“I’m bringing a whole spirit and energy and lifestyle that are very different from a lot of those places.
is a powerful place to play music when you’re me and you come from a small town at the bottom of Australia,” Rudd said. Rudd hopes to record a new album later this year fans should expect a new release early next year.īeing an Australian native, Rudd’s adventure to the United States is a special one, but not far from ‘home.’ “I find that everywhere in the world there is similar energy. Music is the voice of the heart.” Luckily for us, Rudd unzips his heart and lets the mass of music seep into our ears and minds. “Music means love, peace, connection, emotion. “My music is simply a reflection of my journey and what comes within that,” Rudd told The Marquee. Incorporating different languages, African-style beats and earth shaking below-the-belt bass lines, for Ben Harper and Michael Franti fans Rudd’s latest studio work is not to be left by the wayside. Varying widely from the previous Dark Shades of Blue, Koonyum Sun takes listeners on an ethereal journey, opening up parts of a musical bliss Rudd had yet to uncover. Xavier Rudd’s latest album Koonyum Sun encompasses the whole-hearted talents of bassist Tio Moloantoa and percussionist Andile Nqubezelo alongside Rudd’s various embedded musical elements. Currently supporting the shut down of whaling in Antarctica and working toward a change in Australia’s gas industry, Rudd uses his strength to fight for us all. A full-time activist, Rudd finds the courage to stand up for causes rooted in environmentalism, anti-whaling projects, art movements, and many more. Often, Rudd helps more than he may give himself credit for. “Sometimes that makes me feel small and sometimes that makes me feel like I have some kind of responsibility to help. I’ve seen a lot of beautiful and wonderful things but I’ve also seen a lot of really confronting things,” he said. It’s all interwoven.” Since his debut studio album in 2002, To Let, Rudd has graced the music scene with messages of peace and togetherness, sorrow and loneliness, all the while drenching his messages in world happenings. “I’m pretty blessed with an existence of meeting lots of amazing spirits and people and places. “My music has always been there and comes through on its own accord and always has, ever since I was little,” Rudd told The Marquee in a recent interview. Since his early childhood, Rudd has always had a fascination for music. Rudd is as eclectic as they come, with instruments ranging from various didgeridoos to djembe drums to slide banjo, from which he crafts a mixture of worldly elements all flowing as one. In some regards, it’s pretty amazing that “Down Under” songwriter Xavier Rudd isn’t from here - well, except for maybe the fact that Colorado doesn’t have waves to ride. Australia first and then back out in the big wide world, the world needs music and I’m ready to share.Xavier Rudd fights the good fights while spreading music :: Xavier Rudd :: :: April 29 :: The Ogden Theatre ::Ĭolorado’s music scene has always proven to be quite vast and eclectic. “Very excited to get out on the road and share this new record and live show that I’ve been working on. The break accelerated a return to the solo mode of creation that first led the barefoot multi-instrumentalist on his phenomenal journey. The wide-open space he'd found himself in - the great COVID silence - was both beyond his control and curiously in-sync. It felt like a wind of change, literally, in so many ways." "We were on a trip north to the Cape and the wind was blowing too hard to take the tinnie out to the island… As I contemplated everything in my life and what was happening in the world there was literally a strong southeaster blowing, all the time. "It hit me last year when I started to write Stoney Creek," the Australian roots journeyman says of the album's first, exhilarating single: a rolling acoustic balm of a song that finds refuge in the simple blessings of rest, companionship and belonging in a world gone crazy.
It’s a recurring image that speaks of wide-open space and the awesome natural elements that shape it: a force far greater than us, but ours to harness if we take the time to learn, reflect and respect its ways. The wind blows strong though Xavier Rudd's tenth album. Xavier Rudd announces his 2022 Australian tour, in celebration of the release of his forthcoming 10th studio album ‘Jan Juc Moon’, out 25th March.
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