“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. He was also quite the performer, at one point he went bouncing round the stage with his didgeridoo and address the audience throughout with a confident and entertaining manner.Īll in all a great show, one that took me back.The wind blows strong though Xavier Rudd's tenth album. But all were catchy and I found myself hearing them in my head in the days following, especially the tracks like ‘Solace,' and ‘Let me Be’! He has kept this message in his general style as well, by using the didgeridoo in most of the tracks and through the use of aboriginal sample harmonies he's able to give the tracks a distinctive and earthy feel. He is also a great songwriter, many of his songs had a theme of spirituality, peace, nature running through them, kind of a modern ‘hippy’ feel to them. Me and some friends had tickets to see Jack Jackson in Byron Bay and luckily he was the support, and what a support! To say he's a multi-instrumentalist is an understatement! He is a complete one man band, he sat on stage hid behind an array of instruments, a drum kit, extra percussion instruments, a number of guitars and didgeridoos. I was travelling ‘down under’ at the time and had heard his name banded around but was yet to hear what all the fuss was about. When I first saw Xavier Rudd I had no idea what to expect, he was largely unknown to me. 2010 brought a new album and a new band to fit including bassist Tio Moloantoa and percussionist Andile Nqubezelo. Rudd’s 2007 tour in support of his 2007 album “White Moth” was lauded by critics for being entirely carbon-neutral and the album introduced darker themes which are observable in his follow-up “Dark Shades of Blue” in 2008. Rudd is widely known and appreciated on the festival circuits in Australia and Canada, and is equally appreciated in both countries for his socially conscious lyrics often regarding the mistreatment of aboriginals. Love & Special Sauce and later released the live album “Good Spirit” and the Studio album “Food in the Belly” in 2005. Becoming more well know Rudd toured with Jack Johnson and G. 13 and became a platinum selling album, due to distribution via Universal Records Australia. His sophomore released named “Solace” saw Rudd’s introduction to the Australian music chart debuting at No. Their next tour date is at Seafront Oval on the Esplanade in Hervey Bay, after that they'll be at Byron Events Farm in Tyagarah.
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Rudd’s first recording titled “Live in Canada” was released independently in 2001 and made way for his debut studio album “To Let” in 2002. Xavier Rudd Full Tour Schedule 2023 & 2024, Tour Dates & Concerts Songkick Xavier Rudd tour dates 2023 Xavier Rudd is currently touring across 8 countries and has 15 upcoming concerts. Rudd has also perfected the art of circular breathing on the didgeridoo, often seen with jazz musicians, he is able to produce a singular drone sound that never falters. The list of instruments Rudd is able to play cannot be counted on a single pair of hands, from Weissenborn slide guitars and banjos, to harmonicas and Aztec Organettes, the Australian musician’s set up surrounds him with the capacity for sound. These skills were honed and expanded on during his years travelling and busking. Growing up Rudd learned to play the guitar, clarinet and saxophone however sought ways to overlap and interweave various instruments at once.
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