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Review of ORO, PLATA, MATA

ORO, PLATA, MATA

Mo’Ju

Virgin Music Australia

Rating: ★★★

An artist who has often dealt with issues of self-identity, gender and race, Mo’Ju (formerly Mojo Juju) has always been...

Reviewed in issue July/2023

Review of Call of the Whipbird

Call of the Whipbird

SUBSET

Dubmission Records

Rating: ★★★

SUBSET (aka Karl Muller) is a New Zealand-born musician/producer/photographer, who has been based in Australia for 20 years. Working out...

Reviewed in issue July/2023

Review of Ol Sing Blong Plantesen (Plantation Songs)

Ol Sing Blong Plantesen (Plantation Songs)

Ol Sing Blong Plantesen

Top of the World

Wantok Musik

Rating: ★★★★

This unique collection of songs chronicles a sad 40-year period of Pacific history, from 1860 to the turn of the...

Reviewed in issue July/2023

Review of One Voice

One Voice

Garrangali

Garrangali

Rating: ★★★★

An 11-piece band from the small indigenous community of Baniyala, situated on Blue Mud Bay in the Top End’s Gulf...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2023

Review of Ngulmiya

Ngulmiya

Ngulmiya

Top of the World

Bapa Gajah

Rating: ★★★★★

Ngulmiya (aka Grant) Nundhirribala hails from the Aboriginal community of Numbulwar, on the south-east coast of Indigenous Arnhem Land in...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2023

Review of Hawaiki

Hawaiki

Taimane

Taimane

Rating: ★★★

Rising Polynesian uke star Taimane Gardner is a hapa-Samoan (part-Caucasian, part-Samoan) player raised in Hawaii. A musical prodigy, she was...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2023

Review of Kambek (I Lilikun Mulai)

Kambek (I Lilikun Mulai)

George Telek

Wantok Musik

Rating: ★★★★

George Mamua Telek MBE has long been a music legend in Papua New Guinea. His fame stems from his time...

Reviewed in issue January/February/2023

Review of King Stingray

King Stingray

King Stingray

Cooking Vinyl Australia

Rating: ★★★

The debut album from this hot young Arnhem Land band follows on from the success of both their live show,...

Reviewed in issue October/2022

Review of A Chant About the Beauty of the Moon at Night: Hawaiian Steel Guitar Masters 1913-1921

A Chant About the Beauty of the Moon at Night: Hawaiian Steel Guitar Masters 1913-1921

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Magnificent Sounds

Rating: ★★★

With Spanish guitars having been well established in the Hawaiian islands since the mid-1800s, local 16-year-old guitarist Joseph Kekuku is...

Reviewed in issue October/2022

Review of Ailan Songs Project: Four Winds

Ailan Songs Project: Four Winds

Jessie Lloyd

Jessie Lloyd

Rating: ★★★★

Indigenous singer and social historian Jessie Lloyd is the daughter of Joe Geia, a member of pioneering 1970s/80s Aboriginal band...

Reviewed in issue October/2022

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