![]() That's what the song's about, the world waiting. Rudd wrote the song 12 September, which would feature on his first studio album To Let, about the day after the attacks. Rudd felt "spun out" watching the American media coverage, including graphic imagery of the destruction of the World Trade Center. Rudd was in Canada when the September 11 attacks happened. His music first took him overseas when he traveled to Whistler, British Columbia-Rudd was in a band and would play each night after a day of snowboarding. He drew inspiration from artists such as Leo Kottke, Ben Harper, Natalie Merchant and multi-instrumentalist David Lindley, as well as music from diverse sources such as Hawaiian and Native American music. Career 1998–2002: Early career to debut studio albumīefore launching his solo career, Rudd began playing music as part of the band 'Xavier and the Hum'. He lived in villages around the country for nine months, returning to Australia at age 19. Immediately after finishing school, Rudd traveled to Fiji. He also played saxophone and clarinet as a child.Īs a child, Xavier Rudd sold recycled wood through his own furniture business. While primary school–aged, Rudd used his mother's vacuum cleaner as a makeshift didgeridoo and began playing his brother's guitar. Rudd showed a keen interest in music growing up in a family of seven children. Rudd is of Aboriginal, Irish and Scottish heritage, furthermore mentioning having Wurundjeri ancestry, and that one of his great grandmothers was an Aboriginal Australian, and her child (Rudd's paternal grandmother) was taken away from her. One of his grandmothers was from an Irish potato-growing family and grew up in Colac, Victoria. His maternal grandfather was Dutch, born in Tilburg, a town in the Netherlands, before migrating to Australia. He attended St Joseph's College, Geelong. Xavier Rudd grew up in Jan Juc, near Torquay, Victoria. 2015: Rudd joins with the United Nations.2008–2011: From Dark Shades of Blue to collaboration with Izintaba.1998–2002: Early career to debut studio album.Xavier Rudd plays Byron Bay Bluesfest this Easter Weekend, and we'll bring you his headline set on air Monday night. Jan Juc Moon is the Australian roots star's tenth album. "And I had more time to experiment," he says. "I took breaks, I recorded when I wanted to. Rudd says it took over a year to record the album as opposed to the others he's done in less than a month. "Whereas this album, I did it at home in my home studio, I had tons of time because I wasn't touring." "I'll be touring and I'll find a window in my schedule to go righto – here's three weeks, let's book a studio and let's lay all this down. Rudd says he's traditionally been more of a live performer, but his methods differed when it came to recording this album. "And I sort of have a rule that the ones that stay stay, and the ones that I forget, go." Loading. "I keep all these songs in my head and in my heart. Rudd said he doesn't really write his creative ideas down when they come to him. He says everything worked out and made sense in the end, and it was such a powerful moment in time. "And I was trying to make sense of it all." ![]() ![]() "And it was really tough for me to turn and go from everything. "I had to go and be with my other sons who'd gone up interstate. "I had a little boy who was there and I had to leave. He says the situation he faced was complicated. "And it was a time where I was being drawn away from my home." "It was at the time they said that it was the biggest moon we'd seen – scientists were saying there was this big full moon. "There was a point where there was a big moon in Jan Juc," he says. ![]() Rudd told Howells there was a lot going on for him at the time. "I was able to record his heartbeat, in an ultrasound, and then use that heartbeat as a beat for 'Jan Juc Moon' the song, which to me was really, really powerful in so many ways." He said ten years later he had come full circle and felt a calling to release the song, after being able to capture such an intimate moment from his son in utero. I didn't put it on the Spirit Bird album." "I was going through a bit of a weird time, a lot of change, and it just wasn't time to release that song. "I didn't put it out in the world because it was kind of a personal song," he says. Rudd told Sarah Howells on Stir it Up that he actually wrote 'Jan Juc Moon' years ago – around the time he recorded the Spirit Bird album, which was released in 2012. The song features some pretty special sounds – including the heartbeat of Rudd's son when he was in the womb. That song is 'Jan Juc Moon' – the title track of his new album of the same name (which was also a recent Double J Feature Album). Xavier Rudd is finally ready to share one of his most personal songs with the world. ![]()
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