Tales of Droëland, by Alex van Heerden & Paul Miller

Tales of Droëland

by Alex van Heerden & Paul Miller

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1.	Die Akkerboom Se Bas 06:56	info	buy track
2.	Sissie My Kind 06:13	info	buy track
3.	Watersnake 09:18		buy track
4.	Le By My (Lie By Me) 09:19	info	buy track
5.	As daar 'n Plaas is 02:44	info	buy track
6.	The Mermaid's Fall 15:49	info	buy track

about

Droëland is a place which exists, and yet seems to be a suspension of reality. Deep in the 'Kouebokkeveld' desert's mountains, inaccessable to cars, electricity, logic and stability, Droëland inhabitants walk the slow, fine line between khoisan shamanism and socio-economic despair. Their mythologies are inseperable from daily life: mermaids, shape-shifting snakes, 'tokoloshes' inhabit all corners of Droëland.

The songs of Droëland are dangerous, playful, mysterious and childlike. To me they are mantras for negotiating the landscape of the Karoo, a gateway between the past and the future.

Spending time in Droëland is like looking at the world through a magnifying glass. During our time there, both Paul Miller and myself were amazed at how the small, minute aspects of the environment become amplified to reveal their complex, normally hidden beauty.

The creation of this album was inevitable, an amplification of the inaudible, the songs of a voiceless people.

Alex van Heerden

credits

released June 1, 2006

Alex van Heerden: voice, trumpet, accordion, Khoisan mouthbow, rhythm and bass programming on all tracks
Paul Miller: software instrument design, arrangement, engineering, mixing, production, mastering
Derek Gripper: viola (track 3), just intonation sampler (track 6), just intonation research
Brendon Bussy: viola (track 3)
Ross Campbell: brush snare (track 4)
Kate Ehrhardt: voice (track 5)
Cover art: Virgil Dejarv & Emma Svensson

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smallfunk Cape Town, South Africa

smallfunk is a label and publishing for the electronic works of alex van heerden, kate ehrhardt, paul miller, derek gripper and magnus johansson.

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discography

hemisfär

Apr 2017
afrodisiac

Nov 2015
Nefertiti

Oct 2008
In the name of bushtech

Sep 2008
bushtech

Jan 2007
Tales of Droëland

Jun 2006

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