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WM2-063a
Title Maubere Timor - Album
Description In 2014, a band was formed to revive music from the East Timorese resistance (Freedom Fighters) through their struggle for Independence from Indonesian occupation and to honour songs from the past that are now part of a long history. In collaboration with the Prime Minister’s Office for Veterans Affairs and Wantok Musik, ‘Maubere Timor’ was born. This project recorded an album of 12 songs that delivers an array of tracks both uplifting and melancholic to demonstrate years of hope and isolation within a nation.

Maubere Timor is an ensemble of old school Timor-Leste veterans who spread their love of power in speech and songs of their past that will solidify their heroic history and the memory of the resistance movement for future generations. Recorded by David Bridie at Wantok Studios in Melbourne, it traces the history of these men who used music as cultural and political resistance as a way of spreading messages of hope in support of their struggle for national liberation within East Timor. Song was their last and only hope in spreading awareness in support of their battle for liberty and these messages were filled with experiences and adventures of war, preparation for guerrilla fighters and to instil hope in others to continue their battle for Independence - which they eventually... more
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released October 12, 2017

Gil Santos (guitar)
José Ribeiro (baterista)
José Mesquita (batukes)
Marcos Varudo Junior (baixu)
Paulo Almeida (kantór)
Ken Gardner (trombeta)
John Bedgood (violinu, ukulele)
Adam Hutterer (saxophone)
David Bridie (piano, organ)

Produced by David Bridie
Engineered by Andrew Robinson
Mastered by Simon Polinski

Recorded at the Haus Bilas studios, Thornbury Melbourne in June 2016

Photos by Maggie Miles
CD design by Jorge De Araujo and Lime Design Group

Coordinated by Paulo Almeida

Released by Wantok Musik

Source: Wantok Musik

(David Bridie & Steven Gagau, May 2025)
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Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/WM2/063a
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Originating university University of Sydney
Operator Jodie Kell
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DOI 10.26278/ecy8-r314
Cite as David Bridie (collector). Maubere Timor - Album. WM2-063a at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/ecy8-r314
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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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