From the Bush explained

From the Bush
Type:compilation
Artist:Various artists
Cover:From the Bush.album.jpg
Released:1990
Label:CAAMA

From the Bush is a compilation album of Australian Indigenous bands released in Australia by CAAMA in 1990.[1] It was nominated for a 1991 ARIA Award for Best Indigenous Release.

Rough Guides calls it "a fine introduction to the contemporary music of Central Australia's desert regions and sparse townships."[2] Penelope Layland writing in the Canberra Times gave it a mostly negative review, saying most of the album was "fairly standard music" and "run-of-the-mill musical forms" but noting the better songs "those which incorporate at least some elements of traditional Aboriginal music or traditional instrumentation".

Track listing

  1. Don't worry just be happy – Blekbala Mujik
  2. Tjana anu wilurara – Chrysophrase
  3. Hermannsburg Mountain – Irwin Inkamala & the Country lads
  4. Mardaka nyanu – North Tanami Band
  5. She's my sister – Daryl Smith
  6. Seasons coming – Areyonga Desert Tigers
  7. Tjitji tjuta wankanyi – Titjikala Desert Oaks Band
  8. To leave this young black girl – Wairuk Band
  9. We’re the Wedgetail Eagles – Wedgetail Eagle Band
  10. Pitjantjatjara Boy Like Me – Isaac Yamma
  11. Pitulu (Petrol) – Punch Thompson
  12. Mount Doreen – Western Desert Band
  13. Blackmans crying – Frank Yamma
  14. Alice don't grow so fast – Amunda
  15. Dreamtime blues – Bill Wellington
  16. I'm telling you – Irwin Inkamala & the Country Lads
  17. Black Boy – Wedgetail Eagle Band
  18. Lajamanu – North Tanami Band
  19. Nitmiluk – Blekbala Mujik

Tracks 1,4,9,12,16,18 and 19 only appear on the cd version.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Hayward. Philip. 2016. Sound Alliances: Indigenous Peoples, Cultural Politics, and Popular Music in the Pacific. Bloomsbury Publishing . 13 . 9781474289870.
  2. Book: 1999. World Music: Latin & North America, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific. registration. From The Bush caama.. Rough Guides . 17 . 9781858286365.
  3. Web site: ARIA Awards Best Indigenous Release . Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). 4 April 2017.

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