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Blurbs
Latest Mal blurb (incorporating
a bit of workshoppiness):
Around the world and into your brain, vocal adventurer,
multi-instrumentist and looping beatboxing songwriter Mal Webb sings
his songs about all manner of stuff, using all sorts of vocal
techniques, guitar, mbira, slide trumpet, trombone, chromatic
harmonica and a loop recording pedal called Derek. It's a lip to lung
journey
through the physics, physiology and phrivolity of all the sounds a face
can make. Sideways yodelling, beatbox, harmonics, throat singing,
uvular fluttering, advanced clapping. He's like Bobby McFerrin, Aphex
Twin and Cole Porter playing scrabble. Ebulliently eclectic.
Nefariously varied. Family fun free from facile
frippery. "You're a freak!"-Ani DiFranco
A founding member of the Oxo Cubans, Sock and Totally Gourdgeous, Mal
did all the music for the Lano and Woodley TV show and Wogs Out of
Work, played mbira and sang "Eagle Rock" with Ross Wilson on John
Safran's Music Jamboree on SBS and has done a few spots on Spicks and
Specks (ABCTV).
Other blurb stuff so you can
make your own Mal blurb (you can trim it down however you like):
Mal Webb plays
too many instruments in too many styles to too many people. He gives
solo performance a bad name, and that's Mal, whatever your language.
Music that stomps all over stylistic boundaries. It's as grittily human
as it is other worldly, as clever as
it is stupid, as playful as it is ponderous. Ballads,
beatbox and beyond. A jolly jaw dropping journeyman. Eclectic,
ebullient
and even educational.
Workshop blurb.
Around the world and into your gob, vocal explorer and songwriter
Mal
Webb takes you on a lip to lung journey through the physics, physiology
and phrivolity of all the sounds a face can make. Sideways yodelling,
beatbox/mouthdrums/vocal percussion, harmonics/throat singing, mic
technique, uvular fluttering, advanced clapping, vocal
distortion (without hurting) and Inuit panting (way beyond Rolf Harris)
are
all explored on the way to being a band with your voice and the lead
singer too.
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