"Andrew is an extremely creative individual, and is always spontaneous,
especially in live performances. His shows feature anything from
traditional Indian 'standards,' or ragas, to hard driving 'thrash-grass.'
On his latest album, "Dance of the Good Life" (2000), he recorded
a tune titled Three Mandolins, where he plays in 3 time signatures
at once. This is the type of thing you can imagine Thelonious
Monk doing. Nevertheless, the result (in stereo!) creates a sensation
of being inside a washing machine. This effect was very hard to
recreate in MIDI, partly because there is no 'mandolin' tone available.
To make the MIDI file more interesting, I have added a bass line
which is not included on the recording. If you want to experience
this trippy sensation first hand, you'll just have to buy the
album."
3 Mandolins painted by Rosemary Bond Gerhardy
- presented at the 2006 Frances Folk Gathering (SA/VIC border)
and now owned by Frances Publican, Nigel Blake.
78min of our most classic mid-year concert to
date.
Featuring Dheeraj Shrestra (Dya Singh Group), The Lawnmowers, Mark Atkins
(Didgeridoo at
the Athens Games), with Parris & PuYu Macleod.
At last, after 5 years and more of gathering performers under the guise
of "AC's Supper Club", we have it's first bold CD release
(or more
specifically an official, by chance, 'bootleg'!).
The nights have been a kind of 'Fringe Club' to the Tamworth CM
Festival. A place where musicians like Oscar Awarded Sophie Raymond,
Paul Wookey,
Peter Horan, Willie Qua (Galapagos Duck), George Washingmachine, Women
in Docs,
Elizabeth Lord, Pat Drummond, Michael Fix, Sam McNally can relax or
send other
players teetering on their guard rails of safety. Those who enjoy the
taste of
fear (er.. flight!) as the music soars around them into unpredictable
paths &
flavours have been gathering - up to 70 through the 15 shows in the
week.
Now since 2002, there have been some mid year concerts to keep the
flame burning. These have leaned into more worldly zones with guests
from Tibet,
Taiwan and Nepal as well as appearing at numerous schools & venues
in the
700squarekm area of Tamworth, Armidale & Barraba.
October 2003 saw Andrew joining Dheeraj Shrestra (Tabla drums from
Dya Singh Group), Mark Atkins (Didg at Athens Games), Parris & PuYu
Macleod
(perenial favourites on Piano & Flute) plus The Lawnmowers (see
below) with local
drum whizz, Randall Wilson in a veritable 'quilt of expression'. The
capture
is fresh, bold and soars as far as we've ever managed to go.
Mind you we can't call it squeaky clean, but there was just too much
fun to hide it away. 78mins of both kinds of music - Real & UnReal!
The Good Road - first
release by The Lawnmowers
(the cutting "Hedge" of bluegrass)
Bluegrass has always held a special place in Andrew's heart as the
many
visitors to the Tamworth Country Music Festival Bluegrass Breakfasts
& Competions
can attest.
For Andrew things started cooking bluegrass wise through his
mid-highschool English teacher, Geoff Bridgland and became the BlackMountain
Boys. Soon
his brother Alex learnt Banjo & they were doing duo floorshows round
Adelaide.
The Uni Folk Club pointed him to the Fountain Inn where he joined newgrass
band, Remnants, (the old tapes are not lost!). He also linked up with
some young
acoustic adventurers and formed, Nuclear Shoes, with the experimentation
he
persued the rest of his life. All this alongside vocal group, Shut the
Gate,
with Peter Hisco while doing Mechanical Engineering? (Well guess what
he ne'r
finished!).
Winning 3 Bluegrass Guitar Championships while pickin & grinnin
across
the country with Brian Young; Golden Guitar Award & LP record (mid
80s) with the
Three Chord Wonders, a hot Live CD with BackBeat entering the 90s; touring
with the legendary Tom T Hall (USA) and then began tangling with multi-Banjo
Champ Dave Hellens over the next decade to finally form....
...at the cutting Hedge of Bluegrass!!!!.....a band with no sense of
humour!!....
Happy as Larryby Andrew
Clermont and Parris Macleod (2001)
The Story . . .
Happy As Larry is a pure Piano & Fiddle CD with
flavours of Celtic to New Age styles. The Title track was nominated
to the Golden Guitar Awards 2002.
Includes Top
5 Nomination for Best Instrumental in Golden Guitar Awards 2000 (trk
6 - Reeling In The Big One) and music from "The Night of the
Piano" (see Andrew's Supper Club). Copies now available.
Made In Taiwan - Live
& Stormy (2000) - Andrew with Jenny Lester(Canada)
& Daryl Jack Melbourne
The Story . . .
A feast of Bluegrass
recorded live at "The Barn", Leofoo Village Adventure Park, Hsin Shu
Country, Taiwan. Only a typhoon or earthquake could stop the show
. . . and the weather came close . . .
The Tracks . . .
1.
Baton
Rouge - Sample (mp3)
2.
Heart
Of Gold - Sample (mp3)
3.
Y'all
Come - Sample (mp3)
4.
