Valley support welcomed at Songwaves launch
1 Jul 11
A big thank you to all our valley supporters from the Songwaves team.
We were totally blown away by the support of Kangaroo Valley people for our Songwaves project.
So many of you came to the launch and have purchased a CD or are stocking our CDs.
We really appreciate it.
The Songwaves CD is for sale at Café Bella and the Kangaroo Valley Post Office.
A really nice part of the Songbirds and Songwaves project is the way our artists start networking and promoting each other.
Jeremy Butterworth is a great example of this.
Jeremy said “Being a part of the Songwaves project was a great experience and I was very inspired and impressed by the depth of local talent that we have.
I feel very grateful to Ben, Liz, Karen and Sarah for putting it together and creating such a great opportunity and event”.
Jeremy’s band the Bhagavad Guitars recently released a new CD “Unfamiliar Places” so Jeremy was juggling promotion, rehearsing and gigs for our Songwaves Cd as well as the band. Well done Jeremy
Locally grown CD Unfamiliar Places gets 4 ½ stars
"The Bhagavad Guitars have truly crafted an album that is soaring in its pop momentum and genuinely brilliant in its depth of song craft".
4 ½ STARS Denis Denutu - Time Off
This is an excerpt from a string of rave reviews for the Bhagavad Guitar’s newly released album ‘Unfamiliar Places’. “The first review was a very positive 3½ stars from the SMH” explained Jeremy, “then they kept getting better with 4 stars from the JB Hi Fi Music Australia guide and many other similarly extremely positive reviews from various media.
“Even though I know that one shouldn’t worry about what the critics say, it is a relief when you have poured your heart and soul into a project to see it been very well received”.
The album was born and raised in the Shoalhaven, mostly at Jeremy’s place in KV and some of it down the coast in Berrara.
The other members of the band live in Canberra and Sydney, and so Kangaroo Valley is where most of the band’s rehearsals and music creation takes place.
The recent CD launch was held at “Notes” in Newtown, where the band’s performance was described as ‘absolutely surpassing their reputation for excellent live shows’.
The whole show was a very special event, having support acts from old friends who were members of bands of a similar era: The Hummingbirds, The Clouds and Crow.
Jeremy described it as “one of those very rare shows where we couldn’t fault our performance and we couldn’t imagine anything going any better”.
Playing in a venue with a great performance space and excellent live sound being operated very professionally, made it all the more possible.
A new music video to the second song on the Bhaga’s album, Horizon to Horizon, has just been released which is mostly filmed in KV.
It is something of an escape anthem, light heartedly, yet powerfully addressing the concept of dealing with domestic drudgery by getting out into the great outdoors – inspired by camping trips and mountain biking.
View it via the band website below.
Unfamiliar Places is on sale in the KV supermarket, which is kindly selling it at the wholesale price of $20. Jeremy is grateful for their support and encouragement. “We’ve had a lot of feedback from people who’ve bought the album with many saying it’s an excellent one to have on while driving, and that it grows on you more and more over time as you appreciate the various elements in it”.
To check out more about the band visit their website at
www.bhagavadguitars.com
Liz Aitken