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About Colour
 After doing yoga, my friend Paul Whellock and I would get together and play some music. We decided to just let it flow and let the music that's been brewing for so long, come out. We went with feel instead of structure.
At the time I was taking African and contemporary dance lessons from David Matamela, who is an amazing dancer and co-choreographer of the hugely successful `African Footprints'. In the class was Salomé Sechele, ex South African Latin American dance champion.
They are both excellent musicians as well and we started to get together and jam. Phresh Makhene, percussionist and singer, joined us later... It was a delicious time full of creative energy and endless potential.
I started to work with Mauritz Lotz to arrange and pull this together. We travelled the long road of realizing the potential that was there.
Then Husky joined with his mixing magic, and...
out of the peace and tranquility of our beings and the energy of dance came this album, the music of my heart...
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Track 1 - 'Vuelvo al Sur' |
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I have been a Piazzola fan for a long time. I first heard this number on the GOTAN Project CD, and loved it from the first time I heard it. When I was in Buenos Aires, I kept on hearing the flute playing the melody lines in my mind and when I got back, I decided to record it.
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The free soul of Africa bubbles over in this song - I just love it's simplicity and energy... It's the fruit of my African roots.
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This was the first song we created and it's really about the plaintive sound of the fife and the emotions it unlocks when you listen to it. We named it after a yoga posture that Paul was trying to teach me at the time.
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We used to perform this Celtic traditional with just the flute and guitar - Mauritz filled it out a bit for us.
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David, Phresh, Salomé and I created this with the minimum instrumentation - mostly just using vocal sounds. For me, this song brings together the collection of our cultures and childhoods.
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This song really captures the spirit of Buenos Aires for me. It has depth, a sadness that's full of hope and fierce energy. It's one of my favourites on the album, as it allows me to be really expressive on the flute...
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Track 7 - 'Quisas, quisas, quisas' |
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The three sisters is the movie `Tortilla Soup' sang this song with such enthusiasm that it was impossible not to like it.
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David and Salomé used to come to my house and we would just jam. David is very creative and always has another `even better' idea, which made it difficult to finalise the song. Eventually we went into the studio and asked Mauritz to help us structure the song.
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This comes from a bass flute solo that I wrote. I went into the studio and just improvised on top of the bass line and this was the result...
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Track 10 - 'Nothing Compares 2 U' |
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Sinead o' Connor really moves me when she does this song and I wanted to express the same passion on the flute.
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This piece started by having a musical `duel'. One of us goes first and plays a beautiful melody, which the other one tries to play even more expressively...
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There is a lightness that is difficult to define... It moves with an uneven lilt - it has a 5/4 rhythm and a definite swing to it.
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I used to play this piece as an introduction to a Flamenco show - there is a Spanish flavour to the beginning that just seemed to flow once we started creating it.
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Inspired by Jade and Simone and the way they sound when they say `Excuse me?'
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Track 15 - 'Al Le Die Berge Nog So Blou' |
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This is one of my favourite Afrikaans traditional songs. Underneath the simple melody and words lie a deep sadness and a resignation to the realities of life.
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