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Tommy Adolfsson Conch blower

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Released: May 10, 2010
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  • Genre: Electronica / Experimental / Folk

    Location Stockholm, Sv

    Profile Views: 19457

    Last Login: 5/8/2013

    Member Since 12/2/2006

    Record Label SLASK RECORDS: SLACD 009

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    Contact: Tommy Adolfsson E-mail: t.adolfsson@comhem.se Phone: +46(0)705942386 The Artist: Conch blower Tommy Adolfsson is the only professional musician on conch shells in Sweden. 1984 he heard the music of conch shells in the temple of Mahabalipuram, India during a tour with the Swedish group, the Bitter Funeral Beer Band, playing at the Jazz Yatra Festival in Bombay and Delhi. --------------------------------------------------------------------The sound of the sea shells (conch) touched him deeply and since then he plays different kind of seashells from the Indian, Pacific, Caribbean and the Atlantic Ocean. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The symbolic and history of the seashell: Around the whole world you can hear people blowing into seashells. As fanfare at openings of ceremonies, like wedding ceremonies in Hawaii, at demonstrations against France test explosions in Muroroa, in shell orchestras in Haiti, at conch blowing festivals in Key West and at religious ceremonies in the temples in India, Sri Lanka and Tibet. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Symbolic: The whorls of the seashells symbolise new life, the master of the water, the voice of Buddha. The holy word Aum is created from the shank , Turbinella. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Shells for music, Conchhells: The Fanfare shell, Indian Chank, Turbinella pyrum, can be found in South India and Sri Lanka. It is the heaviest shell for their size in the world. Size: 13 cm and 4 kg. It has a strong, magic and penetrating sound. A smaller Indian Chank with a size of 10 cm has a more sacramental and melancholy sound and is very suggestive and touching. Australian trumpet, Syrinx Auranus, is the worlds largest gastropod. An apricot coloured giant with a size up to 75 cm and 12 kg. Tommy's is only 65 cm and 9 kg. Found in the north of Australia. The sound is very heavy and powerful. Giant Frog Shell, Tutufa bubo, is a fast and dramatic music shell. Size 17 cm. Found in the Indo - Pacific. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Strombus Gigas, a solid shell used as a trumpet in the Carribian Islands ---------------- Trumpet shell, Charonia Tritonis, used by the Greeks as a fanfar shell------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- He is born 1953 in Ljusdal, a small village in the north of Sweden. Tommy started as a young boy to practise the trumpet. Followed by experiments on hose-pipe, vacumcleaner-tubes and all kind of things you could blowon. Now he plays conch shells, trumpet, electric trumpet with electronic effects, water trumpet, nordic overtone flute, wooden cornet, Swedish woodhorn, Tibetan horn, hosepipe, water, glass and schamandrum. -------------------------------------------------------------------- He studied music at different music schools, by private teachers and in Africa, India, China, Indonesia, Tuva in Siberia and Europe. He has a vast knowledge about other cultures. During some years he studied development studies at Sussex university in England. -------------------------------------------------------------------- His music career as a musician: 2010 - Tenzing prize award - the County Administrative Board, Hagaparken - Karl Brothers consert - Materia Scandiform Showroom 2009 - Åmål Art Tracking - University of Agriculture - Salong Giraff, Vita Bergsparken - City Hall, 2008 - The Swedish Museum of Natural History - World library Stockholm 2007 - Making change Happen, Malmö Conferens of Sustainable City Development, Kunskapsdagarna, Malmö The Swedish Species Information Centre, Trondheim, Norway Conserts at The Coloni, Art project i Stockholm 2006 - work as Conch blower and trumpet player. do conserts and performances 2003 - 06 didn not play music because of problem with the cheeks, 1995 - 03 soloartist as conch blower, 1995 - 03 with the singer Chime Topgyal from Tibet living in Sweden, ---- 1990 + 94 The Swedish Radio jazzgroup P H Wallin and Roland Keijser, ---- 1986 - 98 with the South African poet Lefifi Tladi Ensemble, ---- 1980 - 87, Bitter Funeral Beer Band/Bengt Berger/Don Cherry. Funeral music from Ghana, ---- 1980 - 85, ISKRA, free improvised music, ---- 1978 - 92 in African and Japanese drumclubs, ---- 1976 - 96 Duo Karl Brothers, world-, conch- improvised music, ---- 1974 - 82, 1974 Archimedes Bathtub, worldmusic ---- 1970 - 75, pop , improvised- and jazz music ---- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Composer: for modern choreography by Efva Lilja Dancecompani E.L.D. Kenneth Kvarnstrom and Cristina Caprioli.---- Puppet and masktheatre with My Walther Figurteateret, Norge/Inad Theatre,Palestina. ---- Childrens play by the Swedish National Theatre. -SAMI film, Back to Saivu by Silja Somby. -Documentary film, the heart of the nightbird by Elisabeth Wennberg. -Dokumentary film about a school in Katzel, Tibet, by Lotta Ekelund and a film about Dalai Lamas visit in Stockholm. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Conchshell blowing musician and performance artist at: World Library, Stockholm Materia Scandiform showroom Art Tracking, Åmål Oscarsteatern, Stockholm Sustainable Cities Development, Conferens in Malmo 2007 Dalai Lamas speech in the Globe arena, Stockholm ---- the Water Prize ceremony at the City Hall, Stockholm ---- Tibetan New Year at the Ethnographic Museum in Stockholm ---- the seminar of Culture give health in Uppsala ---- schools and institutions for mental handicapped people in Uppsala ---- school concerts for children 6 - 12 years old ---- Seinen Gekijo Theatre in Tokyo and Picture Book Village in Kijo Town Japan ---- IBBY and Maritime Children books conference in Mariehamn ---- opening ceremony at Stockholm Culture Capital City - 98, the Globe Arena ---- the Berwaldhall, Festival of firesculpture, Churchconsert ---- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Pedagogue: 1980 - 2003 musician with a pedagogic program in schools of every level, in hospitals, for undeveloped children, for elder people. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Consert producer: 2001 - 04 Children and family conserts at Nalen, Stockholm. 1986 - 92 Arranging conserts with folk-, medival-, world- and jazzmusic within different music associations. 1974 producer of concerts/festivals with improvised-, folk- and contemporary music -------------------------------------------------------------------- Discs: Archimedes Bathtube: MNW P53, MNW 62-63, MNW78, MNW91 -ISKRA: Fantasies Mistlur MLR-36 ---- -Bitter funeral Beer Band/Don Cherry, ECM 1179 -- -Bitter Funeral Beer Band/ Don Cherry/K. Shridar, -Live in Frankfurt 1982, CE09 -Christer Bothen: Trancedance, MNWCD 3001 ---- -Per tjernberg: They Call Me, RUBCD04 ----- -Johan Petri: I fear this war, ALCD 012----- -Karl Brothers: Air Change, SLASK :Slacd 009 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Information about concerts, fanfares, performance, cermonies, seminars etc. please contact: Tommy Adolfsson Borgargatan 10, 4tr S-11734 Stockholm SWEDEN Mobil: +46705942386 E-mail: t.adolfsson@comhem.se www.myspace.com/tommyadolfsson I edited my profile with ..Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4......

