L.A.Outback carries a wide variety of didgeridoo music on CD by dozens of artists not only from Australia but all over the globe. Whether you are looking for solo didgeridoo music or something more contemporary, we'll have exactly what you are looking for. We also carry Didgeridoo educational CDS, videos and DVDs to help you along the way in learning how to play didgeridoo.

The sound of a didgeridoo found me in 1995 when I heard it for about 10 seconds on the kitchen radio. Its blend of simplicity, richness, and purity captivated me. I’ve had the good fortune to make music in the streets for the last six years and I’ve discovered that my beliefs about life and music have changed as a result. In the beginning, I had a model in my head of what a didgeridoo should sound like and I struggled to play the “right” way. Later, I discovered that as I focused my efforts on being “right” I neglected my own creativity and discounted other modes of expression and being. As a result, I started to hold my beliefs more loosely and left space for other ideas to show up. I’ve noticed that the less effort I use and the more authentic I am, and the more I play from the heart instead of the head the simpler it is for other people to be just as they are regardless of age, gender, culture, or class.

The didge introduced me the importance of simplicity and authenticity. It's difficult to hide your true self in music just as it is difficult to hide yourself from life. Struggling with and hiding from life are things we bring upon ourselves mainly due to our own way of thinking The world is not something outside, it’s very close, it’s within each of us and what we call “truth” is nothing than just our very own truth - our perspective.

This journey of simplicity continues to teach me that if we learn to trust ourselves and feel our feelings something truly magical happens: spontaneity, love, and inner peace. We don’t have to train our will to be ourselves, to be is just enough. Simply being, without judgement, affords others the opportunity to do the same. Get quiet. Listen. Feel. Trust. For me, making music is a magical dance of give and take, of leaving space and melting together. Idon’t know if my style is “right”, but it feels great!

At 16 years Charlie lost his right hand while experimenting with rockets in his backyard.  He reckons it was not all bad for afterwards he “hooked” into school work & won a university scholarship. He holds an Honours degree in Government & Economics from Sydney University. In 1975 was appointed to the academic staff, teaching & researching town planning.
 
Finding academic life “too much talk” Charlie took to the bush and learned skills he’d previously thought impossible one-handed. In 1978 Charlie was appointed an adviser in the Department of Aboriginal Affairs (now ATSIC) in central Australia,  which at the time was moving from administering big settlements to encouraging self determination.  While on secondment to the notorious Papunya Settlement 200km west of ALICE SPRINGS, some Pintubi elders showed Charlie the WESTERN DESERT country they called home.  They asked if he could find & develop water bores so they could move back.  Charlie resigned from the DAA to work for the Pintubi’s Councils.  By 1984 a line of water bores extending over 400km into the GREAT SANDY DESERT & across the NORTHERN TERRITORY border into WESTERN AUSTRALIA was established.

“Never a dull moment in those seven years in the swag” Charlie says.  “I wouldn’t really  call them highlights, but some big moments were being bitten by a venomous snake while asleep & the encounter with a group of nine nomadic Pintubi (the so called “Lost Tribe”) at KIWIRRKURRA,  where we were erecting the windmill on the last bore.

David has travelled extensively playing didgeridoo throughout Australia and the World, including Europe, Asia and the USA with world renowned dance troup, "Tjapukai", which he co-founded. He promotes awareness of Aboriginal culture and tradition wherever he travels. David has a diverse career and is internationally renowned as a musician, artist, entertainer, and presenter. His work is considered "contemporary" yet has a very definite traditional influence. David is inspired by all the natural elements of his environment and with each work he creates, he wholeheartedly gives a part of himself and his culture.

His distinct blend of Australian indigenous and contemporary world music captures the essence of one of the oldest cultures on earth and with it transcends the boundaries of time. His music has been described as the soul of the Australian Dreamtime landscape with a timeless quality reflecting a deep connection and reverence for the spiritual wisdom of his ancestry.

A member of the Larrakia Nation, the traditional land owners of Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia, Ash is an ambassador of his culture through his music, storytelling and live performances. Ash was classically trained in music from the age of eight on trumpet and came back to his cultural roots at the age of twenty two. His grandmother and great uncle, both traditional elders of the Larrakia people were instrumental in his musical adoption of the Didgeridoo and its deeper cultural significance. Through them he came to know of the Didgeridoo's unlimited potential for the expression of rhythm and its ability to represent the power of the natural and spiritual worlds. The vocal harmonies used in traditional corroboree‘s (ceremonies) and the natural voice of Australia’s native song birds have also had a great influence on his musical compositions.

In 1997 Ash tasted his first major success recording with world music producer Jim Wilson on a compilation album entitled "Tulku Season of Souls," a Polygram release that went top ten in the US World Music charts.