Bushfire - Traditional Aboriginal Music
[EUCD0227]

CD Information • CD Title: Bushfire - Traditional Aboriginal Music • Artist(s): Various Artists • CD Code: EUCD0227 • Tracks: 72 (2CD) • Playing Time: 92:20 min • Booklet Info in: English, Spanish, French

This double album of traditional didgeridoo music was recorded live, in the field, in the Kimberley Mountains of northern Australia. The album features some of the finest local didgeridoo players and songmen, and presents various different styles: Wongga, Djunba, Bandrru, Balga, and Moraburr. Total playing time: 1 hr. 32 min.

Track Listing:

CD I

Wongga
Dusty Legune (Songman, sticks), Campbell Allenbar (Didjeridoo)
1. Love Song 1:19
2. Mosquito 1:28
3. Buffalo 1:42
4. Bushfire 1:31
5. Initiation Song 1:20
6. Saltwater 2:13
7. Mook Mook 1:19
8. Darwin Cyclone 2:10

Dusty Legune, Arthur Toby (Songmen, sticks), Nelson Barunga (Didjeridoo)
1. Bushfire 1:15
2. Mook Mook 1:09
3. Love Song 1:34

Arthur Toby, Jimmy Mullane (Songmen, sticks), Christopher Fry (Didjeridoo)
1. Brolga 1:17
2. Mud Lark 1:00
3. Buffalo 1:14
4. Black Cockatoo 1:24

Arthur Toby (Songman, didjeridoo & sticks), Jimmy Mullane (Songman, didjeridoo & sticks), Collier Bangmorra (Songman, sticks)
1. Open Plain 1:50
2. Initiation Song 1:05
3. Brolga 1:00

Jimmy Mullane, Arthur Toby (Songmen, sticks), Rastus Willinji (Didjeridoo)
1. Lilga 1:07
2. Mosquito 0:50
3. Mosquito 1:10
4. Initiation song 1:03
5. Chinaman 0:55
6. Fishing Song 0:58

Djunba

Singers: Lorrie Utemorrah, Daisy Utemorrah, Amy Peters, Pudja Barunga, Daisy Martin
1. Fast Walk (in 2 parts, 0:48 & 0:52)
2. Lightning 0:58
3. Dugout Canoe 1:18
4. Wounded Warrior (in 2 parts, 1:07 & 0:49)
5. Bushwoman 0:53
6. Breast Mountains (in 2 parts, 1.09 & 1:00)
7. Daduru 2:36
8. Body Painting 1:42
9. Baby 1:25
10. Whirlpool 1:11
11. Cyclone Tracy 1:14
12. Stranger 0:55

CD II

Wongga: 16 Initiation Songs (17:18)
Didjeridoo: Louis Karadada, Songman: Lorrie Utemorrah (except songs 11 & 12 where Louis sings and Lorrie blows the didjeridoo.)

Bandrru: 6 Island Songs (7:00)
Balga
1. Bush Fig (1:09)
2. Night Fishing (1:05)
3. Spirit Man (1:02)
4. Sea Storm (1:00)
5. Dust Song (1:37)
6. Out with the Tide (1:38)

Moraburr Songman: Jeffery Mangolamara
1. Puppy Dog (0:42)
2. Wrong Road (0:40)
3. Whale (0:41)
4. Island Current (0:40)
5. Flying Fox (0:42)
6. Islands in a Line (0:42) Djunba
1. 15 August 1987 (0:59)
2. Billy King (1:05)