This song was written whilst I was looking in the eyes of my 2 week old daughter. 
It calls upon us to imagine how amazing our world could be if we all loved each other unconditionally the way a parent loves their child....
And it is possible, "... If we just open our hearts, open our minds, open ourselves to be free..."

Love Is Law

An unlikely single, from an even more unlikely artist, yet perhaps exactly the kind of tune the world needs right now, Kaye’s “Christmas Is a Wonderful Time” is an uplifting acoustic ballad of an outsider awakening to finally feeling included with something that everyone else seems connected with.

Kaye ruminates, “Aside from the fact that I grew up in a Jewish immigrant family, so we only celebrated Chanukah, I’d had an awful experience when I was 8 years old at my first ever Christmas and kinda loathed it for most of my life.”

Kaye said he always felt that Xmas was for others and he didn’t feel included.

Tongue in cheek, he continues, “So for years I’d deride it as a period of anxiety that most of us were forced into by hegemonic consumerism, with a white-bearded, red-coated mascot tripping so hard he thinks he’s flying on reindeers & squeezing into billions of chimneys. hehe. But one year a Christmas miracle happened!” He exclaimed with a hint of cheekiness in his voice.

“You see, I was at my partner’s family’s house experiencing a wonderful family Christmas surrounded by generations of Indians and their multicultural partners.”

The multi-instrumental virtuoso then picked up his twelve-string guitar and penned the song in a matter of minutes.

“I was in such a heightened state by the good vibes that the tune just flowed out almost in an instant. That’s when I realised that Christmas no longer belonged to one religion or culture, but was an opportunity for us all to belong.”

Opening with a haunting middle-eastern melody into a celtic-like scale, which is a tilting of the hat towards the Abrahamic & Pagan cultural roots of this celebration, plucked from the timber and steel of a 12 string acoustic guitar, until a trip hop beat-laden groove makes the foundation for the catchy vocal chant.

It’s sonically reminiscent of the mystical explorations of Robert Plant and Jimmy Page merged with the feel-good melodic sensibilities of Coldplay.

This is that good-vibed tune that you’ll gladly put on repeat this festive season.

CHRISTMAS IS A WONDERFUL TIME

This is the hilarious tale of Nathan's first time in the USA with his gorgeous ex-girlfriend & all the attention she always got... 

All set to a rock bluesy-rock groove laid down live in the studio as a one-man-band with Lapsteel slide guitar, electronic foot drums, Didgeridoo & vocals...

This is a MUST listen. Worth every second!

Lucky Man Story

A powerful improvised live-in-the-studio instrumental journey.
This is a great example of Nathan's live one-man-band style improvisations.
Slide-Didge (Trombone-like didjeridoo), 12 string guitar, Electronic foot drums.

Twelve String Didge in Csus2

Wings

This song was written in reaction to how the Australian government was treating people who were (&amp; are) seeking asylum from oppressive regimes. It particularly focusses on children being locked in detention centres &amp; how the system preys on our apathy to continue barbaric practices.
Please sign this petition to release children from detention centres in Autsralia. http://www.getup.org.au/campaigns/fair-go/kids-dont-belong-behind-bars
Thanks &amp; 

The instrumentation in this track a looped beatbox, acoustic guitar & vocals. Kazz Nakahara is on Double Bass.

Ennjoy...
blessings to you...

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Human Life

Finally. A national anthem we can all be proud of! 
For decades, we Australians have had a national anthem that doesn't appropriately represent all Australians. Nor does it acknowledge our First Nation people, all whilst our government treats asylum seekers, Original people and our land and water with disdainful human rights and ecological abuses, despite the meaning of the national anthem's words. And, let's face it, it just sounds archaic. 

This song elucidates upon the first line of key stanzas in the old national anthem and sapiently expands upon them with astute veracious observations. 

