Tarab - Travels with my guitar
Carl's book 'Tarab - Travels with my guitar' is available in all good bookshops in Australia and New Zealand from or on line through Transit Lounge Publishing or Boomerang Books
Carl Cleves
Carl Cleves,
Flemish songwriter and guitarist with The Hottentots, ethnomusicologist
and traveller, has released 2 new solo albums and a book of road stories
in 2008.
'ALL ALONE' is Carl's first solo album of story songs since his 1980s
Brazilian releases. The album is populated by refugees, addicts, a child
beggar, a drunk driver, the smell of money, the tears of broken hearts,
the rage of obsession and the joys of solitude & travel. His song,
"The Rose of Kordofan" from 'ALL ALONE' was chosen from amongst
thousands of entries to win the national Australian Songwriters Award
for BEST LYRICS.
'TARAB - Travels with my guitar' is Carl's first book of road stories.
A new CD of songs related to the stories in the book was released jointly
and features rare Brazilian recordings as well as songs written for The
Hottentots and new material.
From the Sudan to Northern New South Wales, Tarab is an epic, mesmerizing
tale of high adventure and the search for meaning. Carl Cleves escapes
national service in Belgium to live in South Africa at the height of the
Apartheid era. So begins the adventures and quests, wanderings and narrow
escapes, mishaps and illuminations of a guitar-toting troubadour in his
roles as young beat poet, law student, single father, ethnomusicologist,
relief worker in India and recording star in Brazil. Cleves's page turning
memoir is no simple music biography, but rather the story of an artist's
quest for Tarab: a place where music and poetry bestow true bliss upon
the lucky one.
Carl's nomadic past results in highly original songs which have won many
awards in world & roots categories - most recently, MUSICOZ &
Australian Songwriters Association - BEST FOLK SONG AWARDS.
Carl's unmistakable guitar style was learnt from Brazilian players, bluesmen,
Bert Jansch & Caetano Veloso, from the American banjo and the arabic
oud. Traces of Brazil, Africa, folk and blues are the spice in the stew
of Carl's songs which range from polyrhythmic exuberance to intimate subtlety,
the personal to the political. Poetry and emotion.
contact: Carl Cleves, PO BOX 1492 Byron Bay, NSW, Australia
+ 61 2 5613 0031
carl@carlcleves.com
myspace: www.myspace.com/carlcleves
youtube: www.youtube.com/CARLCLEVES
New
Releases
All Alone
buy
CD here: www.indie-cds.com
or now internationally available and downloadable through CD
Baby
listen
Tarab Travels with my guitar
buy
CD here: www.indie-cds.com
or now internationally available and downloadable through CD
Baby
listen
For album track lists and discography
click here