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Glen Heald is an Australian guitarist and multi instrumental singer/songwriter who plays a mix of contemporary rock, fusion, blues, blues rock, folk and acoustic ballads. He is a fully independent Aboriginal recording artist who has written, recorded and produced eight solo albums. 
Glen Heald is a Tasmanian Aboriginal who was born in 1967 and began playing guitar at 13 years of age. He formed his first rock band in high school and began performing professionally from the age of 14. He gained entry on an audition to the University of Tasmania and studied arranging and Jazz improvisation with Jim Lade (US Berklee college of music). After completing an associate degree in music he led the first of many original bands playing Guitar, Flute, Banjo and Harmonica. He recorded his first album in Launceston in 1990 with the "Glen Heald Blues Band". 
In 1992 he established and wrote the curriculum for the first fully contemporary music course in Darwin Australia which he coordinated for the next eight years. Teaching live performance, improvisation, musicianship, multitrack recording and live sound. During the 1990s Glen started playing the Hans Reichel guitar (Reichel guitars feature multiple fretboards, unique positioning of pick-ups and 3rd bridges the resulting sounds create unusual harmonics from overtones). Glen was broadcast nationally on JJJ radio performing on the reichel guitar in 1998. In the late 1990s Heald started performing and recording on the Chapman Stick (The Stick usually has twelve individually tuned strings and is designed as a fully polyphonic chordal instrument that can cover several musical parts simultaneously). 
In 2001 he began performing with the Australian Aboriginal singer songwriter Shellie Morris, recording, co-writing, arranging and producing her debut and second CD Waiting Road nominated for Album of the Year at the 2007 Deadly Awards.

Tracks Listing:
1. Waiting For The Devil - 6:01
2. Vietnam - 5:23
3. Texas Peyote - 8:20
4. Bringing Me Down - 3:37
5. Universal Law - 6:56
6. Decolonisation - 5:50
7. No Matter What I Do - 5:28
8. Back From Mars  - 6:08
9. Our Mountain - 5:00
10.Lap Steel in Low B -  5:44