Reviews
Tell Me Why
Widely acknowledged as one of Australia’s most celebrated indigenous singer-songwriters, Archie Roach’s long career is slowly drawing to a close....
Reviewed in issue December/2020
Dark Matter
Ever since 1982, when Australia’s I Goanna band gifted I radio stations their enduring Top 10 hit ‘Solid Rock’, the...
Reviewed in issue October/2020
Red Desert Man
Indigenous singer-songwriter Dave Arden is a gifted Kokatha-Gunditjmara guitarist, storyteller and contemporary songman. Previously best known as a collaborator and...
Reviewed in issue October/2020
‘Akilotoa: Anthology 1994-2006
Known for their close harmonies and full-throated performances, sisters Vika and Linda Bull first burst onto the Australian music scene...
Reviewed in issue October/2020
Colour by Number
Having grown up in Australia’s Northern Territory city of Darwin, singer-songwriter Leah Flanagan proudly claims a mixed multicultural heritage that...
Reviewed in issue October/2020
Classic Recordings 1929-1949
While several early Hawaiian steel guitar players have had their recordings reissued over the years, until recently one important pioneer...
Reviewed in issue April/2020
Tjukurpa: The Story/Kulila: The Remixes
With his own career somewhat overshadowed by the commercial success of other Aboriginal songmen like Archie Roach and the late...
Reviewed in issue April/2020
We Have Come to Testify
An important historical and political documentary album, this recording and the accompanying illustrative book are an intertwining of translated spoken-word...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2020
Nēvēnek: Ground Music from Torba Province, Vanuatu
Previously known as the New Hebrides, Vanuatu is an archipelago of 82 volcanic islands, located in the Western Pacific's Coral...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2020
Blue Lotus the Awakening
Mau Power (aka Patrick Mau) hails from Thursday Island in the Torres Strait – that chain of Australian islands between...
Reviewed in issue Jan/Feb/2020
