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A yarn with YIRRAMBOI Blak Critic Bryan Andy
A yarn with YIRRAMBOI Blak Critic Bryan Andy (originally published on the Yirramboi Facebook page) Who your mob? Where you from? I’m a Yorta Yorta man, born on Boonwurrung country and raised largely at Cummeragunja on the Murray River, my Mother’s country. Going back, my Grandmother is Wiradjuri (central NSW), and my Grandfather’s Mother was Wemba Wemba (south NSW). If I had a decent singing ...
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0Pitch Me: advice from editors at the Feminist Writers’ Festival
On Friday I went to a Feminist Writers’ Festival panel called Pitch Me. It was billed as: There’s been a surge in online publishing about feminism and gender in the past five years. Meet some of the editors behind it and find out about the publishing choices they make, what they are trying to do differently, and maybe even how you can pitch to them! The ...
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0Ela Stiles and Jensen Tjhung – Golden Scapel
Ela Stiles and Jensen Tjhung – Golden Scapel With a bubbling pot of active projects, this collaboration between Jensen Tjhung (Lower Plenty, Deaf Wish) and Ela Stiles (Songs, Bushwalking, solo) was released with zero ado. Which suits it, completely. Channelling the loose-limbed intensity of Moonpix-era Cat Power, its nine songs were slow-cooked between Sydney beach trips and late nights foolin’ around on an eight track ...
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0Liars – TFCF
When word came that Angus Andrew (who is Australian) of the US-based three-piece Liars was holed up in the bush north of Sydney writing a solo album, people in the know got excited. Each of Liars’ seven art-rock records, released over 15 years, had been a chilling thrill. What would the band’s core moving part cook up on his Jack Jones in the jungle? Andrew rides out ...
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0Four days at Øyafestivalen, Norway
In August I went to Scandinavia for the first time. I was a guest of Music Norway as part of its international delegate program, showcasing Øyafestivalen. Øya was started in 1999 by four Oslo residents who ran venues or were involved in Norwegian music. One founder, Claes Olsen, says it started small, with Norwegian acts, on an island (Øya is Norwegian for island). It grew into the ...
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0The island advantage
Earth tumbles from the small, slim carrot that chef and farmer Rodney Dunn has just pulled from the ground. He rinses it and hands it over. It’s sweet and crisp; the best carrot I’ve had. “Why did it taste so good?” I ask. “It’s eating it straight after it was picked,” Dunn says. “When carrots get stored, the green tops utilise the sugar in the ...
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0Wolfgang Voigt (Gas) – Gas Box
By gestational week 24, a foetus can turn its head in response to sound outside the womb. Filtered through skin, fat and fluid, if its mother were listening to loud minimal techno the baby might hear something like Wolfgang Voigt’s Gas. Amid the amniotic whoosh and murmur, the music’s thuds would imposter as the thumps of her heart; verifiable, because Gas’s beats can pass for ...
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