1. Wiyathul
2. Djärimirri
3. Bäpa
4. Gurrumul History (I Was Born Blind)
5. Marrandil
6. Marwurrumburr
7. Galiku
8. Baywara
9. Gäthu Mäwula
10. Galupa
11. Wirrpanu
12. Wukun
Product Description
2008 album from the former member of Yothu Yindi (and currently with Saltwater Band). Blind from birth, Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu is a powerhouse of musical creativity. His solo excursions highlight his amazing talent as a singer/songwriter/musician and his beautiful voice singing the songs of his Gumatj country. His solo performances are a rare treat and should not be missed. With the release of this his first solo album, Geoffrey highlights the tremendous talent and influence he has to offer Indigenous music in Australia, that can reverberate around the world. Skinnyfish.
Album Description
2008 album from the former member of Yothu Yindi (and currently with Saltwater Band). Blind from birth, Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu is a powerhouse of musical creativity. His solo excursions highlight his amazing talent as a singer/songwriter/musician and his beautiful voice singing the songs of his Gumatj country. His solo performances are a rare treat and should not be missed. With the release of this his first solo album, Geoffrey highlights the tremendous talent and influence he has to offer Indigenous music in Australia, that can reverberate around the world. Skinnyfish.
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Gurrumul
- Audio CD: 0 pages (2008-11-04)
- Publisher: 101 DISTRIBUTION
- Label: 101 DISTRIBUTION
- Format: Import
- Studio: 101 DISTRIBUTION
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 6 reviews
- Sales Rank in Music: #5323
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Summary: Geoffrey Gurrumul 2008-11-13
Comment: This man's voice could melt granite.He is the new Donovan,Van Morrison,Cat Stevens and many more.He is a rare find in a commercial market.Buy this C.D. and drink in this music- a rare talent!
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Summary: satisfying and inspirational 2008-11-05
Comment: I saw a review of this CD in Songlines and decided to buy it. I am glad I did. Very satisfying, melodic and emotional. Not at all like my old digeridoo CDs of hard to listen to songs. The production values are great, the songs are very interesting and I felt that I was at the doorway of a new (and very old) world.
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Summary: Accessible Spirit. Stunning Music....and Another Bridge on the Journey. 2008-10-26
Comment: As I write this I am the 4th person to review Gurrumul's CD. Firstly, I want to endorse the 3 previous reviews; mine should be read as an addition, certainly not as a replacement.
To put it mildly, there has always been a gulf between "European" Australians (like me) and indigenous Australians. Many people have tried to build bridges; sport has been a bridge, though predominantly (not exclusively) a bridge for men.
Since the 1970s, art - in all its forms - has been a bridge of great importance. And in February 2008, the (then) recently elected Prime Minister of Australia (Kevin Rudd) made a formal apology to Aboriginal Australians for...well....where do you start?
Anyway, the point of this preface is that I believe that Gurrumul's music, as well as being superb in its own right (see previous reviews) is also a bridge; a place on which "European" Australia and indigenous Australia can meet, commune, and continue the path of reconciliation.
For people who are not Australian, this album is an insight into the journey we are on to bring our nation together. For Australians, this is a celebration of how far we have come, and an sign that we can go further - together.
One of the reasons this is so is that Gurrumul lets us in to his world, and also acknowledges ours. It is stunning, musically and sociologically.
Great music is always wonderful to listen to, and it is also something more - it says something, challenges us,and it moves people. This truly is great music.
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Summary: Superb 2008-10-05
Comment: Early last month, National Public Radio carried a short segment on Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu. The story was fascinating, but the music that closed the segment made me stop my truck and just listen.
Bruce Elder, a music critic for the "Sydney Morning Herald" said that Gurumul doesn't fit the mold of traditional aboriginal music.
"There are two very clear strands. If you listen to authentically traditional music, it tends to be ... be short and repetitive. Beyond that, the largest area of traditional aboriginal music is clearly country music." He added that Aboriginal singers who break with this tradition tend to sing songs with a political message, lamenting the loss of their ancestral land, or the fate of the so-called 'stolen generation' - aboriginal children taken from their parents and forced to live a European way of life.
Gurrumul is unique; he sings in Yolngu Matha, his native language, about what Aborigines call "the dreamtime."
I was able to obtain a copy of this release on my way home, and have now listened to it several times. It reminded me of Bruce Chatwin's The Songlines, and encouraged me to re-read Chatwin's book while listening to Gurrumul: for the first time I had a glimpse of Chatwin's thesis that language started as song, and the aboriginal dreamtime sings the land into existence.
Gurrumul's also encouraged me to take out my copy of The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture; the images seemed to speak to me in entirely new ways. (We had hoped to buy an original painting during a trip to Australia a few years ago, but the prices for great work was well above my pay scale, and we settled for this fine reference.)
Whether you read, look and listen, or just listen, go to the link of the NPR show in the first Comment. I promise you will find some wonderful music.
Robert C. Ross 2008
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Summary: breathtaking! 2008-08-02
Comment: The first time I heard Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu's voice I was in a store...I asked an assistant who was singing...it felt that never had I heard such a voice..almost somehow beyond beyond...mystical...the joy I feel when I play the cd..his voice fills my home ...recently I had it playing while friends were arriving..they all commented...treat yourself to something exquisite...buy this cd!
somehow or other his music seems to travel with me...his music becomes the listener...enters the soul..
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