Many call the 26th January "Australia Day" not realising that it creates such anguish and anger because that was the day this continent was invaded. So, many others call it "Invasion Day" because that's what actually happened, whether you like it or not. 
I'm not against the concept of having an Australia Day, but it should be on another date out of respect for those who'd suffered for over 2 centuries. 
So to create a respectful healing, I propose we should probably rename the 26th January, "Reconciliation Day," whilst we find another appropriate date to celebrate being Australian. 

On 26th January in 1988, Australia's bicentennial, I was at this momentous Aboriginal Land Rights protest with one of my best friends at the time who was a proud Murri fulla.
I was 14 years old & already understood the significance this day held for our First Nation people. This was in Qld during the oppressive Joh Bjelke-Petersen era, still before the concept of respect to our First Nation people was made more acceptable.
My mum was married to a wonderful Murri man, Yabu Bilyana, & at the time, my little half-brother Gandhu was an already cheeky 1 year old.
A few years later, at age 17, I had my first Yidaki (Didgeridoo) given to me by a full-blood Pitjanjitjarra tribesman, which started me on my journey with this profoundly spiritual ancient instrument.
I play the yidaki with full respect to the First Nation people of this beautiful land and also in this song that I penned as a replacement for Australia's archaic national anthem.
It's time for a change... 
Change of flag. 
Change of national anthem. 
Change of date to celebrate Australia Day.
With respect, have a listen & do share...

(The name of the Aboriginal elder heard speaking deep wisdom has passed away and therefor his identity must be respected, yet his profound message lives on)
lyrics
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Advance Australia Truly Fair 
Lyrics 

Australians all let us rejoice for we are young and free, 
Free to be compassionate for those who're less lucky, for those with less than we, 
To advance Australia truly free. 

Our land abounds in nature's gifts of beauty rich and rare, 
We cannot let any government destroy what's ours not there's, 
Destroy what's ours not theres, 
To advance Australia truly fair. 

Beneath our radiant southern cross we'll toil with hearts and hands, 
Until the rich oligarchy see and truly understand, 
that this is not their land, 
united here we stand, 
To advance Australia fair and grand. 

For those who've come across the seas we've boundless plains to share, 
To respect First Nation Original people and thank them for their care, yes thank them for their care, 
To advance Australia truly fair, 
Truly fair 
Truly fair...
credits
released January 25, 2016 
Written, arranged, performed, engineered and produced by Nathan Kaye 

Instruments all played by Nathan Kaye: Yidaki (Didgeridoo), Acoustic Guitar, Dan Moi (Vietnamese Jaw Harp), Lead and Backing Vocals

Advance Australia Truly Fair

Some of the lyrics of this song were inspired by the sapiential words of 12th Century Sufi mystic poet, Jelluadin Rumi... 

This tuned was penned to help lift people out of the silent black dog affliction and as a celebration of life! 

It's folky, but then wait for the drums to kick in. It'll surprise you... 

This is from the Waves of Life album.

30% of sales of this song go to Suicide Prevention Australia.

Lead & backing vocals, acoustic 12 string guitars, 5 string bass, cello & violin sampler, Native American medicine drum, Djembe - Nathan Kaye 
Drumset & percussion - Winston 'Horseman' Williams 

Written, performed, recorded, produced and mixed by Nathan Kaye at Dreamseeds Sound Design Studio
Stem mix & master by Grammy winning, Michael Stavrou.

© & Ⓟ Nathan Kaye 2016

Waves Of Life

Be Silent & Listen to the Call

Be Silent & Listen To The Call

LUCKY MAN is out now!!
Buy cd: http://lnk.ms/DC7PC
iTunes: http://lnk.ms/BrBrZ

You’ll love it & it’s printed on recycled board using vegie inks!

Kaye’s latest album produced in LA, USA and Sydney, his fourth release “Lucky Man”, is a record that is rich with heel-stompin' live blues 'n roots, organic funk-rock and infectious sing-a-long pop. It is an amalgamation of music that is as raw, raunchy and unrelenting as it is strikingly haunting and deeply touching.

