Frank Yamma: Countryman - review

(Wantok Musik/Proper)The international success of the soulful singer-songwriter Gurrumul has led to a flurry of interest in the music of the indigenous peoples of Australia. Quite right too, for there are other fine Aboriginal performers, as shown by the Black Arm Band project and now this set by Frank Yamma, the first release on a new label specialising in music from the region. Like those other musicians, he concentrates on the history and problems of his homeland, but does so using western ...

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