Music

The Blacksmith

Ub Ubbo Exchange

Based on the 2013 Banjo Paterson Writing Competition award-winning poem, this song recounts the life of a blacksmith in Parkes, NSW. It tells of a hard life, richly lived. The music provides the accompaniment to the spoken words of the poem and includes many sounds of the tools, including the anvil strike, recorded at the blacksmith’s forge.

Guyang Giiny (Fire Heart)

Instrumental

Released for Mother Tongue Day 2020 at the Parkes Shire Library NSW Australia.

undercurrents

feat. Parkes Community Choir

From the first drops of rain, hungered for in a drought, to the trickles of a creek and the flow of a river until the great surges of the ocean, undercurrents charts those thoughts, feelings and tensions that swim just beneath the surface of all our lives. Melody fragments, woven into the music, are performed by the Parkes Community Choir. The group was formed as part of the Drought Response Initiative to support the community through the current devastating drought.

Millennia WanderinG (Alternate Version)

Feat. Sean Lea & Alex Gunn

Inspired by a poem, Millennia Wandering seeks to explore the wonder of our existence, asking those enduring questions about our creation in time and place. Actual recordings of pulsars and other space sounds captured by the CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope and NASA, have been threaded throughout the music.

Millennia Wandering

Ub Ubbo Exchange

Inspired by a poem, Millennia Wandering seeks to explore the wonder of our existence, asking those enduring questions about our creation in time and place. Actual recordings of pulsars and other space sounds captured by the CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope and NASA, have been threaded throughout the music.

The Meaning of Echoes

Alex Tumapang

Alex Tumapang explains the lyrics and meaning behind the song "Echoes"

Echoes (original version)

Cordillera Fusion Collective

Emanating from the mountain province in the Phillipines, this song was the result of a collaboration between Ub Ubbo Exchange and the Cordillera Fusion Collective. It was developed using sounds captured in the field and recordings of traditional instruments. It features traditional melodies with lyrics written by students from the Sagada High School, to send a message of unity and cultural resilience for all indigenous people in the Cordilleras.

Echoes

Sunfield Records Arrangement

Emanating from the mountain province in the Phillipines, this song was the result of a collaboration between Ub Ubbo Exchange and the Cordillera Fusion Collective. It was developed using sounds captured in the field and recordings of traditional instruments. It features traditional melodies with lyrics written by students from the Sagada High School, to send a message of unity and cultural resilience for all indigenous people in the Cordilleras.

I am My Elders' Blood

Feat. Parkes Wiradjuri Language Group