Reviews

Maatakitj

Maatakitj

Following up on his 2022 six-track collaboration Noongar Wonderland with Aussie dance music producer Paul Mac (reviewed in #181), Indigenous...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Celebration

Common Kings

Like many of their Oceanic compatriots, ever since their 2013 debut California-based quartet Common Kings have managed to craft a...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Mokuy

Hand to Earth

Two years on from their exquisite self-titled 2021 debut album (five stars in #172), the Hand To Earth ensemble –...

Reviewed in issue March/2024

Songs From Walking with Spirits

VARIOUS ARTISTS | Various Artists

The re-release of this 2007 album showcases an extraordinary collaboration that brought together Aboriginal songmen with other Australian musicians. It...

Reviewed in issue July/2023

ORO, PLATA, MATA

Mo’Ju

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

Call of the Whipbird

SUBSET

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

Ol Sing Blong Plantesen (Plantation Songs)

Ol Sing Blong Plantesen

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

One Voice

Garrangali

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

Ngulmiya

Ngulmiya

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

Hawaiki

Taimane

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