With songs penned from pivotal points in his life spanning years of trials & tribulations, Nathan shares some of his most exuberant moments with grit, power and passion as well as some of his darkest hours with tenderness, insight and brutal honesty. Kaye’s album is a dirty, stompin' exploration of live energy, humour as well as emotional exorcism.

 Track Listing:
1.	Rise
2.	Thought You Were Real
3.	Tear In Your Hand
4.	Come On You Are Beautiful
5.	Lover Lover
6.	Couldn’t Put You Down
7.	Twelve String Didge Concerto in Csus4
8.	Lucky Man Story
9.	The Tease
10.	Wings
11.	Put That Thing Down
12.	I Once Met a Wise Woman
13.	I Bumped it
14.	Lucky Man (part 2)
15.	Mushroom Chai
16.	Didgeboxing Gratitude

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Come On, You Are Beautiful

I Once Met A Wise Woman

From Nathan Kaye's Burning The Candle EP.
This is blistering Lapsteel Slide Guitar Rock with Kaye's trademark beatboxing & Didgeridoo...

Featuring Pauly B (Paul Bromley) from 'The Beautiful Girls' (& also 'George') on Bass...

Burning the Candle EP

Burning The Candle

Limited edition exclusive Buy EP here

From Kaye's Burning The Candle EP.
Nobody's Slave, Nobody's Master is a slow grinding Lapsteel Slide Guitar driven declaration of freedom...

"... When I die & my body's in the Earth,
My soul returned to the place of it's birth,
The inscription on my tomb you will see,
That I feared no man and no man feared me..."

Featuring Pauly B (Paul Bromley) from The Beautiful Girls (& also George) on Bass...

Nobody's Slave, Nobody's Master

You may have come across Nathan Kaye on tour with the likes of Pete Murray, Paul Kelly, Birds of Tokyo, Grammy winner Jason Mraz or as an actor in films like Muriel’s Wedding or One Less God. The Byron Bay- based multi-instrumental virtuoso Nathan Kaye has unveiled the first glimpse of his forthcoming album Movement of Change with the release of his brand-new single with the intriguing title, ‘Watcher Watching the Watcher’.

In his live shows, Kaye frequently unmasks his film & TV acting background with a comedic, yet often poignant, storytelling as he frequently portrays the strange characters we meet in life. However, in ‘Watcher Watching the Watcher’, the attention is placed on our inner pilgrimage as he dives into the tumultuous depths of the human mind to reach a lucid awareness.

“I first started exploring the philosophical notion of being ‘the watcher’ of my own life when I was 17 years old during a performance of a play where I lost all sense of myself and was just observing the character’s lines and behaviours falling out of my mouth and body. It seemed like the character I was supposed to be acting as was it’s own real being that took over me and I was just an observer inside on the ride. It really shook me up at the time, because it made me question the realness of my own identity or ego, which led me on a lifelong quest to find out who it is that thinks these thoughts I am having. Who is the watcher that is watching the watcher that is watching me.”

 Opening with the haunting weissenborn lapsteel slide guitar wailing on it’s own, before the thunderous 90’s trip-hop-like beat thumps through, threading between lingering, solemn notes and culminating in an adroit display of impressive slide guitar skills. All the while, Kaye’s smooth, rasp voice charactered from the experience of a life well lived, delivers astute philosophical truths, like the kindly advice from a wise mystic summoning you to see your real self for the first time.

The song has been mastered at London’s infamous Abbey Road Studios by the engineer that cut Radiohead’s Kid A record to vinyl.

“It’s always been a dream of mine to have a song be mastered where the greats like the Beatles, Pink Floyd & Radiohead have created their masterpieces, so when the opportunity arose I couldn’t resist.”

Recorded in an off-grid, eco-friendly, solar powered studio nestled in the rainforests of the Byron hinterland, where many upcoming artists are recording their new releases, ‘Watcher Watching the Watcher’ embodies elements of the tranquil nature of its surrounds, yet underpinned with an unshakeable ominousness.

It feels as if the pretentiousness of Byron’s New Age movement has finally dropped it’s facade & been replaced by a non-fluffy, mature spokesman.

