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N​ē​v​ē​nek: Ground Music from Torba Province, Vanuatu

by Musicians of Torba Province, Vanuatu

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Father Levi Sandy - Nagwn Tamat 02:29
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Vilian Pride - Beve Nu Ao 01:30
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Dolap Water Music - Freshwater Spring Bubbling 01:38
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Chief Willie Plasua - Farewell Song 01:52
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Black Bamboo Band - Ea Eale 01:31 video
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Chief Willie Plasua & John Star - Tam Tam Beat 00:37
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Christopher Qwat - Suwave Song 01:48
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Jerol Qalqet - Independence Storian 04:03
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John Mark Woklo - Oio 02:29
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Chief Willie Plasua & John Star - Death of the Chief 00:35
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Ontar Sunshine String Band feat. Levi Sandy - Green Island Song 02:04
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Gaua Green Island song Welkam to yu, oh listen to me From the top northern part of Vanuatu It’s the sweet province called Torba province Gaua, the ailan of paradise Gala ailan province yu nais tumas Ples we yu reflectim paradise Ples we u relax long tru happiness Kam long Torba province Gaua
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Henry Elai - Paia Women 01:18
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Totolag Kastom Group feat John Wilson - Nawat Titi (Dance of Vin Walwal) 02:29
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Vanwe String Band - Seloynamya 02:34
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Dolap Water Music - School Of Fish 02:19
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Chief Nicholson - Rowa 01:09
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Susan Wongui - Welicud 00:39
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Jerol Qalqet - Qat 01:25
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Margaret Gaua - Ehave Rea 01:25
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Dolap Warer Music - Waves break on the reef 02:16
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Leserpla Tam Tam Group - No Dung Gi Jaoo 01:48
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Vanwe String Band - Al 01:47
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John Henry Richard - Aiyawo 01:02
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Black Bamboo Band - Eale Sivigi Sivigi 01:43
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Totolag Kastom Group - Gre Tu 03:11
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Richard Woris - Blackbirding 03:58
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Village chatter 04:12
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about

In the north eastern corner of the Coral Sea is a group of reefs, atolls, and islands, a complex aqua/archi-pelago - where the 9000 residents share more than 15 languages and one overarching cosmology of respect, which they refer to as Qat.

In 2018, Sandy Sur invited a team of producers and researchers to experience the Dung Verei - the sounds of four of these islands: Gaua, Ureparapara, Rowa and Mota Lava.

Nēvēnek: Ground Music from Torba Province, Vanuatu features songs and stories that touch on all of the elements of Banks Islands culture and introduce some other less familiar aspects.

From soaring vocal harmonies to the breathy solos of elders, from bamboo pipes to ground plates, these recordings have been curated with the chiefs and the communities.

Nēvēnek is music grounded in place, while also presenting a sense of how the people of Torba see themselves as situated in a contemporary world; indeed the recordings here connect Banks Islanders to Queensland through the Pacific Island slave-trade on the late 19th century, to the first arrival and acceptance of traders and missionaries, to the global process of decolonisation and nation-forming in the late 20th century.

Nēvēnek is a compendium of an oral history that is alive and evolving.

Recorded at:
Dolag village, Gaua
Leserpla Village, Ureparapara
Totolag village, Mota Lava

Torba Province, Vanuatu, May 2018

credits

released September 30, 2019

Recorded by Andrew Robinson
Mixed & Mastered by Andrew Robinson at ToRurua Studios, Melbourne. Produced by David Bridie & Sandy Sur
Photography - Nicky Kuautonga, David Bridie, Melinda Lucas
Album design - Rosa Coyle-Hayward

Music Directors
Gaua - Chief Willie Plasua, John Star
Ureparapara - Chief Nicholson Dini, Chief David Rosco.
Mota Lava - Chief Kenken Fraser, Chief Dickinson Levi, Chief Pascale Levi, Edgar Howard

Further explanations - Thomas Dick, Monika Stern

Thank you Amy Chapman, Denis Crowdy, Ralph Reganvanu, Nicky Kuautonga, Thomas Dick, Monika Stern, Denis Crowdy, David Nalo, John Star, Nicky, Viviane, Ladonna, Delly, David, Gina, Nicole, Roslyn, Miranda.

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