May 2010

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Tibet2Timbuk2 home concert earthquake fundraiser

Posted by on 27 May 2010 | Tagged as: Blog

Following our busy Saturday, Tibet2Timbuk2 had another home concert on Sunday, this time in West End. My friends Elliott & Josie, well known around town for their African drumming and dance work, have a lovely spacious patio next to the Brisbane river that is perfect for home concerts. We were a little worried about the cloudy weather but there was no rain and the atmosphere was just fine. We raised $540 for the victims of the earthquake in Kyegundo, Tibet.

DSC01878.jpgSpankinhide opened up the space with some traditional West African drumming

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Yuki brought stillness with Sanskrit

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DSC01906.jpgTibet2Timbuk2 rocked as usual

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Eric Mandala and Will I Am had an impromptu acoustic ngoni session while things wound down

T2T2 @ Arana Hills and amazing Eumundi home concert

Posted by on 27 May 2010 | Tagged as: Blog

Tibet2Timbuk2 had a big weekend this week, kicking off with a brief Saturday afternoon set at The Hills Carnivale in Arana Hills – where they liked us so much they requested us to extend our set from 15 to 25 minutes – and then heading up to Eumundi for a beautiful home concert at The House With No Walls, hosted by Hemi and Linda and organised by Harii Bandhu who has been organising these home concerts for the last 2 years. On Sunday afternoon we had another home concert, but I’ll leave that for another blog post. Meanwhile, check out these great photos… Many thanks to Harii Bandhu, Hemi and Linda for having us. It was an amazing concert, as you’ll see.

DSC01822.jpgTibet2Timbuk2 @ The Hills Carnivale – a 15 minute set which became 25 because we’re so good 🙂

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Yuki opened the Eumundi home concert with some meditative mantras

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Harii Bandhu and Chris Lane did a set of beautiful spiritual music

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Harii joined us for a jam in Daway Wola

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Get down to that chunky Lhasa Beat

T2T2 @ Crystal Waters

Posted by on 05 May 2010 | Tagged as: Blog

This Sunday Tibet2Timbuk2 got back into concert mode with a very special concert at Crystal Waters Permaculture Community near Conondale in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland. A month or so back I’d put out a request on our Facebook page for people to organise some shows for us, and Scott and Rosie at Crystal Waters offered to organise a show there – big big thanks to you guys! We were all really happy with the night, which gave T2T2 an opportunity to really stretch out and play all our songs including a few new ones we’re working on.

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Yuki opened the night with her beautiful Sanskri mantras, joined by Peter and Marcello adding some subtle tones

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Special guest Peter Hunt (Kooii) sang some beautiful jazzy songs, accompanied by Shen on tabla

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We played our slower songs in the first half of the set, culminating in our epic journey “Lotus Born

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Things got dancey in the second half of our 100 minute set. Everyone was getting down to that funky Lhasa Beat by the end.

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We wound up with everyone singing “Aum Mani Padme Hum” together – a new melody we are working on.