Previous item Next item
Item details
Item ID
MW6-001
(Collection Details)
Title Pacific Gold Studios and Rabaul Music by Greg Seeto, Rabaul
Description Greg Seeto of Pacific Gold Studios (PGS) describes the PNG music developments and productions through studio recordings and releases of albums by PNG artists, musicians, sound engineer.
PGS was a popular country-wide music recording studio based in Rabaul with 24-track equipment.
Through studio projects like "Brukim Bus" and "Rock and Roll"albums were released in volumes and had been successful through cassette sales in PNG. The Brukim Bus (in Tok Pisin) project means short cut in producing PNG music and Rock and Roll are more learning from western music and using the techniques in the types of music production for PNG language songs in local dialects and Tok Pisin.
The projects developed young studio musicians and sound engineers to better their songwriting skills and knowledge of western music to apply to local dialect and tok pisin songs with lyrics. The studio then work with the artists and musicians who record their albums and releases with the PGS label.
The experience has been that the local PNG language dialect folk songs mainly Tolai or Kuanua and some from around the country are more free flowing, better lyrics and melodious than the Tok Pisin ones.
Cassette album covers released used more artistic visuals for identity then just photos of band members.
The most popular PNG music in terms of sales and had numerous hit songs were Painim Wok band of Rabaul with Tolai musicians. The DJ Band of Port Moresby also did their albums in Rabaul with some success with their released songs.
(Steven Gagau, June 2019)
Origination date 1989-01-01
Origination date free form
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/MW6/001
URL
Collector
Michael Webb
Find similar
Countries
Papua New Guinea - PG
To view related information on a country, click its name
Language as given
Subject language(s)
English - eng
To view related information on a language, click its name
Content language(s)
English - eng
To view related information on a language, click its name
Dialect
Region / village Rabaul, East New Britain Province
Originating university University of Sydney
Operator Nick Fowler-Gilmore
Data Categories historical reconstruction
Data Types Sound
Discourse type narrative
Roles Steven Gagau : data_inputter
Michael Webb : interviewer
Greg Seeto : speaker
DOI 10.26278/8YYA-HS33
Cite as Michael Webb (collector), Steven Gagau (data_inputter), Michael Webb (interviewer), Greg Seeto (speaker), 1989. Pacific Gold Studios and Rabaul Music by Greg Seeto, Rabaul. MPEG/VND.WAV. MW6-001 at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/8YYA-HS33
Content Files (2)
Filename Type File size Duration File access
MW6-001-A.mp3 audio/mpeg 18.3 MB 00:20:03.980
MW6-001-A.wav audio/vnd.wav 662 MB 00:20:03.960
2 files -- 680 MB -- --

Show 10 Show 50 Show all 2

Collection Information
Collection ID MW6
Collection title Music in Rabaul, Gazelle Peninsula, ENBP and New Guinea Islands Region (ca. 1950s - 1990s)
Description Recordings of a wide range of music in Rabaul 1950s-1990s covering areas of the Gazelle Peninsula of East New Britain Province and the New Guinea Islands Region. This collection was the PhD research work by Dr Michael Webb focused on music of Melanesia in the Pacific. This collection was located as a result of PARADISEC's 'Lost and Found' project and digitisation was funded by the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language.

Note: This video recording on Item MW6-012 labelled Queens Birthday Singsing, Rabaul in 1993 was unable to be digitised due to poor quality of tape so deleted from collection.
(Steven Gagau)
Countries
Australia - AU
New Caledonia - NC
Papua New Guinea - PG
To view related information on a country, click its name
Languages
English - eng
French - fra
Hakö - hao
Halia - hla
Kuanua - ksd
Mekeo - mek
Motu - meu
Ramoaaina - rai
Saliba - sbe
Sursurunga - sgz
Siar-Lak - sjr
Solos - sol
Teop - tio
Tok Pisin - tpi
Taulil - tuh
Undetermined language - und
Warwar Feni - hrw
To view related information on a language, click its name
Access Information
Edit access Jodie Kell
Steven Gagau
Michael Webb
View/Download access
Data access conditions Open (subject to agreeing to PDSC access conditions)
Data access narrative
Comments

Must be logged in to comment

No comments found