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Various Artists - Underneath The Water Tower

from Wantok Musik Vol. 3 by Wantok Musik

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Location: West Papua
From the album "We Have Come To Testify"

‘We Have Come To Testify – There Is Much We Want The World To Know’ is an incredible collection of stories and music centred around 1998 Byak Massacre in West Papua.

This project encompasses a music/documentary recording and an illustrated book which tells the stories from the survivors and witnesses of the 1998 Byak Massacre in West Papua.

In July 1998, when unarmed West Papuans protested for the independence of their nations, they were tortured and killed by Indonesian security forces. Many more were detained and continued to be tortured in custody after the event.

The perpetrators of this violence were never held to account and in 2013 a Citizens Tribunal was held to hear the stories and testimonies from the survivors and witnesses of this horrific event.

Real passages from these testimonies are combined with songs produced by David Bridie and performed by artists from across West Papua and their Pacific neighbours, including Radical Son (Kamilaroi/Tonga), Tio Bang (Vanuatu), Ronny Kareni (West Papua), Sixta Mambour (West Papua), Ferry Marisan (West Papua), Marcel Meltherorong (New Caledonia/Vanuatu), Eyuser Stringband and Mama Tineke (West Papua).

The project aims to give voice to these stories and share the events and plight of the West Papuan people with a wider audience.

With the recent and premature passing of Ferry Marisan, a West Papuan civil rights activist and musician (who contributed heavily to this project), and investigator into the human rights abuses in his homeland of Byak, we embrace this release as a legacy to his life dedicated to a free West Papua.

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from Wantok Musik Vol. 3, released May 20, 2022
Testimony retold by Marcel Melthérorong
David Leha - vocals

Ferry Marisan - guitars, tifa (drum)
Tio Bang - guitars, kalimba, tifa, aiberok (bass)
Manuel Kubiari - ukelele

Hendrik Baransano - aiberok, tifa, guitar
Marcel Melthérorong - flutes, mambu, kalimba
David Bridie - piano, keyboards sounds.
Emmanuel Hakalitz - Drums

Phil Wales - guitar noises
John Phillips - guitar noises

Songwriters - Tio Bang, Marcel Meltherorong, David Leha & David Bridie

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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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