![]() ![]() ^ " – Xavier Rudd – Spirit Bird" (in Dutch).^ "Ultratop.be – Xavier Rudd – Spirit Bird" (in Dutch).^ a b Xavier Rudd’s ‘Spirit Bird’ debuts at #2 on the ARIA chart, Vox Magazine, 21 June 2012, archived from the original on 20 March 2015. ![]() Lioness Eye Comfortable In My Skin Spirit Bird Prosper Bow Down Follow The Sun Butterfly Culture Bleeding Paper Thin Full Circle Mystery Angel 3 Roads Creating. Play over 265 million tracks for free on SoundCloud. Satisfied, the crowd did exactly that as they filed out the doors with smiles on their faces and Rudd’s infectious hope in their hearts. ^ Nielsen SoundScan Charts 6 June, 2012 (for the week ending 13 June, 2012), archived from the original on 18 June 2012 Stream Spirit Bird by Xavier Rudd on desktop and mobile. He returned, unsurprisingly, to wow the crowd with a rendition of ‘Lioness Eye’, before making everybody’s evening with the familiar harmonica notes introducing ‘Let Me Be’.Archived from the original on 6 January 2016. "The AU interview: Xavier Rudd (VIC) chats about his new album, 'Nanna', and working with new band, the United Nations!". Archived from the original on 7 April 2012. : CS1 maint: archived copy as title ( link) Archived from the original on 3 September 2012. But the album also shows maturity, both musically (“Comfortable In My Skin” – about Rudd’s surgery – is a gem with earnest vocals and a back-porch harmonica) and thematically, as the musician continues to enjoy and process the beauty and wonder of life. Its representative of Rudds career, as the sparse and warm ∿ollow The Sun could have slipped onto 2004s Solace (and the way Rudd croons the word society conjures Into the Wild images yet again this time of Eddie Vedders soundtrack to the film), quiet Mystery Angel represents his sentimental side (You were there for me when I couldnt find myself), and the nearly instrumental, ten-minute ∿ull Circle dedicates itself almost solely to the guitar, which Rudd has an enormous talent for. Spirit Bird is exactly what any musician would want out of a seventh record. Spirit Birds 13 tracks embody this, as well as divulge deep emotion (times get tough for a bed-ridden surfer dude undergoing major surgery) and ever-continuing musical growth from a man who plays various types of guitar and drums, as well as the didgeridoo often all at once when onstage.įor several tracks, Rudd took a page out of Portlandias Moleskine and put a bird on several songs, including didgeridoo-heavy album opener Lioness Eye, ∻utterfly a delicate tropical tune which the singer says a bird in a tree sang back to him, line by line, while recording– and the title track, which Rudd wrote about a red-tailed black cockatoo that looked right through my eyes, right through the depths of my soul. He also called this the albums chief – with good reason, as it showcases his talent for restraint, ability to blend beautifully with a childrens choir, and capability for belting through the last fourth of a song as if emitting his final notes. The wilderness adventurer and the indie rocker share an unparalleled appreciation for ones connection to the Earth and a fervor to live life for the journey, not the destination. ![]() If Into the Wilds Chris McCandless had cared deeply about the rights of the Aborigines, played the didgeridoo, and dyed his unkempt hair a surfer blonde, he would have had just about everything in common with Australian musician Xavier Rudd.
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