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WANTOK VOL.1: SOUNDS OF AUSTRALASIA AND MELANESIA
Track list:
1.Mapoo Gela & Albert David - Oro (RAN Theme) 01:28
2.Paul Mac & Kayupulau - Bird Of Paradise 05:03
3.Airileke - Sook Sook Ya 04:51
4.The Phylonasa Bamboo Band - Thiso02:30
5.Mogu - Darava 03:57
6.Iwantja - Iwantja Groove 03:37
7.Frank Yamma - She Cried 05:46
8.Kajob, Tim Cole & David Bridie - Land of the Morning Star 03:17
9.Telek - West Papua (Merdeka Mix)04:03
10.Frank Yamma - Nguta Waljilpa 03:38
11.Airileke featuring Markjam Galut - Wanchef 02:11
12.Mogu - Inagwe 04:30
13.Hein Arumisore - Syofirumo 02:25
14.Telek and the Moab Stringband - Abebe 03:02
15.Patrick Mau - Warupau Nur 03:45
16.Tom Mowana & David Bridie - Bula Bula 01:41
17.Pius Wasi - Wurimp 02:59
18.Telek - Iau Ngalie 03:17
19.Iwantja - Kungka Nyuntu 04:37
20.Frank Yamma - Pitantjatjara 04:12
WANTOK MUSIK SAMPLER CD
Track list:
1.oro main theme
2.coolibah Frank Yamma
3.bird of paradise Sound of the Morning Star
4.Thiso Phulonasa Bougainville Stringband
5.Tag Mauki Albert David/Kadu
6.Will Vox Airi Ingram/William Hatch
7.Midel Telek
8.Pitjantjara Frank Yamma
9.Marrntunerra Warren Williams David Bridie
10.Wantok Krump
11.Loss Jida Gulpilil
12.Gel Pentikost Tokosouwia Stringband Vanuatu
13.Mambu Pius Wasi
14.Bula Bula Tom Mowana PNG
15.Aye Nanawe Black Paradise
16.Going Back Home Pigram Brothers
17.Sing Sing Not Drowning,Waving
18.Apuse Hein Arimsore
19.Engan Lilting Vocal Highlands
20.Goegya Buya Albert David/Dujon Nuie
21.Gormi Arma Kadu
22.Photographs Kutcha Edwards
23.Djaburr Gulay Phillip[ Roe
24Sunrise Bart Willoughby
25.Ririwon George Telek
Track details
1.ORO MAIN THEME (Mapoo Gela) Torres Strait Islands
PERFORMED BY ALBERT DAVID AND DAVID BRIDIE and the RAN choir. Lifted off the RAN(REMOTE AREA NURSE) soundtrack on the Wantok Label.RAN is A 6 PART SERIES SET ON MASIG ISLAND IN THE CENTRAL TORRES STRAIT ISLANDS.THE SOUNDTRACK CD WON THE APRA AWARD FOR BEST SOUNDTRACK CD.THE SOUNDTRACK WAS BOTH A SOUNDTRACK AND A SHOWCASE OF SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT TORRES STRAIT MUSICAL ARTISTS including Seaman Dan,Biston Special and George Passi.
2.. COOLIBAH (FRANK YAMMA) DOCKER RIVER,NORTHERN TERRITORY
.COOLIBAH A TALE OF DRINK AND PRIDE AND WAS RECORDED BY YAMMA AND BRIDIE AS PART OF THE “Corroboration” cd where indigenous and non indigenous artists teamed up in the spirit of reconciliation.FRANK YAMMA IS PERHAPS THE MOST IMPORTANT INDIGENOUS SONGWRITERS OF AUSTRALIA. Yamma should have international acclaim and the fact that he doesn’t is one of the major motivations behind the Wantok Musik Foundation
3.BIRD OF PARADISE(trad/p mac) West Papua
remix by PAUL MAC of traditional Kayupulau (jayapura) song lifted off the acclaimed “ SOUND OF THE MORNING STAR “CD released on the WANTOK label.
OFF THE SOUND OF THE MORNING STAR CD WHEREBY AUSTRALIAN SOUNDSCAPE AND REMIX ARTISTS WORKED WITH TRADITIONAL SONGS AND SPOKEN WORD FROM WEST PAPUA PERTAINING TO THE LIBERATION STRUGGLE IN THAT COUNTRY,AUSTRALIA’S CLOSEST NEIGHBOUR.THE VOCAL IS FROM MANOKWARI#####
4.THISO PHYNOLASA BOUGAINVILLE STRINGBAND.
