Solace (2005)Shelter
3 Degrees
Let Me Be
Solace
G.B.A.
In Transit
Chances
Journey Song
4th World, A
Yirra-Curl
No Woman No Cry
Partnership
Silence
Green Spandex
White Moth (2007)
1. Better People
2. Twist
3. Stargaze
4. Choices
5. Come Let Go
6. White Moth
7. Footprint
8. Land Rights
9. Anni Kookoo
10. Message Stick
11. Set It Up
12. Whispers
13. Whirlpool
14. Come Back
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Xavier Rudd is a soulful Australian surf/roots artist from Torquay, Victoria, which is near the famous surfing location, Bells Beach.
Rudd’s music is compassionate and always manages to render emotion in his fans. His songs include stories of the mistreatment of the indigenous people of his homeland; they tell of humanity, spirituality or the environment. The songs are written and sung with compassion and they urge the celebration of life.
Rudd is skilled with a variety of instruments, include guitar, shaker, didgeridoo, Weissenborn slide guitar, Tongue drum, stomp boxe, djembe, harmonica, ankle bells, and slide banjo. It’s an experience to watch him perform his songs live, as he plays the guitar, digeridoo and various percussion instruments simultaneously, using a unique stage setup. But the real magic comes when he opens his mouth and his soulful voice spills upon his audience.
Rudd recalls that when he was 10, his dad took him to see Paul Simon’s Graceland tour. “I remember seeing it and knowing that that was what I was gonna do,” he says. “I had no doubt. It sort of made sense, because I’d always lived in my head, in this world of song that was my own little secret. But to see that show and that whole thing happening, I sort of felt comfortable as a human, and thought.” He learned to play the digeridoo, the 50,000-year-old wooden trumpet of the Aboriginal people, by practising on a vacuum cleaner pipe.
