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 Increasingly focused on the Didjeridu I determined to make a recording where the true voice of my own didj playing got to shine. So I set up in San Francisco’s Poolside Studio with engineer Dave Nelson and began to explore the possibilities of multiple microphones on the didj.
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“Alien Dreamtime” [Astralwerks 1993] “Alien Dreamtime Video [City of Tribes 1993 / Rose X Media House DVD 2004]
 I made the acquaintance of psychedelic guru and Ethno Botanist Terence McKenna through Rose X, a couple of SF based Video artists Ken Adams and Britt Welin in 1992. They were planning a live psychedelic underground rave extravaganza with Terence and Spacetime Continuum [UK DJ/.Mixmeister Jonah Sharp] and brought me into the mix for the 2 back to back live events in the transmission Theater in SF’s South of Market club zone in Feb 2003.
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I first met composer/clarinetist Beth Custer at the first LIAFC appearance in San Francisco, at a party for the magazine, Mondo 2000. Later, as my stay in the Bay Area became a residence here, we began jamming together and soon invited multi ethnic drummer John Loose to come into the mix. I remember meeting John by chance on Valencia St in the dark one evening and popping the question. Sure, he said.
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Stephen Kent. Didjeridu Solos [Family Tree 1991]
 Having arrived in the SF Bay Area after a tour in the US and Canada with LIAFC I stayed on due to the unintended kindness of US Immigration officials – or perhaps they meant to give me a 3 year work permit…. – I determined to delve deep into my roots with a series of solo recordings made in natural caves and very un-natural military fortifications on the SF coast. I took my didjes into the woods south of San Francisco and, in the fog, with a DAT machine on my own and plugged into nature. Then later I went into Fort Funston military tunnels with John Loose and put the rest of it together. It was a meditation on minimalism and looking at nature as the mirror. TO date my only solo Didjeridu recording, though I am working on changing that right now!
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 This is a wholly different project from any of my other recorded works and is much more eclectic, featuring an almost chamber music sensibility – written largely for Cello, Violin and light percussion, with only 2 pieces of Didjeridu music included, one of them a duet with my cousin Ben Davies on cello – “Melones Part 2”. The recordings were made at Elephant Studios in London, once again with Simon Tassano producing and engineering. Except the final piece of the Choreography, which we tracked and mixed in a small studio in Barcelona under tight and stressful conditions days before “Ocho” premiered in Barcelona at a festival of Modern Dance.
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[These Records 1988 / City of Tribes 1993]
Drummer and percussionist extraordinaire Eddy Sayer and I began to play together socially and in public in 1984. In time out from other creative pursuits [I was in the circus then – Ra Ra Zoo] we’d go down to Camden Lock Market in north London and set up our instruments on a magic carpet, lent to us by the Afghan & Persian carpet salesman, Graham.
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