While the Indonesian army continues to dominate the indigenous inhabitants of West Papua, three friends gather in Melbourne to record outlawed folk songs with renowned Australian rock musicologist David Bridie.
Donny Roem is a recent exile. With his two young brothers and 42 other refugees, he crossed the Arafura Sea to Australia in a homemade canoe.
Jacob Rumbiak was a child soldier in the West Papuan resistance movement. His moving story is one of oppression, torture and escape.
Charlie Hill-Smith, an Australian writer, cartoonist and comedian, is their friend. His passion for contact across cultures has led him to forge close friendships with the Melanesians and the Javanese families he met as a teenage exchange student. Afloat in an extraordinary musical tradition from the West Papuan highlands, hearing stories of escape, oppression and exile from Jacob and Donny, listening to the defiant songs of murdered musician and independence hero Arnold Ap, Charlie confronts a basic question: how could these two vibrant cultures be at war and how can the rest of the world seemingly not care?
Bronze Bundle: Black Wantok T-shirt + Frank Yamma 'Uncle'
$50 AUD
5 Pack Disc Bundle
$75 AUD
Silver Bundle: Black Wantok T-shirt + 2 Albums
$65 AUD
Silver Bundle: Blue Wantok T-shirt + 2 Albums
$65 AUD
Gold Bundle: Black Wantok T-shirt + 3 Albums
$75 AUD
Gold Bundle: Blue Wantok T-shirt + 3 Albums
$75 AUD
Bronze Bundle: Blue Wantok T-shirt + Frank Yamma 'Uncle'
$50 AUD
Wantok Blue T-shirt
$35 AUD
Wantok Black T-Shirt
$35 AUD
Ol Sing Blong Plantesen - Plantation Songs hardcover book
$20 AUD
Kambek (I Lilikun Mulai) –
Compact Disc (CD)
Telek
$20 AUD
Circling Time –
Circling Time - 12" Vinyl
Kutcha Edwards
$40 AUD
Circling Time –
Circling Time - Compact Disc
Kutcha Edwards
$25 AUD
Sorousian –
Matte Finish Digipack
Tio
$20 AUD
Tjukurpa: The Story –
Limited Edition 12" Vinyl
Frank Yamma
$40 AUD
Nēvēnek: Ground Music from Torba Province, Vanuatu –
CD with booklet
Musicians of Torba Province, Vanuatu
$25 AUD
We Have Come To Testify –
We Have Come To Testify illustrated book + CD
Various Artists
Sold Out
Taoba –
Compact Disc
Kaumaakonga
$20 AUD
Strange Birds in Paradise: Soundtrack – Strange Birds in Paradise: Soundtrack
$20 AUD
West Papua - Follow the Morning Star
Sold Out
Milyakburra –
Compact Disc
Emily Wurramara
Sold Out
Vanuatu Women's Water Music DVD
Vanuatu Women's Water Music
$25 AUD
Tabaran –
Not Drowning, Waving - Tabaran 2 Disc CD
Not Drowning, Waving and the Musicians of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea ft Telek
$30 AUD
Through The One Last Door –
Not Drowning, Waving 2 Disc CD
Not Drowing, Waving
$30 AUD
Struggle –
Struggle Compact Disc
Black Rock Band
$20 AUD
Maubere Timor –
Maubere Timor Compact Disc
Maubere Timor
$20 AUD
Black Smoke –
Compact Disc
Emily Wurramara
Sold Out
Motomse –
Compact Disc
Sambra Aikit
$10 AUD
Nganyerre –
Limited Edition Compact Disc
JABULA!
$10 AUD
Are'Are' –
Compact Disc
Charles Maimarosia
$15 AUD
a Bit na Ta –
Compact Disc
A Bit Na Ta
$25 AUD
Tio EP –
CD
Tio
$10 AUD
Wantok Musik Australia
Wantok Musik aims to generate and foster various cultural exchanges between Australia and our neighbours throughout Oceania by establishing a leading, not-for-profit Music Label representing First Nations and World Music groups of this unique region.
