What’s in a name? Why is your label called what you’re called? CAAMA Music is part of the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA), Australia’s leading Aboriginal owned and controlled media organisation, based in Alice Springs. For over thirty years now CAAMA has been delivering culturally relevant content that helps to preserve and maintain…
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What’s in a name? Why is your label called what you’re called? “Birds of a feather flock together” would be the poetic response. Actually, my friend Alex Tulett came up with the name a while ago – I don’t know the exact reasoning behind it, but he always says it was to have something to put on our…
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What’s in a name? Why is your label called what you’re called? Our label is called Wantok, which comes from a Tok Pisin word in PNG [Papua New Guinea] that means “One Talk” as a way of expressing a relationship with someone from your same village. However, it has a wider connotation of meaning an…
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The Growl are in the midst of a slammin’ Australian tour in support of the release of their new album “What Would Christ Do?”. That album is friggin’ great. Dark blues inflicted rock with dense textures, a great sense of drama and a swagger wide as hell. If you haven’t heard the howling, stately-paced new single Liarbird, you’re…
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It is our experience that any musical experiment which combines two cultures, no matter how disparate, will always make for intriguing results. Collaborations between any combination of musicians inevitably leave us with a musical artefact that is worthwhile listening regardless of the commercial or artistic success of the project. So it goes without saying that Yolanda Be Cool’s treatment of Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunipingu (arguably the…
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