Dubravko Lapaine - didgeridoo solo
Genres: World / World Fusion / New Age
Label: Didgiland Records
Dubravko Lapaine Bio
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Dubravko Lapaine is a Croatian-based didgeridoo musician and composer - one of the most revered didgeridoo performers in the world. Since 2000, he has been developing new ways of playing this ancient instrument and released a range of audio works (solo albums, tracks for films and animations, music for theater and dance performances) and received international musical awards (World of Music Awards 2009-finalist).
He has been described as "wizard who crams sounds of wind", "almost an oracle" and "actor of a monodrama of vibrations" which serves to show Lapaine's focus on exploring endless possibilities of yet uncharted didgeridoo sound world. His desire to explore the potential deep sound of this most basic of instruments led him to stretch and distort the basic natural design into a multitude of shapes and dimensions (reaching a length of 10m and frequency of 20Hz) resulting in his own unique utterly absorbing performance.
Lapaine's way of playing is characterized by strong physicality and innumerable breaths of perfect precision and speed counterbalanced by melodious voice. This creates a sense of vast space and pulsing density in perfect harmony. Movements of breath, diaphragm, voice and lips blend in the didgeridoo into a strange invisible and powerful earth music orchestra. The music he produces out of various 'wooden tubes' seems to the listener as if coming from a deep unknown origin letting us catch subtle melodies of wind intertwined with rhythmic rumbling of the earth.
It is really with the live stage performance that Du's devotion to music comes to full expression. Using odd Balkan rhythms as inspiration, he has developed his own notion of rhythm that can grow into any measure creating compositions with melody and a richness of sound. Combining this with gestures, stories, and poems the audience is literally grabbed and carried on a journey into and through his own internal fantasy worlds. Dubravko typically uses up to ten different instruments during his performances, each having its own musical story.
Dubravko is also actively working with a trio Druyd featuring didgeridoo, guitar and female vocals.
NOTABLE PAST EVENTS
*Opening ceremony of the World Handball Championship in Split, Croatia (January 2009)
*Le Reve de Aborigenes Festival in Airvault, France (July 2009)
*RhythmTree Festival on Isle of Wight, UK (August 2009, 2010)
*Swiss Didge Weekend in Wiedlisbach, Switzerland (July 2009)
*Opening ceremony of Dubrovnik Summer Games @ Dubrovnik, Croatia (July 2008)
*Didjin'Oz 2008 in Forlimpopoli, Italy (November 2008, 2010)
*Didgeridoo/acrobatic show @ 4th Festival of New Circus, Zagreb (2007)
DISCOGRAPHY
KOSMOPTERIX - Album released in July 2009.
Rated second best Croatian ethno album 1n 2009 (Croatian Internet Music Magazine glas.ba)
http://music.lapaine.com/album/kosmopterix
IZ DUBINA BESVJESNIH - Self-released, arranged and produced album in 2008.
DRONAS / by Druyd - Album released in July 2010.
Debut album of Druyd, didgeridoo-guitar-female vocals trio.
http://music.druydmusic.com/album/dronas
Photos
Video
More videos can be found at http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dubravko+lapaine&aq=f.
Music
Press
"For the duration of the half hour concert, a crammed Sax could be convinced of what the "new sound" really is and
will most probably remember this performance for a long time to come as it was throughout quite a rarity in a sea of
pop, kitsch and outright copy/paste imitations."
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-Horvi, Glas.ba - Internet Music Magazine
"...it is just unbelievable what Lapaine
can extract from these tube-like instruments of murmuring sounds. Whisper, escape, scream, green,
blue, universe, ground, fire, water… "
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-Vjesnik, 7 i 8. 10. 2008.
"Lapaine is a wizard who crams sounds of wind into three long, wooden wind instruments and modifies them at his
will, forming them into subtle sound sculptures. It often reminds one of electronic effects, beats and diabolical
samplers..."
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-Horvi, Glas.ba - Internet Music Magazin
Nada Sostar, blog DUBOKO MORE - February 9, 2008
Last night in “Stara Trešnja” Circus of Wind was performed by Dubravko Lapaine – our didgeridoo musician (?!), dancer of didgeridoo music (?!), actor (?!) of a monodrama of vibrations, poet (?!) with tubes, searcher of the meaning of our pre-beginnings, recorder of vibrations and poetry, creator of mandala by wind, acrobat of the wind…. I simply must admit I am still so impressed that I don’t know where to begin.
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-Nada Šoštar,Blog DUBOKO MORE, 09/02/08
"Du, definitely one of the most prolific and amazing didgeridoo players in the world, creates an acoustic environment
of different music instruments just by playing his didgeridoo."
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-Katja Ceglar, director, Kulturni dom Krsko
"His unbelievable abilities on the didgeridoo surpass every preconceived idea - his beats and rhythms pull in the "other side" while at the same time bring us down to earth.Dubravko has transformed the traditional sound of the didgeridoo, which is no longer just a "tribal instrument", and yet creates "tribal" worlds."
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-Breda Špacapan
Gigs
Upcoming Shows
Past Shows
All past shows can be found at Show Archive Page.
Technical Requirements
Download the Druyd's technical rider (includes the stage plot, equipment requirements, and full technical description).
Contact
Lapaine Management and Booking:
Danka Tisljar
Bleiweisova 24, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
mail | danka.tisljar@gmail.com
phone | +385 95 8026100
Booking for Slovenia:
Katja Ceglar
mail | katja.ceglar@guest.arnes.si