STRING BANDS FROM BOUGAINVILLE PLAY THIS UNIQUE STYLE WHERE THE BASS LINES ARE PLAYED WITH THONGS ON BAMBOO PIPES.THIS TRACK COMES OFF A COMPILATION OF PNG STRINGBAND MUSIC THAT WANTOK PLANS TO RELEASE EARLY IN 2008.STRINGBAND MUSIC IS PLAYED EVERYWHERE THROUGHOUT THE PACIFIC, A HYBRID STYLE OF MUSIC GETTING ITS INFLUENCE FROM THE MISSIONARIES(4 PART HARMONIES) COUNTRY AND WESTERN AND BLUES MUSIC AND TRADITIONAL STYLES.THERE ARE PLANS AFOOT TO ORGANISE A SONGWRITING COMPETITION FOR THE BEST STRING BAND SONG IN ALL THE DIFFERENT PROVINCES IN PNG..THE WINNING PRIZE WILL INCLUDE THE OPPORTUNITY TO RECORD A WHOLE ALBUM WITH TIMOTHY COLE AS THE ENGINEER AND MIXER.A BIG CONCERT FEATURING THE BEST STRING BANDS WITH SPONSORSHIP FROM WORLD VISION PROMOTING A POSITIVE HEALTH MESSAGE AROUND HIV AIDS.
5.TAG MAUKI KADU/ALBERT DAVID TORRES STRAIT
.TAG MAUKI LITERALLY MEANS HANDS AND FEET AND IS A DANCE.THIS WAS PERFORMED BY ALBERT DAVID AND KING KADU ,TWO STRAPPING TORRES STRAIT ISLAND MEN AND WAS PART OF THE RAN SOUNDTRACK.
6. WILLFOX (AIRI INGRAM/WILLIAM HATCH (FIJI/GABAGABA,PNG)
Willvox - Produced by Airi Ingram, featuring William Hatch.
Sung by Will Hatch from Fiji.... the song is like sirens singing to islanders who have travelled away from home... simply saying "come home". Recorded in Darwin in 2004
7.MIDEL(TELEK)
LIFTED OFF GEORGE TELEK’S SERIOUS TAM RECORD WHICH WAS RECORDED AT REAL WORLD STUDIOS AND RELEASED INTERNATIONALLY ON REAL WORLD RECORDS.THIS KIND OF OPPORTUNITY SHOULD BE AVAILABLE TO OTHER INDIGENOUS MUSICAL ARTISTS.THIS TOO I S ONE OF WANTOK’S AMBITIONS,TO GIVE INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION TO THE FINEST INDIGENOUS MUSICIANS.THAT INDIG AND MELANESIAN MUSIC IS THE LEAST REPRESENTED AMONGST ALL THE REGIONS OF THE WORLD IS A CRYING SHAME THAT NEED TO BE RECTIFIED
8. PITJANTJARA FRANK YAMMA.YAMMA IS FROM DOCKER RIVER IN THE NORTHERN TERRITORY AND IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND ASTOUNDING INDIGENOUS SINGER SONGWRITERS IN THE COUNTRY.PITJANTJARA WON THE APRA AWARD FOR THE BEST SONG IN A FILM 2006.IT WAS IN THE THE ALICE”TELEMOVIE “
9..MARRNTUNERRA WARREN WILLIAMS/NOKTURNL .
AN ARRERNTE MAN FROM HERMANNSBURG, WILLIAMS WROTE THIS AS PART OF THE OPERA BEING PRODUCED ABOUT THE LIFE OF THE CONTROVERSIAL TED STREHLOW FROM HERMANNSBURG..DAMIEN AND CRAIG FROM NOKTURNL WERE ALSO INVOLVED IN THIS COLLABORATION CREATING THE SUBLIME GROOVE.
10.wantok krump …Melanesia contemporary
Wantok Krump: Produced by Vadim Juste-Constant for the Grrilla Step project. Recorded in Darwin in 2007
11.LOSS JIDA GULPILIL. WEMBA WEMBA/RAMAGINING,ARNHEM LAND
Son of legendary actor David,jida a Wemba Wemba /Ramagining man sang this song as part of the British working title film “Gone”(2006)Gulpilil is currently working on a traditional Koori language album for Wantok revitalising Koori language songs that have been in danger f being post.
