Bio
PASCKO is a musician from Sydney, Australia. The current line-up of his band is Pasko Schravemade (vocals, keys), Terrance Alexander Maxwell (drums), Nic Malouf (guitar), Yiss Mill (percussion) and Esther Laub (backing vocals).
PASCKO’s debut album, The Lonesome Traveller pulls from PASCKO & Ray Goodwin’s cache of original songs and it nods to R & B, Motown and Universal Soul. This might be attributable to PASCKO's history performing songs by American artists such as Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Lionel Richie, Ray Charles and Rufus Wainwright at bars, pubs, festivals and cruise ships.
The Lonesome Traveller CD was launched with Didgeridoo innovator Charlie McMahon (Midnight Oil) and cousin Andrew Schravemade at Bar Me in Kings Cross on March 19.
The songs on The Lonesome Traveller were written with collaborator Ray Goodwin ( Dragon band), who says:
“I first met PASCKO in Paddington. I was playing guitar for an indigenous folk song writer, Ray Minniecon. We got to chatting and both felt musical chemistry. Pascko’s songs awakened in me the energy to think melody, structure, contour, landscape, all of the innuendos possible to a certain songwriter.”
Away from the stage, PASCKO is a producer for Club Weld, an innovative studio for musicians on the autism spectrum. Club Weld has already released three acclaimed compilations, and recently embarked on a collaboration with video artists from western Sydney.
Ray Goodwin (Dragon) 1970's
Dragon (Ray on the far left)
Charlie McMahon with Peter Garrett (Midnight Oil)
The LONESOME TRAVELLER Album recently got a rave review from Tunedloud.com