The Message Stick

The album, "The Message Stick" incorporates the talents of 25 incredibly gifted musicians and songwriters from across the globe that are true artists in their chosen disciplines!

David Pendragon, an independent music producer/sound engineer living in Canberra created this album with the collaboration of musicians playing together over the Internet in their own home studios.

Musicians from as far away as Europe, U.S.A, Canada, U.K, India, Singapore, and various other Australian states showcase their incredible talents on this album. POP admin Chris Bishop is a member of TWE and is also contributing video productions to the project.

'Tribe World Ensemble' originaly evolved out of the Canberra Australia band called ‘Tribe’ who are well known for their album ‘The Gathering’ [New World Music] and the single ‘The Bushfire Song’

 After the success of 'The Gathering', the idea of a follow up high-quality, well-recorded album of World music, played on real instruments rather than keyboard sounds, seemed a natural progression.

Early in 2006 Pendragon began to explore the Internet as a way to promote Tribe and 'The Gathering'.

Through his investigations Pendragon became inspired with the idea to use the Internet to produce, write and coordinate an entire album of quality music, with musicians who had never met and in many cases, had never even conversed with each other.

This [at that time] had never been done before. David realized that this for him was the true meaning of World Music.

Without the Internet as a tool it would never have been possible for them to work together due to the vast distances involved.

  Each of the musicians involved are artists well known in their own communities for their musical expertise on instruments such as: violin, cello, sitar, guitar, lap-slide guitar, drums and percussion, Native American flute and many others.

Pendragon enlisted all the musicians needed to create this album through Internet forums and independent music sites. He recorded 'back track' parts in his studio and made them available via the Internet to enable the contributing musicians to record their parts and then return them to the Canberra studio. David then mixed these parts into the main mix of the final final songs. 

Some song writing and creative development took place during late-night intercontinental or interstate 'voice-over-internet' conversations; humming a tune in Canberra to a sitar riff, or choosing a drum sound over the Skype phone, with the accompanying player somewhere on the other side of the world!

A documentary covering this incredible musical journey is currently being made.

Combine all this with the talents of local and interstate musicians and vocalists, and you have a world-class album, pieced together in a very unusual way by the planets very first truly ‘World Music’ band. This is fast becoming the way musicians and artists will work together in the future.

Following is the bands collective statement about “THE MESSAGE STICK”:

“Message Sticks were used by the Australian Aboriginal people and other tribal cultures to send messages from one place or tribe to another. The messenger was a protected person and allowed free passage across traditional boundaries. We can learn many things from the Native Indigenous People from all areas of our World.

A common thread that runs throughout all cultures is a caring and unconditional love for the land that clothes and feeds us.

In this album we are sending out our own heartfelt message to our fellow inhabitants of this incredible place we all call home, Planet Earth. Each song expresses a feeling about some aspect of human co-existence and relationship, with ourselves, with our Planet and with each other. We ask you to join with us.”

                “May you enjoy the journey as it unfolds, may we meet you in the music”

This link will take you to the official band site with side links to  New World Music site around the world where you can obtain the album: http://tribesongs.com/links.html

David Pendragon’s work on this album has already won him the 2006 International Online Music Award (I.O.M.A) for “Best Online Music Producer”.

Tribe World Ensemble can be contacted for interviews on 02 62874541 or email ztribez@primusonline.com.au or contact Brumby Books and Music.

This site is the home of a group of musicians who as a collective call themselves 'Tribeworld Ensemble'

You will find here a number of albums created by various different incarnations of these bands, 'David Pendragon and Friends' [Folk/Rock],  'Divine Nature' [Sacred Chants]  the latest creation, the internet collaboration band 'Tribe Pendragon' [Beautiful Music] and the haunting sounds of World Music from Pendragon Hall

If you listen to our music and like any of it we NEED your help. To continue creating this high quality music and allowing it to be played here FREE we need funding. Would you please help by making a small donation  by clicking on the the "our merchandise" button at the right side of this page .There is a box called 'A donation to the Cause' and that will help us greatly to be able to continue. If you could please purchase a copy of one of the albums, also in the shop. If you are uncertain about paying for things over the internet contact me [David Pendragon] on ztribez@primusonline.com.au  We thank you for your help. Without your support, independent producers cannot survive.  I eat a lot of  rice

                                   TO LISTEN NOW CLICK HERE

David suggests, for your ideal listening pleasure, that you play back the music flat, without bass boost or "loudness" and E.Q effects.

For those of you who would like to hear some of the bands work, we have put up  'Tribe's' ' The Gathering' and 'The Message Stick for your enjoyment along with a number of other 'works in progress'. Click on these links [below] and then hit  "play album" next to 'The Message Stick' to stream the audio or alternatively use the small orange player on the right hand side of the page. 

Rather than the normal commercial practice of only letting you hear short 'snippits' of each song we have decided to allow you to hear the entire songs and in some cases albums. Please help us in return by not making illegal downloads and also considering our request that you purchase them or donate if you can. This makes YOU a "Patron of the Arts".

You will also find our current 'Song of the Week' here:

 Message Stick  ALBUM PLAY [TRIBE PENDRAGON 2008]

 The Gathering ALBUM PLAY  [TRIBE PENDRAGON 2002]

We will have the other albums uploaded soon, for now you can hear parts of each one at the same link as above

HERE YOU WILL FIND A HOST OF LINKS THAT SOMETIMES TAKE YOU AWAY FROM THE HOME SITE, WE ARE STILL CONSTRUCTING SOME OF THE "LINK BACKS" SO FOR NOW YOU WILL NEED TO RELY ON YOUR "BACK" BUTTON TO RETURN TO THE "HOME" PAGE.  

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO VISIT DAVID-PENDRAGON IN HIS "CAVE" CLICK ON THIS LINK

PENDRAGONS CAVE

To listen to songs and get some free downloads click on Audio

To order physical copies of Tribeworld Ensemble or Tribe Pendragon albums also click on Store

If you would like to listen to some of the Pure Acoustics Radio programs click on RADIO and enjoy some great music from around the world of acoustics.You will also meet David here as he presents some of the music that has affected and moved him.