Strong
Enough To Bend - Sample (mp3)
5.
Country
Roads - Sample (mp3)
6.
House
Of The Rising Sun - Sample (mp3)
7.
Didgeridoo Blitz with Scotland - Sample (mp3)
8.
Sally
Ann - Sample (mp3)
9.
Stay
Young - Sample (mp3)
"Totally Gourdgeous" Totally
Gourdgeous (2000)
"Joni Mitchell meets James Brown in Bob Marley's Pumpkin Patch
via The Muppets!!"
Totally Gourdgeous
play only instruments made of Gourds!
Penelope Swales
- maker of the Gourdgeous instruments, songs, guitar. mandolin &
Vocals
Mal Webb
- fretless bass, trumpet, mbira, vocals, songs & laryngeal gourdness
Carl Pannuzzo
- djembe, The Voice, foot rattle, percussion,guiro & guitar
Andrew Clermont
- violin, mandolin, guitar, vocals
All performed in totally gourdgeous ways! Naturally!
Six piece Australiana,
Bush and Good Times music. Winner of 'Battle of the Bush Bands' 1999
(as FowlHouse Jack). A vibrant recording, released with Southland/Outback
Music. Produced, arranged, mixed and co-performed by Andrew Clermont
. . . . . .
One of
a series of three albums released in the early days where Andrew includes
other new artists in each production. However, on this tape , Clermont
plays everything with equal fervor and clean technique - a serious
collectors item featuring the Bluegrass Guitar Championship as indicated
below . . . . .
The Tracks . . .
1.
Let's
Have Some Fun - Maguire's Pub Scenario
2.
Lonesome Day - Win in 1984
3.
Brickwall Fantasia - Stephen Berry influence
4.
Red Wine
- Lonely winters by the fire
5.
Dusty
Miller - Win in 1987
6.
Big Mob
- Runner-up in 1986
7.
Rocket
Pilots - Fiddle Mania
8.
State
Of Mind - About people
9.
Apple
Butter - Win in 1985
10.
Just Like
That - The way it happened
11.
Doc Wyland's
Reel - Dede of the Highlands & Corte Madera
12.
I'm Alright
- Can't live without 'em, can't live with 'em
13.
Ground
Zero - Poem by Micheal Dransfield
14.
Soddy
Daisy - Win in 1985
15.
Blacktown - Bothy Band influence
BACKBEAT - The Sessions (1990)
Featuring: 'Radical' Rick Ide on 5 string Bass; Daryl Melbourne on 5 string Stelling Banjo, Lead and Backup vocals; Andrew Clermont on Fiddle, Mandolin, 5 string Electric
Violin, Lead and Backup vocals; Bruce Priddis on 5 piece Drum kit; and Brian Dover on Lead Vocals, Harmonies, Songs and Acoustic Guitar
(he'd like a 5-string though).
The Story . . .
Recorded
live and late at Tathra Studio (Moore Creek), October 1990. All instruments
and voices recorded in stereo for stage sensoround reproduction. We
put forward our best collective foot, left in laughs & jives plus
a good dose of music of the moment.
Featuring: Alastair Black on Didgeridoo; Stephan Richter on Cello & Fretless Bass; Andrew Clermont on Violin, Mandolin
& Dulcimer; and Craig Lauristen on Percussion & Harmonic Flute.
The Story . . .
This
album combines the different worlds of Australian Didgeridoo, European
Strings and Afro-American influenced Percussion in a completely improvised
exploration of the spirit of nature. The spontaneous flow of music
takes the listener on a journey through a collection of aural landscapes,
each featuring a unique combination of melody, rhythm and emotion.
Each journey is separated by a solo didgeridoo interlude which acts
as a narration of the following soundscape.
In recent
times I have taken to writing a Xmas wRap - stories and the odd detail
- covering the year's mischief and wanderings. Before you is a slice
across this past decade or more. A rememberance of journeys, places,
people met, families extended and the music which gathered it together
or set it apart.
Beyond my guitar, mandolin, fiddle or vocals you'll hear "me mates"
cut loose in their own style. For some it was a case of bringing the
mountain to Muhammad. Two large reels of 2" 24 track tape, did the
lap of Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney twice before the contributions
from friends drew to a close. Well it had to stop sometime in the
two and a half years since Richard Porteous first approached me at
Tamworth's Longyard Hotel. He'd said, "its time to record . . ."
The idea
of a group of fiddlers playing divergent styles of music is not new,
though it rarely happens in front of an audience. Everyone tries to
out do the other, whether it be in the fastest Jazz or Irish piece
or the most heart-felt ballad. That's what this album is all about.
The Tracks . . .
1.
Minstrel
Boy, Scaley Devils
2.
Carthy's
March, Lemon Tree
3.
Rose of San
Antone
4.
Give Me Your
Hand
5.
Slow Boat
to China
6.
Danny Boy
7.
Red-Haired
Boy Set
8.
Trade Winds
9.
Ashplant
Set
10.
Talkin' Balkan
11.
Adagio For
Solo Violin
12.
