straight, albeit elaborately decorated, tube. You blow into it somewhat like a trumpet, creating a fundamental low-tone that is splintered into complex overtones. In Stephen Kent's hands, it emits earth shuddering growls, primal squalls and poignant pleas. In the didgeridoo is the first wail as consciousness was born on the earth.
Originally from England, Stephen Kent came across the didgeridoo while working in Australia as the music director of Circus Oz, a Cirque du Soleil-style performing troupe. Stephen became entranced by Aboriginal culture saying that 'the energy of the land sang Aborigine to me.'
Although he spent several months in the outback visiting Aboriginal settlements, he had no intention of simply replicating their ancestral sound. Instead, he returned to England and formed the techno-tribal Lights in a Fat City. Traveling the globe he landed in San Francisco where he met more musicians with roots in ancient music and branches reaching out into the modern world. Clarinetist Beth Custer, percussionist John Loose and Kenneth Newby with his Indonesian winds and percussion, joined Kent to form Trance Mission. They mixed cultures and technologies in a hallucinogenic swirl risen from the dance floors of the early rave music scene. Other groups and collaborations followed, including Beasts of Paradise, with Kent's partner, singer Eda Maxym.
The didgeridoo is the core of Stephen Kent's sound. When he plays, it extends from his mouth like another appendage. But the didg isn't where his musicality ends. Family Tree traces textural drone works and ecstatic dances fired in didgeridoo rhythms, mixed in a psychedelic crucible and baked in the imagination of Stephen Kent.
-John Diliberto
(John Diliberto is the producer & host of 'Echoes', a daily music soundscape heard on over 135 Public Radio International stations.)
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