{"id":5637,"date":"2011-05-29T18:59:46","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T07:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/?p=5637"},"modified":"2011-05-29T22:11:14","modified_gmt":"2011-05-29T11:11:14","slug":"iwantja-band-launch-palya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2011\/05\/iwantja-band-launch-palya\/","title":{"rendered":"Iwantja Band launch ‘Palya’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Around the remoter parts of Australia there’s a ferment of contemporary music and Australian languages. I had a taste of this a week ago in Tennant Creek, where I learnt of a freshly released album from Iwantja Band, now on their launch journey<\/a> (Iwantja Band launch Palya<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Cover art for 'Palya'<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I caught some of the enthusiasm from Patrick McCloskey<\/a>, a freelance music producer working with the Winanjjikari Music Centre<\/a> ((The name is Warumungu, wina-njji-kari<\/em> ‘sing-Nom-Genitive’; see also WMC’s blog<\/a>)) at Tennant Creek.<\/p>\n

Most of the songs on the album (eg Kungka Nyuntu, Wamanguru) are in Pitjantjatjara \/ Yankunytjatjara, languages spoken at Iwantja (perhaps better known as Indulkana<\/a>), some 900km south of Tennant Creek. It suited the band to use a studio not in a city, or in intermediate Alice Springs, but at Winanjjikari<\/a> in Tennant Creek. And there is more to the mix, as the band’s manager says in an interview<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Music NT<\/strong>: It\u2019s so great that the band sing in language \u2013 do you think the success of Gurrumul<\/a> around the world is an encouragement to Indigenous bands like Iwantja?
\nMark Smerdon<\/strong> [Iwantja Band\u2019s manager]: I guess so\u2026 The connection with Gurrumul is quite strong as Stewart is his first cousin, has a similar sounding voice and wrote many songs with Gurrumul. Jeremy sees his role as bridging the gap between European culture and Anangu culture and language is a very important component in that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Funding has come to the Song Peoples Project<\/a>, under the umbrella of Barkly Regional Arts<\/a>, from MILR (the Australian Government Maintenance of Indigenous Languages and Records Program<\/a>); and from Winanjjikari Music Centre<\/a>‘s partnership with Wantok Musik Foundation<\/a> which thus brings in links with Melanesia.<\/p>\n

\u2018Palya<\/em> will be available to download at iTunes soon, and is also available from CAAMA Music stores in Alice Springs<\/a>‘ ((http:\/\/musicnt.com.au\/2011\/05\/06\/iwantja-band-launch-palya\/<\/a>)); Iwantja Band already have two tracks on the album ‘SnapShot’ on the iTunes Store<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Iwantja Band (and much more) will be at the Desert Harmony Festival 2011 Anyinginyi Manu<\/a> ((The Warumungu name is anyi-nginyi manu<\/em> ‘1stPluralInclusive-Genitive country’)) in Tennant Creek, 26 August – 4 September 2011, and a further launch is planned for Borroloola in October 2011.<\/p>\n

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