My name is Troy Page and I’m a didgeridoo enthusiast and video production artist. This blog follows my experimental journey of making and playing didgeridoos, recording music and making videos, as well as stories of the people I meet and the places I visit along the way.Click here to e-mail me.
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Flood Page, “Tranquility” Big Island Style
In 2009 Encinitas resident and guitarist Tim Flood embarked on a vision quest to the Big Island of Hawaii. There Tim met my father Brant Page and spent a few days helping out on the coffee farm I grew up on. Brant encouraged Tim to connect with me upon his return to California. At the time I had recently moved to Encinitas and thanks to my pop, Tim and I met up and we quickly became good friends.
This video has been years in the making. In fact, I started filming for it a decade before I ever met Tim. In 2000 after I finished high school, I gathered up all the money I saved from videotaping weddings and shooting photos of Hilton Luau guests and spent it on a Sony VX2000 DV camcorder. It was my favorite toy and it went everywhere with me including a couple dozen strenuous Big Island hikes and camp-outs.
I’ve always been amazed by how beautiful our world is and when she shows her magnificence I feel the need to capture it. At the time I didn’t know what I’d be using it for, but I was going far out of my way to capture it. Tim tells me, “You were receiving the download.” Yes, “the download”!
The timing was perfect for shooting this performance, I had just finished constructing the largest didgeridoo I’ve made to date. Eight feet long with a bell a foot wide, plays in the key of C. Spring bloom was in effect and Tim’s Encinitas backyard had nasturtium flowers blooming all around a small wood deck, a perfect colorful stage.
We both feel it’s fitting to have our music paired with the beauty of the Big Island as our first music video. It brings the Flood Page story full circle.
Video with 1 note
“All Fly Like Eagles” - Healing Vibrations For Japan
This project came about when my friends Tim Flood and Michael Joseph Ferguson asked me to join them in a concert event they arbitrarily planned for March 19th, 2011 titled “Music For The Planet”. They started preparing for this event months ahead of time and just one week before the concert, a devastating 9.0 earthquake and tsunami hit Japan.
Japan was on every one’s mind but there were also a number of other things happening at the same time. On the night of our performance, a multi-state coalition led by US, British and French forces started a bombing campaign against the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and his army. Also the night of our show we were experiencing a full moon that happened to be closest to earth since 1992. I got a glimpse of the moon as it rose over the eastern hills that late afternoon and it was noticeably larger then I had ever seen before. Plus, March 19th happened to be the eve of the Spring Equinox placing our event on the last hours of winter. Good night to slow down to songs of positive intention.
This song is an American Indian chant call, “All Fly Like Eagles” and this performance was my first time playing along to this chant. Pre-show during rehearsal & mic-check, Michael asked me, “Do you have a b-flat didgeridoo?” My favorite didgeridoo at the time was in the key of b-flat, but I left it at home because b-flat wasn’t going to be used in any of the other songs we planned that night. Luckily my roommates attended and brought my b-flat didge just before the show started, and we were able to sneak one last song into the mix. “All Fly Like Eagles” became my favorite performance of the event. I especially liked hearing the audience join in.
Our performance was held at a little yoga studio in Del Mar, Bindu Yoga. The next day a large storm rolled in and my friend Matt and I took a trip back to Del Mar to film the weather. Over the duration of the week- long storm I picked up shots here and there and added them to the video.
Drawing from my experience working for truthout.org, I searched the photo website flickr.com for creative commons photos related to the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. (Creative commons photos are photos that have been authorized by the photographs owner, enabling others to legally re-purpose the image {under preset guidelines} without having to pay royalty fees). Thanks to these photographers contributing to creative commons I was able to add a montage of disaster, rescue and relief images to the video.
I hope that my efforts in creating this video leads to more donations towards those Japanese earthquake and tsunami survivors in need.
Michael Joseph Ferguson - lead vocal, acoustic guitar
Tim Flood - electric guitar, backing vocal
Troy Page - didgeridoo
Prem Das - tabla
Jill Jancic - backing vocal
Video Shot & Edited By
Troy Page
Audio Engineer
Tim Flood
