{"product_id":"waakya-standing-on-smoke-lp","title":"Waakya – Standing On Smoke LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWaakya arose from a desire to bring new life to the oldest continuously practised music tradition in the world; manikay, the ancestral songs of the Yolŋu people of Arnhem Land.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA vivid cross-cultural collaboration, Waakya is ceremonial songman Daniel Wilfred, yidaki (didgeridoo) master David Wilfred \u0026amp; electro-acoustic musicians Martin Ng (turntables\/CDJ-500\/OB-4 speaker), Ben Carey (analog synthesisers), \u0026amp; Matt McGuigan (guitar\/electronics).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe ensemble tangles \u0026amp; coils audacious experimentation around \u0026amp; through mantra-like ceremonial songlines to arrive at a sound world that embodies past, present, \u0026amp; future; reflecting the aboriginal concept of time, the everywhen: the eternal present.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs much as the ideas \u0026amp; the players involved come from traditions of experimentation \u0026amp; improvisation, the intention with this project was always to make ‘songs’, unconventional ones perhaps, but songs.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThese songs speak of beyond-ancient myths (Nuŋgurryu Nuŋgurryu, Standing on Smoke), stories of nature \u0026amp; totems (Guku, Waakya, Pipit) - the importance of which inspired the vinyl side-names of this release: Land, Spirits, Plants, Animals - \u0026amp; also of more personal ideas like homesickness (Jillai) \u0026amp; sharing culture (Titjimbat Yolŋu\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e Balanda).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Waakya is glorious. Absorbing into the floor listening.”\u003cbr\u003e- Michael Kucyk (efficient space)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Often I found myself thinking they were narrating the movements of the earth beneath our feet - slow, rumbling, \u0026amp; viscerally real... Every word Daniel delivered hung over us as if a new star added to the sky.”\u003cbr\u003e- Angus Sharpe (review of show at Art Gallery of NSW)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Waakya","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68060544696565,"sku":"HHLP05260757","price":49.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0756\/1986\/0725\/files\/HHLP05260757_00.jpg?v=1794537647","url":"https:\/\/blacksound.com.au\/products\/waakya-standing-on-smoke-lp","provider":"Blacksound Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}