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Dolap Water Music - Freshwater Spring Bubbling

from Wantok Musik Vol. 3 by Wantok Musik

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Location: Dolap village, Torba Province, Vanuatu
From the album 'Nēvēnek: Ground Music from Torba Province, Vanuatu'

Recorded at Dolap village, Gaua and is sung in Mwerlap tok ples.
The women stand in a semi circle in the ocean or shallow water
places and drum the water with their hands. They mimic the sound of seawater spouting out through rock gaps or of waterfalls. Water music sounds are created by adopting sounds from nature.

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About the album:

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

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from Wantok Musik Vol. 3, released May 20, 2022
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

Listen / Buy full release here: wantokmusik.bandcamp.com/album/n-v-nek-ground-music-from-torba-province-vanuatu

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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.

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