Oct 16 2024
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5
This is one of the most truly unique pieces of music I have ever heard. It's albums like these that I wish were more present on the actual list. Something that truly surprises me. Melding ancient and modern in a most unexpected way. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
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Nov 04 2024
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5
Put this one on in the car without reading a thing about it and listened to the first three songs stunned. I had no idea what I was hearing but it was beautiful and arresting.
Once I was home and continued the listen and read some background I was even more moved when I discovered this was Australian indigenous music mixed with modern orchestration.
This is defintiely something that I cannot imagine would have entered my life but for this project and the user who put it here. What a wonderful gift!
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Nov 02 2024
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5
My choice. I chose this album because it is unlike everything else on the list. The musician led an extraordinary and unique life, with a voice many may not have heard.
Despite not understanding the language, if you listen, the storytelling is still rich and beautiful. Something you must hear before you die.
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Oct 15 2024
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4
I liked this a lot. Very cool. 4 stars.
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Oct 16 2024
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4
Another very interesting thing I likely would never have encountered without this project. The combination of classical and traditional aboriginal signing and instruments really worked for me.
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Dec 03 2024
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4
Okay, thank you to whoever picked this one, for something very different and challenging in a way that all the indie rock hasn't been. Aboriginal Australian music?? Hell yeah. Really fantastic songs, cinematic soundscapes and mournful vocals (though I have no idea what's being sung). I like that the tracks are largely titled after animals or natural forces, so cool. I really dig this, appreciate the inclusion.
Favorite tracks: Djolin, Baru, Gopuru, Wulminda.
Album art: Just a shot of the artist, looking about as devastated and mournful as he sounds singing (if that is him). He passed away shortly before this was released, and this seems like a very powerful posthumous statement to release.
4/5
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Oct 16 2024
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Too oblique and ambient an effort to leave much impact - I’m of course missing the impact of the lyricism here, but an hour ten of orchestral tracks that all aim to be these grand, sweeping art pieces does not make for an LP with a sense of depth or progression. More movement and melodic variation in the instrumentals would’ve done a lot to give a sense of rise and fall, as is this just sounds like the final boss of the world’s fanciest open mic/slam poetry night.
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Oct 16 2024
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5
Haunting groovy wonderful
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Nov 04 2024
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5
An absolute gem of an album. Thank you!
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Nov 04 2024
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5
Beautiful!
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Nov 04 2024
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5
Really beautiful
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Oct 17 2024
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4
The combination of classical music and the indigenous singing fits suprisingly well
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Oct 21 2024
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4
This might be the best user submitted album that's entirely new to me. What an engaging listen.
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Oct 24 2024
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4
Unique, deep, outstanding. Great recommendation, however I won't listen again
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Oct 25 2024
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4
Really enjoyed this. Quite melodic and epic. I wish I knew what was being said, but I'd give this album another spin.
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Nov 06 2024
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4
Very good album. The production was incredible. Thanks for the recommendation, I wasn’t even aware of the existence of Gurrumul’s music.
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Nov 17 2024
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4
This is really cool and unlike anything I've ever heard, whoever contributed this, thank you for sharing.
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Oct 15 2024
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3
Full of great compositions, but judging the experience of listening through the album, a 3 from me.
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Oct 16 2024
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3
The media made a biiiiig song and dance about this guy when he died, and suddenly half my Facebook feed were big fans (they'd just never mentioned it until then, same as the ABC). Was a hot minute where I was inexplicably the only Australian who'd never heard of him. Or at least the only honest one.
Ideological jabs at self-styled white "progressives" aside, it's pretty... interesting? Definitely not something I'd listen to a lot, or much at all, but I like the blending of old and new world-esque elements, in a tasteful way. There's no real get-up-and-go, but that's also not the idea. And if I'm honest, it's refreshing to see an indigenous musician enjoy some popularity (even if posthumous) without being a fucking rapper. But not a great album. 3/5.
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Oct 17 2024
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3
Rating: 6/10
Best songs: Waak (crow)
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Oct 17 2024
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Gorgeously arranged, with expressive vocals. This was really lovely, thanks for sharing it.
Fave Songs: Waak (Crow), Djarimirri (Child of the Rainbow), Ngarrpiya (Octopus)
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Oct 17 2024
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3
Bit longer than I would have liked, but interesting
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Oct 26 2024
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3
There's some really cool orchestral/African fusion stuff on here but the whole time I was listening to it I couldn't stop wondering who loves this so much that they'd put it on this list. Most of the other albums I can see why it would be someone's fav but this is by far the most niche. Glad it's here because its an interesting album but still befuddling to me.
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Oct 29 2024
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3
A fusion of Australian aboriginal traditional with classical orchestral. Interesting and relaxing.
Rating: 3
Playlist track:Waak (Crow) in E-Flat Major
Date listened: 04/11/24
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Nov 10 2024
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3
A nice sound. The voice is a good instrument. Some orchestral sections are very similar.
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Dec 03 2024
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3
Really cool
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Dec 03 2024
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3
Powerful and moving music, especially reading that he died before this album came out. Glad this was someone's suggestion.
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Oct 17 2024
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2
Too ethnic for me, and not to mention the length. It has interesting sounds, they reminded me of the background music in the movies and that can be appreciated, but the vocals in their original language take me somewhere else. I appreciate that they want to send ethnic or cultural representatives but not all of us can appreciate and understand it as it should be in its place of origin.
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Oct 15 2024
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1
Bro, who cares what key its in
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Oct 16 2024
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1
Not one for me 👎🏻
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Oct 16 2024
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Just no.
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Nov 08 2024
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World, Aboriginal, classical crossover. Curioso, pero un rollo. Un 2. Encima laaaargo y machacón. Un 1 al final.
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