Charlie McMahon

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Charlie McMahon (2002)

Charlie McMahon (born June 19, 1951 in the Blue Mountains near Sydney ; born Horace Charles McMahon ) is an Australian didgeridoo player.

He founded the didgeridoo world music group Gondwanaland. He was one of the first musicians without Aboriginal ancestry to become known as a professional didgeridoo player.

developments

In 1995, McMahon brought the didjeribone he developed in 1981 to market maturity, a sliding didgeridoo in which the pitch can be changed in a similar way to a slide trombone . The name is a synthesis of the words Didjeridu (in its original spelling) and Trombone (English for trombone). Despite a growing number of different technical versions of sliding didgeridoos on the market, the didjeribone is still so popular due to its easy handling, especially with professional didgeridoo players, that it is now being published in another edition.

In 1997 Charlie McMahon and Peter Paisley developed the Face-Bass , a microphone system for didgeridoos in which the sound inside the mouth is picked up with a seismic sensor. The resulting synthetic sound structures.

Discography

  • Terra Incognita - Gondwanaland [Hot / Log] 1984/1987
  • Let The Dog Out - Gondwanaland [Hot / Log] 1986/1987
  • Gondwanaland / Big Land - Gondwanaland [WEA] 1987 [LOG] 1993
  • Wild Life - Live - Gondwanaland [WEA] 1989
  • Wide Skies - Gondwanaland [Log] 1991
  • Traveling - Gondwana [Log] 1994
  • Tjilatjila / Tjila Tjila - Charlie McMahon [Log] 1996
  • Xenophon - Gondwana [Log] 1998
  • Over Gondwanaland - Compilation [Latisphere] 2000
  • Spirit Of Gondwana - Compilation [Latisphere] 2000
  • Bone Man - Gondwana [Log] 2002
  • Overland - Peter Carolan sampler album [McMahon on "Airwaves" and "Dragonflies"] [Origin] 2006

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personal data
SURNAME McMahon, Charlie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian didgeridoo player
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Blue Mountains , near Sydney