Tonally the song is not dissimilar to the trip-hop offerings of the 90’s, such as Massive Attack, blended with the fearless vulnerability of artists like Ben Harper and the complex modal writing of Radiohead, the track is the first look at Kaye’s new sonic path which sees him embracing a relentless cinematic-type soundscape with acoustic prowess, as he brings light to the dark places within.

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LYRICS

It's up to me to make me happy,
It's up to me to make me smile,
But when my thoughts stay negative,
I perceive my habitat hostile.

It's up to me to make me jealous,
It's up to me to make me see,
But when my thoughts stay positive,
There is nothing that I can't achieve.

I am the watcher watching the watcher watching me,
I am the hearer hearing the hearer hearing me.

It's up to me when I feel peaceful,
It's up to me when I feel sad,
When I abrogate the negative,
Well, my disposition becomes glad.

I am the watcher watching the watcher watching me,
I am the healer healing the healer healing me.

I am the watcher watching the watcher watching me,
Healer healing,
Watcher watching,
I am the watcher,
I am the watcher watching, watching me.

© Nathan Kaye 2020

Watcher Watching the Watcher

[For an example of Nathan's LIVE SHOW, SCROLL DOWN TO 'Lucky Man Story'] 

(THE SONG ORDER OF THIS SOUNDCLOUD PAGE IS RANDOM)
An influential part of the Australian blues and roots scene, Nathan Kaye, the globe-trotting one-man-band who thumps out his songs on slide guitar, slide-didge & electronic footdrums at festivals, bars and has even been known to smash out 5 hour sets in outback hotel rooms on mushrooms.
Similar to a lot of Blues and roots musicians, he’s a bit of a hippie activist, with many of his songs dealing with subjects like setting aside time from the hustle ‘n’ bustle of modern life to children being locked in detention centers. But he’s also quite the larrikin and loves to spin funny yarns about his adventures on the road, like his Lucky Man Story about the hilarious reactions he got from blokes in the USA to his (ex)girlfriend as they walked down the street.
Unlike other one-man-bands, Kaye pulls out some extremely left-field stuff that defies genre pigeon-holing, but more than pulls it off. Such as his hilarious beatbox routine where he improvises a bunch of audience-chosen requests of cheesy songs and mixes them up like a DJ.
Nathan has maintained a fiercely independent DIY approach to his original music and has managed to carve out a solid career, even if it sometimes meant going from playing to thousands at festivals with Triple J airplay to small numbers at organic cafes. As long as he’s bringing people together playing live music and earning a living, he’s a happy man.
Kaye's music will draw you in and make you think, make you laugh and make you move.
NK is a one-man band and a talent packed show that has to be seen to be believed. Trust us, you’ll be better for it.
It’s the best sweaty, dirty, sexy, good-vibed foot-stomp you'll get from one man.
 
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
• Performed with Pete Murray (44 Australian sold out dates!)
• Performed with Jason Mraz at The Stronghold, Venice Beach, LA
• Performed at The Viper Room, Sunset Strip, LA, 
• Supported Paul Dempsey (Something For Kate), Hotel Cafe, Hollywood, LA, 
• Performed in the official line-up at 
• Glastonbury Festival, England, UK  
• Splendour In The Grass Festival, NSW 
• Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Spiegel Tent, Scotland 
• Fairbridge Festival, WA 
• Woodford Folk Festival, QLD 
• Peat’s Ridge Festival, NSW 
• Super-Heineken Tour, China 
• The Burning Man Festival, USA 
• Earth Day Festival, Bali, Indonesia 
• Supported Paul Kelly on tour 
• Recorded guitar, vocals and programmed beats on Andy Fraser's solo album (70’s band, Free)
• Performed onstage with John Butler at the Fatherhood Festival
• Toured in venues in UK, Ireland, USA, China, Hong Kong, Bali & Australia  
• Supported The Corrs, Hong Kong 
• Supported other artists including Diesel, Little Birdy, Ash Grunwald, iOta

naTHAN Kaye

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