12.GEL PENTECOST BY THE Tokosouwia STRING BAND OF VANUATU.Another stringband song in the unique Vanuatu style.Gel pentikos was a huge hit in Vanuatu in 2006. Vanuatu string band music was revitalised over the last 5 years by a national competition held to re encourage the music .Every village in Melanesia has a stringband,made up of guitars and a ukulele and a bunch of singers singing local village stories.The style is instantly appealing.This hybrid form of music has been indanger of being eradicated due to being swamped by western pop music but asis the case in Vanuatu ,with some encouragement the music stormed back into fashion and as was the case with gel pentikos ,right back up the charts.A similar competition is planned for pNG.in the 80s every store in PNG sold stringband cassettes.Now you cannot find cassette or cds of stringband music anywhere,but it is slowly forcing its way back into the nations focusIt is a musical style idiosyncratic to the Pacific and it would be an utter shame to see it disappear
12.ABEBE MOAB STRINGBAND RABAUL PNG
,Led by internationally acclaimed singer Goerge Telek and featuring the renowned Wagi on bass,this song about butterfly spirit sung in the Kuanua language is a classic from Raluana Village Rabaul PNG.The Moab stringband have just released a new album on WANTOK entitled MATOGO
13.MAMBU – PIUS WASI. SEPIK RIVER PNG
MAMBU IS TOK PISIN FOR BAMBOO.PIUS WASI IS A MASTER BAMBOO FLUTE PLAYER.HERE,WASI IS PLAYING IN THE HIGHLANDS STYLE .EACH PROVINCE HAS THEIR OWN IDIOSYNCRATIC STYLE OF PLAYING..WASI ALONG WITH BEN HAKALITZ WAS RECENTLY FORMED THE BAND “TRIBE OF JUBAL” CONTINUING ON THE TRADITION STARTED BY THE BAND SANGUMA FRONTED BY FELLOW SEPIK MUSICIAN TONY SUBAM WHICH AIMED TO FUSE TRADITIONAL AND CONTEMPORARY STYLES OF MUSIC AND PROVE TO YOUNG PAPUA NEW GUINEANS THAT THEIR OWN HOME GROWN MUSIC IS AS IMPORTANT AND COOL AS ANYTHING OFFERED UP BY THE OUTSIDE WORLD.
14.BULA BULA TOM MOWANA from Kaibola village, Trobriand Islands PNG
TOM sang this Trobriand Island song as part of the AFI and ARIA award winning soundtrack to the film “In a Savage Land”,produced by david bridie
15.AYE NANAWE BLACK PARADISE , (west papua)
led by Ferry Marisan toured Australia and performed at the Morning Star concert to promote the cause of the embattled West Papuan people.The hit of the concert Black Paradise performed their unique bran of West Papuan stringband to over 2000 people at the Melbourne Concert Hallma as well as to a series of smaller regional concerts up and down the east coast of Australia.Ferry Marisan as since formed a new band Eyuser and has released as titled album on Wantok in 2007 dedicated to the musical martyr Arnold Ap who was assassinated for promoting West Papuan music in the jail in Jayapura in 1984
15.WEST PAPUA GEORGE TELEK.A song recorded by telek on his Amette album of 2005 in tribute to his Melanesian brothers and sisters on the other side of the border.Telek recorded this song after spending time with the Black Paradise string band from West Papua and learning of the plight of these people.
16 GOING BACK HOME (pigram brothers) broome w.a.
THIS SONG BY THE PIGRAM BROTHERS,IS AN AUSTRALIAN CLASSIC.LIFTED OFF THE SOUNDTRACK TO THE SBS SERIES THE CIRCUIT,ABOUT LEGAL FACED BY LAWYERS IN THE ABORIGINAL LEGAL SERVICE IN AROUND BROOME AND THE KIMBERLEYS.THE PIGRAM BROTHERS, THROUGH THEIR STUDIO THE PEARL SHELL STUDIO HAVE PRODUCED A WHOLE HEAP OF MUSICAL TALENT AND SONGWRITERS IN NORTH WESTERN AUSTRALIA such as Patrick Davies,Kerianne Cox.
17SING SING Not Drowning , Waving .Recorded on the landmark 1988 album Tabaran whereby NDW travelled to Rabaul and recorded the album at the Pacific Gold Studio in collaboration with George Telek and other musicians of the Pacific Gold Studios.the album was re released on dvd in 2005.
18.APUSE HEIN ARIMSORE.HEIN IS FROM MANOKWARI IN WEST PAPUA.HEIN WAS CERTAINLY ONE OF THE STANDOUT HIGHLIGHTS OF THE 2006 SING SING CONCERTS AT THE OPERA HOUSE AND HAMER HALL .WHILST DIMINUTIVE IN STATURE HEIN HAS A COMMANDING PRESENCE ON STAGE DUE TO BOTH HIS GLORIOUS VOICE AND SUBLIME DANCING SKILLS..HEIN ARIMSORE IS PLANNING AN ALBUM RELEASE IN 2008 WHERE HE WILL SING TRADITIONAL WEST PAPUA VOCALS OVER MELANESIAN DANCE ORIENTATED RHYTHMS SIMILAR IN STYLE TO “APUSE”.
AN ALBUM RELEASE IN 2008 WHERE HE WILL SING TRADITIONAL WEST PAPUA VOCALS OVER MELANESIAN DANCE ORIENTATED RHYTHMS SIMILAR IN STYLE TO “APUSE”.
