THE COASTLINE DISPLAYED IN THE SLIDES ABOVE IS ABOUT TO BE DESTROYED BY AN AUSTRALIAN MINING GROUP IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SOUTH AFRICAN GOVERNMENT MEMBERS AND THEIR PROXIES. THE MINING COMPANY IS FORBIDDEN BY LAW FROM DOING THIS IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY. THE SANDS OF THESE BEACHES WILL BE MINED FOR SILICA. THIS IS ONE OF THE LAST RELATIVELY UNTOUCHED COASTLINES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA AND IS HOME TO ENDEMIC PLANTS , INSECTS AND FISH (NOT TO MENTION PEOPLE). THE QUEEN OF THE PONDO PEOPLE WAS OUTSPOKEN AGAINST THIS PROJECT AND THE ASSOCIATED HIGHWAY THAT WILL CROSS IT'S GORGES TO FACILITATE TRANSPORT OF THE SILICA. UNFORTUNATELY SHE IS NOW DECEASED. A DIVIDE AND RULE POLICY INSTIGATED BY THE PROPONENTS OF THIS MASSIVE ROBBERY OF RESOURCES FROM THE PONDO PEOPLE HAS RESULTED IN MUCH ACRIMONY AND CONFUSION ON THE GROUND. ECOLOGICALLY SENSITIVE TOURISM TO THIS REMOTE POTENTIAL WORLD-HERITAGE SITE WAS (AND IS) BEING DEVELOPED WITH THE HELP OF, AND TO THE BENEFIT OF, THE LOCAL POPULATION. IT IS THE 11TH HOUR. IF YOU FEEL IN A POSITION TO HELP IN ANYWAY, PLEASE RESEARCH THE ISSUE (see my blog for starters and some contact info) & BRING THIS ISSUE TO THE ATTENTION OF THOSE INTERNATIONAL GROUPS THAT CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. VIST THE AREA NOW, RIDE THE HORSE TRAILS ALONG THE BEACHES AND STAY IN KRAALS AND VILLAGES ALONG THE WAY. DO IT NOW, SOON IT MAY BE TOO LATE.
Pondoland at Risk. Get involved now! Find out what is going on.
Google: wildcoast pondoland xolobeni sands mine.
Check out the 'save the wildcoast' blog.
Pics: Thanks to the Bateleurs, who take us flying, like a gull, in these clips.
Photographer: Paul Dutton.
Listen to the 1st three songs as you watch the Wildcoast float by beneath you.
Please feel free to download the 'Highway Thru Eden' song.
Influences
Sounds Like
HAVE TO LOVE THIS ONE, MAKES ME HOMESICK!
Festival au Desert 2009-Thank you Mali, you are fantastic!
SURF NAZIS
CHECK ABOVE FOR ROTATING PREVIEWS OF SONGS FROM THE NEW MINI-ALBUM “4-SONGS”. NOW AVAILABLE FROM THE FOLLOWING LINKS: ____* http://www.emusic.com/album/Roger-Seldon-4-Songs-MP3-Download/11060653.html http://www.apple.com/ca/search/ipoditunes/?q=roger+seldon * And more, just Google ' Roger Seldon 4-Songs ' and follow your noses. ______________________________________________________________________
ROGER SELDON. South African-Canadian indie songwriter.
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CLEO nominated finalist in Cape Town's Barleycorn Music Club's 2003 Song Competition.
This occurred during the recording of THE BEAST WITHIN and was based on an unmastered copy of track 10, CLEO (Dan's Version) with a live performance following the initial entry. It was the 1st time I'd had to do that falsetto live. I had hoped they would choose DREAMCHAIN instead! Anyway, I'm glad. Everyone seems to like CLEO whenever I've played it since then and I would probably never have added it to my live sets if I hadn't been "forced" to play it live that night.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------*
ANGELICA GOES TO 1!!!
In May 2005 the unlikely hit song Angelica , Track 9 of "THE BEAST WITHIN" , reached 1 on a top ten recommended list on podcast THE NEXT BIG THING.
This song, with lyrics by poet Mark Meyer, is an obscure, light ditty which has been picked up and played by more radio and cyber stations than the more obvious "hits". One never knows which songs will take on a life of their own. (And Meyer still refuses to explain the poem to me.)
BURDSONG nominated "the lovesong of the decade" as judged by lovers around the world. (Private Joke).
