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WM2-030b
Title Soundtrack - The Straits
Description RELEASED JAN 27, 2012..FEATURES TELEK, AIRILEKE, MOGU, MAUPOWER< SEAMAN DAN
The Straits is an Australian television drama series for ABC1[2] filmed in Cairns, the Torres Strait Islandsand other Far North Queensland locations.

The series follows the Montebello family, whose business involves smuggling drugs into Australia, and guns and exotic wildlife out, making use of ties of blood and loyalty in the Torres Strait Islands. When Harry Montebello, the head of the family, starts to plan his succession, he sparks a vicious family power struggle. While under attack from ambitious bikers and mercurial Papua New Guinea Raskol gangs, the family must hold together through torture, assassination, and imprisonment.

RELEASED JAN 27 2012
This is music, sounds and songs for murder, guilt and pay-back. Love and intrigue. A sense of place and amongst the metropolis of Cairns (the city in the north), to the many white sand Torress Strait Island communities and then up across the border into jungles, swampland's, mountains and atolls of Papua New Guinea.

This album showcases some of the regions unique new artists such as Maupower, Airileke, Ngaiire and Mogu as well as lengendry artists Uncle Seaman Dan, Albert David, George Telek and Kadu. Amongst the Raskols, the Church congregations, the Montoebello family subterfuge, the Cairns bikie gangs, the corrupt police, the crocodile farms, mangrove swamps and turquoise waters of the tropical north we hear string-band, reggae, hip-hop, old pearling songs, traditional sing sings and score featuring instruments unique to these parts: mambu, garamuts, warups, kundus, conch shells and of course the ubiquitous ukulele. Immerse yourself in it.

https://acquire.cqu.edu.au/articles/media/The_Straits_Original_soundtrack_recording_Songs_5_17_and_23_produced_by_Karl_Neuenfeldt_and_Nigel_Pegrum_/13457846

Source: Wantok Musik

(David Bridie & Steven Gagau. May 2025)
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Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/WM2/030b
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Originating university University of Sydney
Operator Jodie Kell
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DOI 10.26278/mhv5-2271
Cite as David Bridie (collector). Soundtrack - The Straits. MPEG/VND.WAV. WM2-030b at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/mhv5-2271
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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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