Biography

Finalist
of
World of Music Awards 2009
by
We Are Listening!

How do you imagine WIND…TREE…SPACE… EARTH music sounds?

Maybe, maybe, Dubravko can give you a glimpse.

Stop for a moment and feel.
He will stage for you a didgeridoo play or let’s call it the game of windy wooden tubes that allow deep music – from some hidden far place – to emerge.  And make your body vibrate in strange beats. Make your cells dance to the shifted melodies. Make your breath catch the sounds.
Du will try to move you by uncompromisingly utilising his breath, diaphragm, voice, cheeks until it all blends in the didgeridoo into a strange invisible and powerful earth music orchestra. You won’t see it, but you’ll feel the energy from this man with the tube and wonder: where does it all come from?
Well, he doesn’t know.

Without any musical background or ambition Dubravko started playing the didgeridoo 9 years ago and just didn’t stop. Not for his carrier, not for his friends, not for his girlfriend, not even for food some days. His passion grew and his style became distinctly personal and magical. The 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 sound and performance for the Planet.

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 very different tube-like instruments during his performances, each having its own musical story.

> > These days Dubravko is actively working on a new project DRUYD featuring didgeridoo, guitar, female vocals and more.

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)
*Didghead Radio Festival on Isle of Wight, UK (August 2009)
*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)
*Didgeridoo/acrobatic show @ 4th Festival of New Circus, Zagreb (2007)

Instrumentation
Dubravko Lapaine – didgeridoo, extra-long didgeridoo up to 10m, bass-melodica, voice

Discography
KOSMOPTERIX New album released in July 2009.
Rated second best Croatian ethno album 1n 2009 (Croatian Internet Music Magazine glas.ba)
http://dubravkolapaine.bandcamp.com/album/kosmopterix

IZ DUBINA BESVJESNIH, 2007.
Self-released, arranged and produced debut CD.

Lapaine Earth Music Links
Myspace
Lapaine Press Kit
Kosmopterix album

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