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  • Source: Mark Atkins (musician)

    • 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, Marlene Cummins, Philip Glass, The Black Arm Band and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, among others.
    In Didgeridoo Concerto (1994) he plays for over 50 minutes continuously using the circular breathing technique; an unofficial world record at the time.
    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 Center. The composition was commissioned by the City of Melbourne to relaunch the Melbourne Town Hall Organ.
    Atkins 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, (independent release), 2010
    Dreamtime, ARC Music, 2011


    See also


    List of Australian Aboriginal musicians
    Music of Australia


    References




    External links


    Extended Mark Atkins profile at the Australia Council
    Mark Atkins discography at MusicBrainz
    Yamatji Man – documentary
    Didge Solo Live 2012 Live at The Gnaraloo Shearing Shed – 2012

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