  • Members

    Conch shell blower and trumpet player Tommy Adolfsson. Often working with the tibetian singer Chime Arkhang. Karl Brothers, the Duo of the none brother Tommy Adolfsson on trumpet, conch, overton flute, Tibetian Horn, Swedish wooden horn, Wooden cornett, hose-pipe, water trumpet, electric trumpet, and the fantastic musician Jörgen Adolfsson, reeds, electric synth guitarr, cotrabass clarinett, overtone flute.

  • Influences

    Louis Armstrong, Chet Baker, Maurice André, Albert Mangelsdorf, Lester Bowie, Miles Davis, Eje Thelin, Paul Rutherford, Han Bennik, Evan parker, The Art ensemble of Chicago, ISKRA, Samla Mannas Manna, Eric Dolphy, Henry Cow, Frank Zappa, Janis Joplin, Diamanda Galas, Jon Hassell, Steve Turre, Tomaz Stanko, The Last Poets, Raoul Bjorkenheim, Jan Garbarek, PH Wallin, Dollar Brand, Paul Loven, Kenny Wheeler, Fontana Bass, Wimme,

  • Sounds Like

    A pulse from a conch loop slowly propels beautiful trumpet-like solos from three different-sized conch shells. Suggestive and beautiful sounds with a poetic and warm stream. http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=2027709653

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  • Itzamna

    thanks for the add, your work with the conch is amazing, the music is great, thanks for that sounds with the sacred conch! its called atecocolli here in mexico, tlazohcamati huey atecocoliqui teoatecocoli tiquetzaltzotzon!!

    2 years ago
  • Björn Krause

    Tommy is my man!

    2 years ago
  • Corazon J. Foss

    Hey!i love you music


    2 years ago
  • Eliza Shaddad

    Amazing! I have never heard a conch being blown and it sounds beautiful, hope you like my tunes and thanks for dropping by:) Eliza x

    2 years ago
  • Corazon J. Foss



    How are you? My New friend.Thanks a lot for adding

    2 years ago

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