“I never really planned on recording anywhere but the coast. Hanna knew her Grandma's sister had lived in Canada but she never knew. “It’s a beautiful wooden studio on the lake,” he says. called to make me envious about not seeing Xavier Rudd Marissa said No. In addition, he recorded his last album, Spirit Bird, at a cottage in Thornbury. His former wife is Canadian, so Rudd’s two boys, now 14 and 9, have some maple syrup in their veins. “You know, his mom had passed during the mixing process, and he was kind of grieving, and the content of the record, the respect for the sacred feminine really touched him. It was almost like the ancestors sat down and had a cup of tea and put it all together.”Īs is the case with much reggae music, recording Nanna brought Rudd to the island of Jamaica, where he mastered the album side-by-side with the legendary Errol Brown at Tuff Gong Studios. xavier rudd - live in canada album lyrics1.small destinction lyrics2.9 times a day lyrics3.this little space lyrics4.lives in the book een spandex om bud to blossom lyrics7.the native eye lyrics8.the son of a father lyrics9.river groove lyrics10. All the members are the first members, there were no auditions or anything. “As soon as I put it out there to the universe, it just came. “It came together pretty organically to be honest,” he explains. When he talks about his music, he speaks as if it is something that comes to him, not something he actively creates.
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Rudd is a free thinker, a vegetarian and a well-known environmental activist who actively supports organizations such as the Sea Shepherd Society. “It’s something I’ve always wanted to do, put a big band like this together,” Rudd says. And it worked.īut for his latest album, Nanna, Rudd did something totally different and put together a massive, eight-person band, dubbed United Nations, for a reggae-infused jam fest, and he’s bringing the entire crew to Toronto on May 6 as part of Canadian Music Week.
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Australian musician Xavier Rudd made it big as a one-man groove machine touring the globe with his didgeridoos, guitars and stomp box, turning out beach blanket blues on a series of highly regarded albums backed by moving and energetic live performances.Īlthough he’s done collaborations in the past, notably with a drummer on the moody and raw album Dark Shades of Blue and employing a two-person rhythm section, dubbed Izintaba, on the 2010 album Koonyum Sun, his career has largely been defined by his breathtaking solo work, both live and in the studio.
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