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WM2-005a
Title Airileke - Weapon of Choice
Description Airileke "Airi" David Ingram, is a Papua New Guinean-Australian musician and producer. Ingram was born in Australia, his family comes from a village, Gabagaba, Central Province, Papua New Guinea and he is of Melanesian descent.He grew up in both PNG and Darwin, Northern Territory.

About Airileke. Source: Wantok Musik.

"Airileke (Irie-Leke) is an artist and producer with a reputation for leading innovative music projects such as DRUM DRUM, Guerilla Step and the Wantok Musik Foundation".

"His unique sound melds futuristic ideas and traditional beats that hark back to ancient Melanesian culture. Sample based hip-hop production, fierce log drumming, Papuan chants, atmospheric sound-scapes and samples of West Papua’s Free Papua Movement (OPM) delve into one of the region’s darkest stories—the oppression and illegal occupation of West Papua. This is the new sound of urban Melanesia".

(a) Full Freedom
Song and film clip off the 2012 Wantok release album Weapon of Choice by Gaba Gaba/ Australian artists Airileke.

https://www.wantokmusik.org/airileke

Film clip shot by Tim Cole in Port Moresby settlements.

(b) Weapon of Choice

His album Weapon of Choice (October 2012) was nominated at the ARIA Music Awards of 2013 for Best World Music Album.

The release of his debut album ‘Weapon of Choice’ in November 2012 is the culmination of his life-long immersion in the sounds of Melanesia, creating a new hybrid music community between Australia and the Pacific".

Source: Wantok Musik

(David Bridie & Steven Gagau, April 2024)
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Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/WM2/005a
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Originating university University of Sydney
Operator Jodie Kell
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DOI 10.26278/hz66-6k10
Cite as David Bridie (collector). Airileke - Weapon of Choice. MPEG/VND.WAV/JPEG/TIFF/X-MATROSKA/MP4. WM2-005a at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/hz66-6k10
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Collection ID WM2
Collection title Wantok Musik Foundation (WMF) - Music Label Recordings of Oceania Region.
Description The Wantok Musik Foundation is an Australian-based not-for-profit Music Label that records, releases and promotes culturally infused music from Indigenous Australia, Melanesia and Oceania. The brand “Wantok Musik” is a Melanesian term that reflects talking with a common language “one talk” although in the diverse cultures of the region that may have different sounds, different beats, different instruments, the music we all share is common and singing about the same things such as our history, our lore, our education, our hurts, our joys, our injustices, our struggles, our lives, our communities and our stories. This Collection preserves rich musical talents and artists of the Oceania region where the Wantok Musik Label through album recordings and collaborative projects has fostered cross-cultural initiatives and exchange. Through music and language within the diverse cultures of the region, we hear, share and learn about entertainers, performers and artistic and creative expressions where over the years, the Wantok Musik label has recorded, released and promoted of music from First Nation Australia, Melanesia and Oceania. Wantok Musik promotes local and international profile of First Nation and world music groups based in the region by supporting and providing greater economic opportunity for artists, long-term career sustainability at the same time by managing the various activities addresses social issues with creative and culturally focused approaches.
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