There was a long and even longer void in time on this Du-and-didgeridoo website. The reasons for this are probably many…

#1 Du started being very serious about his band Druyd, didgeridoo-istic guitar-ophilic singing family. This means lots of rehearsals, plans, performances. But… there is a place to follow this part of him and it is called druydband.com

#2 He has been recording new album with this same familiar Druyd – and it is now happily out and free on the biggest sea. Even that piece of Du is somewhere around for you to access and (why not?) impress: druyd.bandcamp.com

#3 He now has a new website with his own and very personal didgeridoos. And Du and Da are always in the making of some didgeridoo for himself or for some other Earthman around. That part of him you can always check here: duendedidgeridoo.com

- There have been many and even more concerts all around Europe this summer. And there are more coming, solo and with Druyd. There is even a part of this to experience on another place nearby called Youtube, and here are small links where you can find recent Du’s solo and Druyd concerts at a fantastic Italian didgeridoo festival Didjin’Oz 2010.

#4 At last… Du has been dreaming in the tube world in his studio for some uncountable hours… Very important for him, also important for you if you like his music… But this part is not on the internet. This could maybe be only felt as the invisible part of this website. Even much vaster than the visible part, it is the huge ground for every music he does. And it is immensly beautiful to him. But every now and than a piece of it becomes visible to you and me in this reality. We call it a song.

As you may know, Du makes his own didgeridoos. He has been for some years now. Ever since it happened that when he decided to buy didgeridoo he just could not find any instrument that satisfied his playing needs. And since these instruments became very much a mirror of his own views on playing and, in a way, unique, Du decided to open a small high-end didgeridoo boutique and tube museum. Where everything is about quality, music, details, sounds, experiments, beauty. Didgeridoos are his life passion and I think you will be able to feel that in the new didge cosmic space he is preparing. Very soon it will be open for visitors at this address: www.duendedidgeridoo.com

It will be a small landscape where you will be able to buy didgeridoo-like instruments, but also many articles on didgeridoo playing and philosophy, didgeridoo making, audio-samples and videos. The aim is to spread the knowledge about this both simple and complex instrument. And give some other passionate didgeridoo seekers a possibility to play on instruments of the highest quality that are capable of being the ultimate teachers. A possibility Du himself longed for in the years of active development of his techniques and music worlds.
Well…
you will be able to experience it BY yourself and possibly buy didgeridoo FOR yourself.

Check soon on the deep deep moon;-)  at www.duendedidgeridoo.com

This was a busy, beautiful, enthusiastic month. Du and Druyd decided to make some Christmas cards this year.  And I can proudly present them to you here and now with huge smile over our faces. I invite you for some enjoyment:

I can tell you some secrets about it. This is how it happened. Du one evening discovered the first sentence that has been flying freely and yet untouched in the air of the studio, and with the BIGGEST smile he told us all: “Rinkel Finkel TinkelG Tondo, how would you like a glass of Mondo?”

Then, within a few days, the rest just poured out of him. And the new task was born – to search for music. This was Druyd’s first “film music assignment”! Yr was absolutely fantastic. He would sit on the FAT BOY sofa in the studio with the text in his hands and mysteriously create musical plot out of it.

At the same time Du and I started working on the plasticine! What better job would you ever want as an adult? We spent 10-ish days or so with our hands inside of this strange mass producing uncountable worms J And then with the help of some digital magic it all sat in place. Now it’s here so you can lean against its energy and rest. If you like it, we are happy.

Bajna i sjajna: recenzija Kosmopterix albuma
by Horvi // 16/11/2009

Nekidan je na ovom virtualnom (ne)svijetu i to u području Terapija.net iskrsnula recenzija novog Du-ovog didgeridoo albuma KOSMOPTERIX. Potpuno nas je zapanjila količina superlativa koji su se nekako ušuljali s raznih strana u Horvijev tekst. A i konačna ocjena koju je Du pokupio na ispitu bez pitanja.

Eto. Pročitajte sami:

čitaj dalje…
A album možete i svojim osobnim ušima, nosnim dlakicama i okusnim pupoljcima kušati u njegovom vlastitom kutku!

Du’s new band now has an even newer web page up and standing on its perfectly secluded place in the virtual universe. Druyd is the Heavy Wood Band carved by didgeridoo sounds of Mr Du, guitar beats of Mr Yr and magical voice of Miss BlackMary. They have been heavily working in the field of music-welding and sound-mining for the last few months and now the result has finally gone to the web wide world on its own.

So if you are just a tiny bit interested in hiking through perplexingly hidden landscapes of astral woods, cloudesert kingdoms, curved paths of innerivers and deep sleep wells…… If you are wondering what it’s like to be carried away by songs of the hollow magic wand, the enchanted chord instrument and future-ancient chants… Don’t hesitate – the doors are open.

Try the DRUYD knob here!

