Mark Atkins (musician)

Mark Atkins (musician)
Mark Atkins

Mark Atkins at a festival in Maastricht, 2001
Background information
Born Albany, Western Australia
Instruments Didgeridoo

Mark Atkins is an Australian Aboriginal musician known for his skill on the didgeridoo, a traditional instrument.

Mark Atkins is also a storyteller, songwriter, composer and painter. He descends from the Yamatji people of Western Australia. He was the 1990 winner of the Golden Didjeridu competition. He has worked with Robert Plant and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, Hothouse Flowers, Philip Glass, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, among others.

In 2001 he collaborated with Wurundjeri elder Joy Murphy Wandin and composer Philip Glass in the concert work Voices, performed at the Melbourne Town Hall and New York's Lincoln Centre. The composition was commissioned by the City of Melbourne to relaunch the Melbourne Town Hall Organ.[1]

Mark was profiled in the television documentary Yamatji Man in 2003

Discography

  • Didgeridoo Concerto 1994.
  • Plays Didgeridoo 1995.
  • Didgeridoo Dreamtime ARC Music, 1999.
  • The Sound of Gondwana: 176,000 Years in the Making (compilation), Black Sun Music/Celestial Harmonies 1997.
  • The Rough Guide to Australian Aboriginal Music (compilation), World Music Network.
  • City Circles.
  • Ankala : Rhythms from the outer core World Network.
  • Ankala & World Orchestra : Didje Blows the Games World Network.
  • Walkabout.
  • Creeper Vines and Time Maguari Productions.
  • "Didge Odyssey" 2006
  • "The Reason To Breathe" 2006
  • "The Bushman" 2010 (Independent Release)
  • "Dreamtime" 2011 (ARC Music)

See also

References

  1. ^ Philip Glass, Voices for Organ, Didgeridoo and Narrator, Composed 2001, Philip Glass website, Accessed November 1, 2008

External links


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