Walkabout (2018) is offered as a tribute to the Australian Aboriginal originators of the didgeridoo. In Aboriginal culture a ‘walkabout’ is a journey (long or short) where one embarks on an unplanned walk just to see where they may end up. Internationally debuted at the STRATA New Music Festival in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, Walkabout “journeys” through three different meters 5/4, 6/8, and 2/4 as it gathers momentum from beginning to end. In addition to alto sax and Eb sewerphone, this recording features a guest performance by world-class drummer/percussionist Satnam Ramgotra performing on the Hindustani tabla and African shakers. For this composition, all instruments are processed through an IR captured from Selimiye, an Ottoman Imperial Mosque from Edirne, Turkey.
from
Sonic Eclipse,
released December 28, 2019
All songs (except #8) composed by Duo Gillis Cunningham (DGC) aka James E Cunningham b.1954, and Glen H Gillis b. 1956.
*Whales in a Mechanical Ocean, composed by Matthew M. Baltrucki b. 1986, feat. The DGC and recorded samples from the David L. Kaplan Musical Instrument Collection at the University of Saskatchewan Department of Music.
Glen Gillis: alto saxophone
James E Cunningham: didgeridoos, conch trumpet, wailphone, and select idiophones
Guest percussionists: Satnam Ramgotra and Matt Nichols
Produced by Matt Baltrucki and James E Cunningham
Engineering, mixing, mastering, and post-production by Matt Baltrucki
Assistant engineering by Zach Binder
Album artwork by Kelley Cunningham
Recorded at Studio A, Department of Music, Florida Atlantic University
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