COLIN OFFORD/PETER KELLY-A MERE FINGER POINTING..-LP-POKORA-RARE AUS' AVANT JAZZ
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COLIN OFFORD & PETER KELLY-A MERE FINGER POINTING AT THE MOON-LP-POKORA-RARE AUS' AVANT JAZZ !
In 1978 Colin Offord collaborated with percussionist Peter Kelly to produce A Mere Finger Pointing At The Moon, an album of flute, gong, drums and bells, wind instruments and natural sounds. Each cover was hand painted and therefore unique. It was released on Fringe Benefit Records, which specialized in improvised Avant-Jazz music.
SLEEVE – VG+. Original, one-off hand painted cover (by Colin Offord) with photo/tracklist sheets on back.
RECORD – VG++ to Excellent with clean labels
MUSICIAN & VISUAL ARTIST Colin Offord is a singer, composer, multi-instrumentalist, inventor of original instruments, designer of musical theatre pieces and visual artist. Of Anglo-Celtic heritage, his extensive travels and many collaborations have led him to a synthesis of the artistic and philosophical influences of western avant-garde and folk music, experimental Jazz, East Asian, Aboriginal Australian and Pacific island art forms.
A fusion of music, performance and visual arts his work is a response to the three stages of Australian history: indigenous, colonial and multicultural. Offord’s art is passionate, expansive and genuinely original yet very accessible to a wide audience. He has created an international art form with a distinctly Australasian character. Impossible to label Colin has come to describe his music as Country & Eastern, Pacifica and Australasian.
His activities include: concerts, video projection and environmental events, cross cultural collaborations, the developing and building of original instruments, scores for theatre, new media, circus, film and dance, special events, ,workshops, community projects and exhibitions of his visual art.
Colin has performed at arts and music festivals, in concert halls, theatres, halls and galleries and in schools and universities throughout Australia and the world. He has staged environmental events in volcanic craters, caves, beaches, garden in architectural settings and in the digital realm. He has given performances of his music throughout Europe, North America, East Asia, South Africa and Reunion Island and throughout Australia and the island nations of the Pacific Ocean.
He has represented Australia at Commonwealth Arts Festivals in Auckland and Edinburgh and at World Expo’s in Australia and Spain, for the Sydney 2000 Olympic bid in Monaco and in World Drum Festivals in Canada and Australia. He has been a cultural exchange artist for the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade touring throughout New Caledonia, Tonga, Papua Nuigini, Samoa, Fiji, Vanuatu, Spain, Scotland, New Zealand, Vietnam and Laos.
Side 1:
Uks
Wakening
Streamsong
Bones
Joy
For All The Babies
Messiaen
Tahini
Shamballa
Earthen
Little Celtic Song
Side 2:
Light Your Own Lamp
Not the Wind, Not The Flag
One Way
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