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About Me

Like his hometown of Cape Town, Robin Auldâ€™s music exists somewhere between the 1st and the 3rd world. The only constant is that the song comes first. Born to Scottish parents in Zambia, his life has alternated between Southern Africa and Britain, a state of constant movement reflected in his musical search. In his own words: â€œ My personal journey as a songwriter is to make an equation that uses everything I've heard and loved. A musical world that links Bizet to Burt Bacharach to Philip Tabane to Lionel Bart to Steve Reich to The Soul Brothers to the Beatles to Joni Mitchell. It's a tall order, but it keeps me out of trouble." ........For a more detailed history, online sales, gigs etc, visit his site at www.robinauld .co.za

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Member Since: 1/24/2007
Band Website: robinauld.co.za
Band Members: Robin Auld
Influences: The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Steely Dan, Tom Waits, Gerry Lopez, Joni Mitchell, Skunk Baxter, Malombo, Elvis Costello, Neil Young, Steve Newman, Bukowski, Steve Reich, Burt Bacharach, Louis Mhlanga, XTC, Joan Armatrading, Robert Burns, Lionel Bart, Bizet, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Tony Cox, Soul Brothers, Ted Hughes, Bach, Bob Marley, Jaco Pastorius, James Philips, Tal Farlow, Jeff Beck, Madala Kunene, Taj Mahal, Prince, Ry Cooder, Rikki Lee Jones, Marc Ribot, Fela Kuti, Little Feat, Nick Drake, Vin Garbutt, Pink Floyd. George Benson.
Sounds Like: "Sunkissed and generous of melody"... Whisperin and hollerin, Ireland..... "A genuine and unaffected flowing together of cultural strands. And, unlike a lot of singer/songwriters, you can, hell you should, play this loud"...Unpeeled UK......."Meltdown, ambient and sublime"....Tasty, UK
Record Label: Free Lunch
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Southern Cross

Southern Cross started off as a kind of Celtic waltz&.Barry van Zyl came up with the idea of morphing it into an African 6 figure halfway through. It was originally recorded by Murray Anderson as a bo...
Posted by Robin Auld on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 03:25:00 PST

Over the mountain

The guitar figure for this tune I came up with after a trip to the Splashy Fen festival, near Durban. I had always loved Zulu guitar styles, firstly through hearing Johnny Clegg. When I dived into lea...
Posted by Robin Auld on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 03:24:00 PST

All the girls cried.

This song has prompted the most questions about one of my tunes. People are usually satisfied with the answer, which is that I wrote it after River Phoenix died. It wasn't exclusively about him..it wa...
Posted by Robin Auld on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 03:22:00 PST

Beautiful Things

I wrote "Beautiful Things" after 9/11. The song had been floating around for some time as a batch of tunes I had been writing with my good friend Gary Herselman. He had the themes of communication bre...
Posted by Robin Auld on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 03:20:00 PST