There was this didgeridoo-guitar song from far away… called Thought from Faraway. It was sent far to mysterious expert judges this summer and got listened by them and re-listened (I suppose) and in the end they decided to give it a prize! Not a gold crown, but a green ribbon.

The prize is called The World of Music Awards by We Are Listening and is the one and only worldwide contest dedicated to world music. Furthermore, it is the most culturally diverse, multi-lingual music event in the world!

Misao iz daleka reached the finals with nine other songs among whom a very interesting chinese singer Gong Linna won. It is, as you may already know, the last song from the new album Kosmopterix, performed on didgeridoo and guitar by Du and Yr who are playing together in a heavy wood band called Druyd. You can see it all with your own eyes and ears on the official site of the Award and you can peek a little there and be proud with us.

It is after all the thought that traveled amazingly far until now and who knows where else the wind will bring it.

Here it is for you right now:

This is a colourful summer of many events and we hope to meet you somewhere!
Many concerts, workshops, talks, laughs, stories all over Europe and some in America.  A possibility to meet you, talk about didgeridoo related and non related things. Feel free to contact us about anything related to the events and your wishes about it.

First chance is Pula, July 1st -  International festival of alternative theatre. There will be a concert of classically unusual instruments arsenal.

From there we set off to Swiss Didge weekend. Friday, July 03, 2009 – don’t miss it, it starts early! http://www.swissdidgeweekend.ch

Next stop is Berlin for a workshop and maybe some street music.  Saturday, July 11, 2009, 1pm.

http://www.didgenculture.com/

The big France festival is host to Du and his gang of didgeridoos the weekend after that, Saturday, July 18, 2009, a concert is most certain, and some workshops with French translation very possible. http://www.lereve-de-laborigene.net/

Then we have a few days break to work at home, prepare something new and show up again on the biggest small festival on the Isle of Wight -  DidgeHeadRadio festival. There will be a concert, possibly a seminar about making music with didgeridoo, and maybe another workshop about parallel playing and singing. http://www.didgheadfestivals.co.uk

Then just around the corner, a bit over the Atlantic and Du is in the States. There he has a few concerts and workshops, but the biggest event most certainly is JT didge fest. 14. -16. Augusthttp://www.jtdidgefest.com/

The last in the August row is the beautiful  Portugal and its didgeridoo festival, 22nd August.

For more info please visit calendar of events.

Kosmopterix is unbounded and therefore escaped creature of no-place.  A place of living, breathing, running energies… creatures, entities…  It is also a new album from Du’s didgeridoo songsmith workshop. A result of didgeridoo playing  explorations 2007. – 2009.
Theme of Kosmopterix are the usual- non existing topics of worlds unknown, spaces and space forests, landscapes unimagined, very big and very small creatures, reality travel agents, ravens and feathers, winds and skies, big wheels of Cosmos backstage… The usual unusual Du’s points of interest and joy.
The strong focus is on the song life and it’s expression, but if you are a didgeridoo oriented person, you will probably hear some new ways of playing in that life. There are witnesses that Du spent a long time with Nothing, before the new ways were discovered to him. If you are a manic rhythm counter- you will enjoy the uncountable number of countable measures and their transitions. If you are a voice loving person you will notice that voice plays more and more important part of this didgeridoo playing, as a strong thread interleaved with breath.
Songs and feathers of Kosmopterix have a wide spectrum of colour. That is so because their body is generated by didgeridoo sound, and luckily on Kosmopterix there is an instrumentarium that doesn’t fit in a room. The Classical C sound of Stinkirum is now resurected for songs Lake of Awareness, The Spatialist and to a most avantgarde song, Point of Line.
If you remember the soft bass ofthe old song Mandala, you can also find it in songs Koridoro del Sono and Misao  iz daleka.  The rough sharp edges of didge you can hear in WhatIsIt, and the deep long instruments, 4-7meters, can be heard on Putnik, Arhanđeo svega čudnog and the biggest of all – Volvitur in Rota…

The rest of the secrets is up to you to discover….

Secret guests, long forgotten messages and hidden sound passages.

You can hear and get Kosmopterix with electronical feathers here:

Finally available in hard edition to touch and smell here:

Eto… baš u pravo vrijeme izdavanja novog novcatog blistavog albuma Kosmopterix pojavila se jedna recenzija starog hrapavog naboranog i dragog albuma Iz dubina besvjesti. To je onaj Dubravkov komadić upakiranog zvuka iz 2007. kada su stvari bile nekako drugačije i svakako iste. Drago nam je i toplo da je Horvi (prvo) poslušao, (drugo) doživio ljepotu, (treće) napisao par riječi i (četvrto) objavio ih.  Nudimo link na recenziju s džepnog e-zina o zvuku i slici terapija.net: http://www.terapija.net/mjuzik.asp?ID=6641.