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Black Arm Band Premiers ‘Dirtsong’ in the US
Shellie Morris celebrated her birthday in style this year. Along with other members of the Black Arm Band, Shellie was in Hanover, New Hampshire, at Dartmouth College, to present the US premier of their third major production, dirtsong. Immediately after … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Arm Band, Crossing Cultures, Dartmouth College, Hood Museum of Art
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Murundak Alive!
I wasn’t prepared at all for the emotional impact of Murandak: songs of freedom, the concert film and documentary tagged as “a journey to the heart of Aboriginal protest music with the Black Arm Band.” I’d downloaded the album from … Continue reading
The Arts Issue
The October issue of The Monthly has hit the stands and the net, with Deborah Mailman on the cover, announcing “The Arts Issue.” And there’s some good stuff here for fans of Indigenous performing arts, and desert music in particular. (I … Continue reading
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Rip Rock: It’s Not About Hip-Hop
Earlier this week I was thinking about breaking the string of book reviews I’ve posted lately with something different when CAAMA came to the rescue by posting an old music video by my favorite post-apocalyptic, no-nonsense, mean-as-nails and sweetly lyrical … Continue reading
Passion Is No Ordinary Word
I’m a little preoccupied this weekend with a wonderful and charming houseguest, and so I’ll beg off an essay and offer a couple of video clips instead. The first came from the ABC a few weeks ago, and consists largely … Continue reading
Gurrumul in the UK
For my readers in the UK: GURRUMUL + SPECIAL GUESTS Thu 6 Oct 2011, 7.30pm Barbican Hall http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=12522 Following the success of his double platinum debut album in 2009, Australian Aboriginal sensation Gurrumul presents songs from his new release, Rrakala. Born blind, … Continue reading
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Iwantja Redux
A new addition to YouTube features Iwantja at the Dreaming Festival in 2010 performing “Move Ya Body.” This one gives a good feel for what the new album Palya sounds like in some of its flasher moments. They hadn’t worked … Continue reading
Palya. Better. Best.
Whatever I expected from the premiere album by the Iwantja Band, it didn’t involve a string quartet. Palya is a seriously great album. I’d be tempted to say that it is Aboriginal rock ‘n’ roll’s Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club … Continue reading
Climbing the Charts
It’s been a big couple of weeks for new music releases. First to find its way to me was the new single from B2M, the smooth-singing quintet out of the Tiwi Islands (the name is short for “Bathurst to Melville”). … Continue reading
Little Bit of Country, Little Bit of Rock ‘n’ Roll
Despite the headline to this post that I stole from Fitzroy Xpress, I’m really not much of a country music fan. This puts large chunks of contemporary Indigenous music if not out of reach, at least on the far end … Continue reading
