Jay Atwood
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Jay Atwood plays the didgeridoo and the Bronze Age Irish Horn with the popular Celtic group, The Wicked Tinkers.
The Following is used with permission of the author. It initially appeared on Jay Atwood's home page http://www.jayatwood.com
From the tribal drum circle to the orchestra pit, Jay Atwood walks between musical worlds like an ancient shaman, drawing power and inspiration from primal sources.
A graduate of Boston's Berklee College of Music, Atwood has a strong grounding in the Western musical mainstream. He has served on the faculty of the Boston Conservatory, and spent many years conducting professional theatrical productions around the U.S.
But Atwood's musical path took an unusual turn when he first heard Wicked Tinkers perform in 2000. “I knew from the first bagpipe blast that these guys were something special” says Jay. “The music just roared, and so did the Tinkers! The band was screaming at the audience, the audience was screaming back, and they were all dancing like the intoxicated acolytes of some primitive Celtic god. …I loved them immediately!”
In September of 2005, Jay joined Wicked Tinkers on didgeridoo and bronze-age Irish horn. Now, watching him perform (often in tribal face-paint) it is easy to imagine that he is a priest of that primitive cult - summoning the spirits of rhythm and energy, and channeling them through the didgeridoo right into the pounding hearts and dancing feet of the gathered tribe.
While touring with Wicked Tinkers, Jay still finds time to create new, original music. His latest release, Bonfire Dreaming, has been described as "Expansive, fourth-world tribal spaces that will set your spirit to dreaming and your belly to dancing."
On this CD, Jay brings together exotic Middle Eastern melodies, Indian ragas, tribal drums, and the mysterious rhythms of the Australian didgeridoo; and fuses them all with his unique style of sensual electronica.
[edit] Solo discography
- Bonfire Dreaming
Thistle Pricks Productions, 2006 Original world beat CD
[edit] Studio credits
[edit] Tempest: The Double Cross
Magna Carta Records, 2006 Guest artist: Didgeridoo solo on track #8 “Cabar Feidh”
[edit] Beatles ReGrooved
Koch Records, 2005 Tomorrow Never Knows (Lennon/McCartney)
[edit] Christmas ReGrooved
Koch Records, 2004 Good King Wenceslas (trad.) White Christmas (Berlin)
[edit] Classics ReGrooved
Koch Records, 2003 Habanera (Bizet’s Carmen) Night on Bald Mountain (Mussorgsky)
[edit] Christmas Chill
Koch Records, 2003 God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (trad.)
[edit] Piano Moods
Time-Life Music (unreleased), 2000
- A commissioned, 2 CD set of romantic piano standards, arranged for piano and orchestra
[edit] Ghost & Vampire Legends of Rhode Island
Public Television Station WSBE TV-36
- Composer and Performer of original score
- Regional Emmy Nominee: New England, “Outstanding Cultural Interest Program”
[edit] Music Play by Play
Radio Pilot WQXR Radio (NYC) and Time-Life Music, 2002 Associate Producer and Audio Editor
[edit] Road Kill - The Best of Michael Feldman’s ‘Whad’Ya Know?’ on the Road
Newport Classic, 2001 Co-Producer & Audio Editor
[edit] Reflections of Newport County
Greenwood Magick, 1998 A self-produced album of original piano music Created for the Newport, RI Travel Industry
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