Dion Reel,
Mouth of the Tobique
13.
Ashokan Farewell
New Release:
- Get Reel
– More amazing tracks from the
fun team.
Introducing the Workshop DVDs
with Andrew Clermont
Andrew Clermont Presents - A Crash Course
in...
Guitar
(DVD)
Mandolin (DVD)
Fiddle (DVD)
Digeridoo (DVD)
Intro- The Pick
Wrist & Pick
Arm & Relax
Pick Rhythms
Stretching
Fret Hand & Strum
Into Bass Runs
Better Strum
Nimble Fingers
More Dexterity
Scales!
Picks again
Speed
Rhythm Dynamics
G run
String Break
Tuning
Rhythm Machine
Accents
More Tuning
Intervals
Ideas
Picking patterns
Extras
And
Last Fling
CDs etc
Soundtracks included:
Various from 'Dance of the Good Life' with Parris Macleod
Beginning
Peck the Pick
Useful D scale
Finger Placement
Pick Control
Relaxing the Pick
Irish trill
More D scale
Melody Shapes
Back to Basics
Cross Picking
Speed Exercises
Tremolo
Appeggios
Chord Rhythms
Intervals
CDs to Buy
Soundtracks included:
Two and a Dog & Spinach Inquisition - Totally Gourdgeous
3 Mandolins - 'Dance of the Good Life'
Intro
Loosening up the Body
Holding the Bow & Violin
Loosening up the Hands
Accents for Bow Shuffles
Bow wrist movements
The Shuffle
The Note Intervals
Rhythms
More Shuffles
'Possum Up a Gum Stump'
Various Licks 1
Various Licks 2
Various Licks 3
Trills
Eb & G minor
For Fun
Revising Note Intervals
Wrap Up & CDs
Soundtracks included:
Various Fiddle pieces from 'Happy as Larry' featuring Parris
Macleod on Piano
G'day
The Lips
Circular Breathing
The Essential Circle
With Didg
Tone Changes
Breathing recap
Rhythm
Rhythm 2
Didg Talking
Mid Summary
Long Breath
All together
Low Tone
Other Didgeridoos
Harmonic Trumpeting
Big Didg & Pitch
Wrap Up
Soundtracks included:
'Didgeridoo Blitz with Scotland' (fiddle tune played by Jenny
Lester)) - Live in Taiwan
'The Crest of Gilmont' - The Longing
with Bluegrass to Folk - Rock - Country - a grab of Jazz - a
twist o' lime!
A great guide to breaking out from classical bonds!
Containing what would normally spread through about 4 visits,
this one lesson will take you a long way.
Note: the Focus is on How to Play the Music, not the tunes themselves.
The tools with which to craft the music. Catering also for those
simply starting out, this one is for all-comers. “It’s
like I’m patiently there to show you over & over till
you’ve got it.”
Special bonus: YOU GET TO ORDER YOUR OWN LESSON!
Yep, send me back your questions or ideally return this DVD with
yourself videoed and I’ll send back your next steps to take!
It’ll be that easy. All other instruments will be attended
as orders are taken in “Crash Courses for . . .”
You name it, we’ll show you how - APPLYING SPECIALISTS IN
THEIR FIELD
DVDs are $70 - including 1st Bonus Lesson & enough steps
for 5 lessons or more - great value!
Pauline's Meditative Books,
CDs and DVDs
Songs For The Soul (1999)
The Story . . .
A
collection of songs from Andrew's partner Pauline for meditation
and contemplation; created to help us experience Our Peace Of
Mind. To be At One In The Mind Of God . . . At One With All Creation.
Andrew provides musical accompaniment and backing vocals.
Let
the Sun In You Shine Through (2002)
-A Healing CD with meditation based on recovering from Abuse
The Story . . .
Discovering who you truly are by a willingness
to release and forgive.
When we have traumatic experiences in life such as mental, emotional
and physical abuse we can become trapped in the conscious and
or sub-conscious memory of that experience.
We either repeat negative behaviour patterns or resolve to bring
about change.
To experience healing is to release and forgive. With this CD
we have an opportunity to join as One Mind in healing for ourselves
others andd the planet as a Whole.
1.
Amazing
grace - Sample (mp3)
2.
I
walk with God - Sample (mp3)
3.
Trust
- Sample (mp3)
4.
Silent
tears - Sample (mp3)
5.
Fiddle interlude - Sample (mp3)
6.
Let
the sun shine - Sample (mp3)
7.
Let
life be - Sample (mp3)
8.
Fiddle
interlude - Sample (mp3)
9.
Spoken
meditation - Sample (mp3)
"Child of Light"
A Red Indian (First Nation) style meditation journey with cedar
flute,
healing drum & chanting.
Books - Please
click the cover images to view a sample page.
All Is One (2002)
Written and Illustrated by Pauline
"Totally Gourdgeous" Totally
Gourdgeous (2000)
Home Grown #2 (1987)
BACKBEAT - The Sessions (1990) 
Didgeridoo Interlude - Alastair
Black (1996) 
The Longing (1997)