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BIOGRAPHY:
Born and raised in South Africa and travelling the globe now for over 15 years, I finally managed to stop in one place long enough to record my 1st album "THE BEAST WITHIN" in Fishhoek , Cape Town late 2003. Mastered and manufactured in Vancouver , Canada , the album was officially and globally released September 2004.
With over 20 years of songwriting this tip of the iceberg represents the 1st unleashing of my beast within. This album is made up of an eclectic mix of songstyles with some of the earliest tunes mixed up with the new.
Being a gypsy for a lot of years many of the songs seem have become popular at my regular low key appearances around the world. The Hibiscus Coast (see www.southernexplorer.co.za) , Plett , Cape Town; all in South Africa; and Vancouver , Nelson , Northern Vancouver Island and Kitimat in the Wild Northwest of British Columbia have been my regular stomping grounds. More recently Campbell River, Comox, Courtenay and Cumberland, all on vancouver Island, have born the brunt of my stomping. A few of my songs (HEAVY RAIN , DREAMCHAIN , BURDSONG , SAME GAME) have been covered by artists in some of these places (Aden Hinds {http://www.myspace.com/adensounds} Johannesburg , Sean Germond - Cape Town , Barbie Meyer - Margate).
I enjoyed a long and fruitful development period through the 90's playing as a duo with accomplished cellist Christie Staudhammer, initially touring beaches , forests , houses & lakes about Northern Vancouver Island and later the coffeehouses of Vancouver City. We also played around Plettenberg Bay South Africa towards the end of the last Millenium. Sadly , no formal recordings of those years exist , BUT*******SEE END!! IT'S HERE!!!-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*
In late 1996/7 I joined bandmembers Liz Adams , Scott Blackley (Muzzy Pep, The Great Dividing Range {http://www.myspace.com/thegreatdividingrange}) and Patrick Singh in the Whitehorse-based Yukon altpoprock band "HOOP" as bassist for their tour of the East Coast of Australia in early 1997. In mid 1997 we all hitch-hiked off in different directions. Luckily no blood had yet been spilled and all was good.
2004 saw me collaborating with songwriter/slide guitarist Malachi Greenidge in the duo Holy Joe & The sKeptiK. (http://www.myspace.com/malachigreenidge).
Since Malachi moved back to Ontario I've been concentrating on my solo performance, playing venues on Vancouver Island and in Vancouver when I'm in Canada and off shift, and migrating annually to the Kwazulu-Natal south coast in South Africa each year for the surf season and an intense music experience.
Mostly I have been writing and jamming with any inspiring talent I intercept in my wanderings to the abovementioned locales.
The last 10 years have seen me splitting my time between the southern tip of Africa (music & surfing) and the Canadian West Coast (music , snowboarding and , most unfortunately , work). The next album is on the way!! I promise!
In the meantime:
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4-SONGS Roger & Christie
A mini-album featuring Christie Staudhammer on cello.
The songs are now digitally released and available through iTunes and other digital sites.
http://www.apple.com/ca/search/ipoditunes/?q=roger+seldon
http://www.emusic.com/album/Roger-Seldon-4-Songs-MP3-Download/11060653.html
http://hypster.storeblocks.com/P-1999999396/AlbDtl.isl?AlbumID=244680
http://www.mtraks.com/artist/roger_seldon/release/55320-4_songs
http://wblmusic.passalong.com/P-1999999442/AlbDtl.isl?AlbumID=244680
http://whiskeytrippers.passalong.com/P-1999999523/AlbDtl.isl?AlbumID=244680
FOR RINGTONES FROM “The Beast Within” ALBUM:
http://www.groupietunes.com/artists/rogerseldon
FOR THE COMPLETE 4-SONGS STORY SEE THE BLOG
"THE STORY OF THE 4-SONGS ALBUM" includes lyrics, song explanations and credits.
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Hey Doc Rog .. R U doing a KZN South Coast stopover this year? Would be great to jam with u again (probably Lord Farnsworth's I guess). May the "force" be with you and your family.
Hey Roger... I have had time to check your space... love to you and family... you are on my TOP friends now... very genuine. Surf here in Brazil is great and nature is everything... I was born on the 5th of June 1979... NATURE ... Life... Peace out brother...
Hey Roger, great to meet, hang out and chat on the ferry to Quadra. Been listening to your songs. Great stuff. Let me know where you are in August. Would be cool to hang out on the stage.
Hi Roger, it was the beginning of May you came my way with more than one beautiful song you came along and I hope that you'll stay to the end of May... ..and beyond...feel free to respond.
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