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Zealand Musician David Antony Clark is someone I have not come across before,
but this ambient Shamanism-inspired CD is good and does not fall down the
common New Age black hole of being merely a sort of music to torture defenceless
pet animals with! Beautifully produced, and especially lovely to listen to on headphones, the soundscape it evokes is thoughtful and rich. I especially enjoy his use of rhythmically looped animal sounds which could so easily have been tacky but which is not. It has enough credibility and creativity to make me want to hear it again and I absolutely adore the studio craft it exhibits. Nicholas Breeze Wood Sacred Hoop Magazine This artist is, I suppose, a little off my usual beaten path (eh, you haven’t noticed my dirty great tracks through the field of music then?), but listening to just one 50 second sample from the webpage was enough to set me dancing around the loungeroom. David Antony Clark is a New Zealander with wandering feet and a fine sensibilty for writing music that energises while simultaneously laying a soothing paw on your brow. It doesn’t stop there though. He has recorded material from far flung places and absorbed influences from most of them. The result is his latest album Shaman Dancing, one of several that he has produced over the years. Each track is an amazing blend of animal and environmental sounds together with mesmerising percussive pulses, exotic synth embellishments and lush instrumentation. David calls his music ‘neo primal’ and that’s as good a label as any. The title track Shaman Dancing featuring a Susquehannock chant performed by Chief Dancing Thunder is my pick from the samples on offer although the sample doesn’t really do it justice. Dugup |