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Review of Take Care, Take Cover

Take Care, Take Cover

The Mae Trio

The Mae Trio

Rating: ★★★★

Building on the promise of their fine 2014 debut album, Housewarming, and 2015's EP September, Melbourne's Mae Triocontinue to impress...

Reviewed in issue October/2017

Review of Resonance

Resonance

Bart Willoughby

Bart Willoughby

Rating: ★★★

The musical pedigree of Pitjantjatjara man Bart Willoughby goes back to the late 1970s, when he founded the pioneering Aboriginal...

Reviewed in issue October/2017

Review of Te Vaka Beats: Vol I

Te Vaka Beats: Vol I

Te Vaka

Spirit of Play

Rating: ★★★★

With ancestral links to the small Pacific islands of Tuvalu and Tokelau, Polynesian group Te Vaka originally formed in New...

Reviewed in issue October/2017

Review of Beneath the Surface

Beneath the Surface

Kutcha Edwards

Kutcha Edwards

Rating: ★★★

The latest release from Melbourne-based Aboriginal singer-songwriter Kutcha Edwards further expands his repertoire of heartfelt songs, delivered with honesty and...

Reviewed in issue May/2017

Review of Blastoma

Blastoma

Ngaiire

Sony Music

Rating: ★★★

The second album from Papua New Guinea-born singer Ngaiire (pronounced Ny-rie) may be a step in a more commercial direction,...

Reviewed in issue May/2017

Review of Ngiya Awungarra – I Am Here, Now

Ngiya Awungarra – I Am Here, Now

Ngarukuruwala

Rouseabout/Undercover

Rating: ★★★★

The indigenous culture of the two main Tiwi Islands – Melville and Bathurst, some 80km north of Darwin – has...

Reviewed in issue May/2017

Review of Are’are’

Are’are’

Charles Maimarosia

Wantok Musik

Rating: ★★★★

Hailing from southern Malaita in the Solomon Islands, east of Papua New Guinea, Charles Maimarosia was the original lead singer-songwriter...

Reviewed in issue May/2017

Review of Let Love Rule

Let Love Rule

Archie Roach

Liberation Records

Rating: ★★★★

Listening to veteran Aboriginal singer-songwriter Archie Roach's tenth album is a tender and touching experience. The title-track opens with the...

Reviewed in issue March/2017

Review of Discover Music from the Pacific

Discover Music from the Pacific

VARIOUS ARTISTS

ARC Music

Rating: ★★★★

Part of the ARC label's Discover series, this compilation features music from across the many island nations of the Pacific....

Reviewed in issue March/2017

Review of New Era Frequency

New Era Frequency

Nattali Rize & Notis

Roots Level

Rating: ★★★

Best known as the dynamic frontwoman for Australian roots band Blue King Brown, Nattali Rize (aka Natalie Pa’apa’a) has recently...

Reviewed in issue March/2017

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