Hi, I'm Andy Busuttil, and welcome to the
section of the site dedicated to my playing and teaching....
• I play the darabuka (tabla), various wind instruments as well
as sing.
• I specialise in The Ancient Music of Malta, Middle Eastern and Balkan music.
• I get a real kick out of running workshops.
I've run many workshops for folk festivals and for community groups around
the country. The people who attend always have a great time and learn
a lot about percussion and playing music.
• In Hazelbrook, in the Mid Mountains, I run a regular series of
drum and percussion classes.
No matter what your level or experience you're sure to have a great time
and add to your skills.
• I perform, play sessions and accompany Middle Eastern and Balkan
dancers. Some of the dancers I have played
for include (amongst others): Tamara Williams, Devi Mamak and Ghawazi
Caravan,Terezka, Belyssa, Joy Le Cerf, Sarah Hamilton, Helen Way, and
Maria Masselos.
• Of course you can catch me regularly performing with Tutfarangi
and Kurdish Earth.
"Musicians
like Andy Busuttil are the heart and soul of music. Like all similarly
besotted passionate souls , he plays, not for monetary gain or from a
desire to feed his ego, but because he loves his music, he believes music
is a common language that can bind us all closer together as human beings,
and because he just plain bloody well enjoys it.! And he tries to communicate
this passion and this sense of sharing and communication with his audiences
in his performances. Andy may well be singing in Turkish, Kurdish, or
whatever, but really he is singing in the common language of humanity
- compassion, honesty, joy. What more can you want from music?"........
Eric Bogle
Thanks for the wonderfully kind words Eric!
Click here if
you'd like to contact me about performance
and workshop possibilities.
• My current passion and greatest delight is in performing with Skorba, the band that is becoming renowned for 'The Ancient Music of Malta'. Skorba has been engaged to perform in Israel and Malta later this year and is delighted to be doing so! Check out Skorba's music here for some great samples to listen to.
- Bands I have played with include: Xenos, Nakisa, Compania Azziz, Shekel and Hide, Drum Arabic, Hide and
Sheik, Rivero, and Santouri and I have played guest spots with bands like
the wonderful HaBiBis, Mara!, Amada, Blindmans' Holiday, Brassov, Shindig,
The wonderful 'Gypsy Hot Club', Leyla Shakir and The Balkan Big Band as
well as my fun R 'n R band 'The Receding Headliners' made up of oldies
but goodies like myself. Have played a lot with Xenos as well.
• I've been really lucky to have played with some brilliant musicians and other artists including Linsey Pollak, Eric Bogle and his band, Sivan Perwer, Christos Baltzidis, Ted Egan, Paul Koerbin, Veli Toprak, Jan Wositsky, John Derum, Shortis and Simpson, Margaret Roadnight, Kim Sanders, Margaret Walters, Risto Todoroski, Ranjith Madurapperuma, Tunji Beier, Blair Greenberg, Linda Marr and Graeme Johnson. And at this last Woodford Folk Festival the stunning Rachel Hore and Lenny Marks, and Middle Eastern (Israeli) group 'Mayaan'.
• I'm also an audio engineer and record bands and individuals. -
Top The CD's I've played on include all of the following. To buy any of the ones in brown, have a look at my CD's page.
• Drum Arabic 'Hanina'
• Shekel and Hide 'Shadows'
• Andy Busuttil 'Pulse of the Pyramids Vol.1' and
• 'Pulse of the Pyramids Vol. 2'
• Compania Azziz 'Second Generation'
• Kurdish Earth 'Kurdish Earth' (self titled)
• World Without Borders (compilation World Music CD)
• Blindman's Holiday 'Airport Lounge'
• Eta Carinae 'A Star in Crisis'
• Rivero Ensemble 'Rivero'
• Julianne Spicer 'Yet to be Named'
• Peter Kennard 'Re-Light the Cauldron'
• Roger Corbett-Julie and Barry Henninger-Greg Sieler collaboration 'Girlz Klub'
• Newpin Choir 'Pinning it Together'
• Oonagh Sherard: Kappadocia
• Shindig: 'Out Standing'
• Gypsy Hot Club 'Dragonfly Cafe'.
• Steve Bevis: As yet un-named.
• Silvia Entcheva: 'If I Were a Bird'
• Luciano Mesiti: 'It's About Time'