19.ENGAN VOCAL WABAG.PNG HAS ONE THIRD OF THE WORLD'S LANGUAGES.THIS IS A PHENOMENAL STATISTIC AND IT IS REFLECTED IN THE AMOUNT OF DISTINCTIVE MUSICS AND CARVINGS THAT ARE INTEGRAL TO THE DIVERSE RANGE OF CULTURAL OUTPOURINGS FROM ALL OF THESE CULTURAL GROUPS.THE ENGAN PEOPLE ARE IN THE WESTERN HIGHLANDS.WANTOK PLANS TO RECORD AND RELEASE A SERIES OF TRADITIONAL RECORDINGS.AS THE TRAPPINGS OF THE WESTERN WORLD INFILTRATE THE LIFESTYLE OF GRASSROOTS PAPUA NEW GUINEA ,IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT THESE SONGS ARE SEEN TO BE VALUED BY YOUNG PAPUA NEW GUINEANS AND TAUGHT AND PASSED ON.WANTOK BELIEVE THAT THE RECORDING AND PROMOTING AND VALUING TRADITIONAL MUSICS WILL HELP TO SUSTAIN THEIR EXISTENCE OVER THE COMING YEARS.
20.GOEGYA BUYA (DUJON NUIE0 PERF. BY ALBERT DAVID
WESTERN TSI
LIFTED OFF THE RAN SOUNDTRACK ,GOEGYA BUYA IS A SUNRISE SONG.THE BED TRACK WAS LAID DOWN BY WANTOK MUSICIANS AIRI INGRAM FROM DRUM DRUM AND BEN HAKALITZ FROM TELEK/TRIBE OF JUBAL AND YOTHUTINDITHE PNG MUSICIANS RECOGNISE MUCH OF MELANESIAN CULTURE IN THE TORRES STRAIT SONGS AND ALSO THEIR LANGUAGE.EXPLORING THE COMMONALITIES BETWEEN MELANESIA AND INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIA IS ONE OF THE MOTIVATIONS BEHIND THE FORMATION OF THE WANTOK MUSIK FOUNDATION.
21.GORMI AMA KADU. TSI.
RICARDO IDAGU IS FROM MURRAY ISLAND (MER).HE HAS AN ALBUM OUT CALLED LISTEN TO MY DRUM AND IS CURRENTLY HALF WAY THROUGH RECORDING ANOTHER ALBUM TO BE RELEASED ON WANTOK IN 2008.
22.PHOTOGRAPHS KUTCHA EDWARDS.
KUTCHA EDWARDS IS AN IMPORTANT FIGURE IN THE KOORI MUSIC SCENE OF VICTORIA.KUTCHA IS A TOWERING FIGURE BOTH PHYSICALLY AND IN HIS ROLE AS A MENTOR TO KOORI YOUTH.EDWARDS DOES MANY MUSICAL WORKSHOPS IN PRISONS AND TRAINING CENTRES TO BOTH INDIGENOUS AND NON INDIGENOUS CLIENTS.THIS SONG IS LIFTED OFF HIS NEW CD “HOPE”.EDWARDS IS YET ANOTHER ARTIST DESERVING OF FAR GREATER EXPOSURE. KUTCH IS A VOICE THAT NEEDS TO BE HEARD
23 DJABURR GULAY PHILIP ROE KIMBERLEYS
TITLE MUSIC FROM THE SERIES THE CIRCUIT MIXING TRADITIONAL
24 SUNRISE BART WILLOUGHBY
BART WILLOUGHBY WAS LEAD SINGER OF THE PIONEERING ABORIGINAL BAND NO FIXED ADDRESS WHO PAVED THE WAY FOR THOSE WHO WERE TO FOLLOW.HE ALSO FORMED MIXED RELATIONS AND PLAYED IN THE WARUMPI BAND AND YPTHU YOINDI AT VARIOUS STAGES OF HIS CAREER.BART DESERVES TO BE RECOGNISED AS A MAJOR PLAYER AND AN IMMENSELY TALENTED AND INSPIRED INDIGENOUS PERFORMER..BART IS [PART OF THE 2007 SING SING AND IS ABOUT TO RECORD A NEW ALBUM WHICH WILL HEART OF THE WANTOK RELEASES.
25 RIRIWON GEORGE TELEK RABAUL PNG
TRADITIONAL TOLAIS SONG SUNG IN THE KUANUA LANGUAGE.A BEAUTIFUL ACAPELLA SONG THAT PROVIDES A FITTING MOOD TO CLOSE OFF THIS COMPILATION CD.
Source: Wantok Musik
(David Bridie & Steven Gagau, May 2025) |
