''Garma'' is the sixth and final studio album by Australian band,
Yothu Yindi
Yothu Yindi ( Yolngu for "child and mother", pronounced ) are an Australian musical group with Aboriginal and '' balanda'' (non-Aboriginal) members, formed in 1986 as a merger of two bands formed in 1985 – a white rock group called the Swam ...
that was released in August 2000 via
Mushroom Records. The album peaked at number 66 on the ARIA Charts.
Track listing
# "Macassan Crew" (Mandawuy Yunupingu, Stuart Kellaway, Jodie Cockatoo Creed, Andrew Farriss)
# "Fire" (Mandawuy Yunupingu, Kellaway, Cockatoo Creed, Farriss)
# "Surfin' The Log" (Mandawuy Yunupingu, Kellaway, Cockatoo Creed, Farriss)
# "Community Life" (Mandawuy Yunupingu, Kellaway, Cockatoo Creed, Farriss)
# "Bush" (Mandawuy Yunupingu, Farriss)
# "Ghost Spirits" (Kellaway, Makuma Yunupingu, Mandawuy Yunupingu, Lamar Lowder)
# "Romance at Garma" (Mandawuy Yunupingu, Kellaway, Cockatoo Creed, Farriss)
# "Good Medicine" (Cockatoo Creed, Farriss)
# "Calling Every Nation" (Mandawuy Yunupingu, Cockatoo Creed, Farriss)
# "Wirrkul Girl" (Mandawuy Yunupingu, Farriss)
# "Lonely Tree" (Mandawuy Yunupingu, Kellaway, Cockatoo Creed, Farriss)
# "Gone Is The Land" (Mandawuy Yunupingu, Gurrumul Yunupingu, Farriss)
# "Silver Owl" (Mandawuy Yunupingu, Kellaway)
# "Gawulny (Silver Light)" (Traditional song, arranged by Mandawuy Yunupingu)
Personnel
*
Mandawuy Yunupingu
Mandawuy Djarrtjuntjun Yunupingu , formerly Tom Djambayang Bakamana Yunupingu; skin name Gudjuk; also known as Dr Yunupingu (17 September 1956 – 2 June 2013) was an Australian musician and educator.
An Aboriginal, in 1989 he became assista ...
– lead and backing vocals, clapsticks
* Jodie Cockatoo Creed – lead and backing bocals
* Makuma Yunupingu – lead vocals
* Rrawun Maymuru – backing vocals, didgeridoo, clapsticks
* Gapanbulu Yunupingu Mununggurr – didgeridoo
* Yomunu Yunupingu – didgeridoo
* Stuart Kellaway – clapsticks, bass, guitars, backing vocals
* Cal Williams – electric/acoustic guitars
*
Gurrumul Yunupingu
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu (22 January 1971 – 25 July 2017), commonly known as Gurrumul and also referred to since his death as Dr G. Yunupingu, was an Aboriginal Australian musician of the Yolŋu peoples. A multi-instrumentalist, he played ...
– electric/acoustic guitars
* Ben Hakalitz – drums
* Scott Saunders – keyboards
*
Andrew Farriss
Andrew Charles Farriss (born 27 March 1959) is an Australian rock musician and multi-instrumentalist best known as the keyboardist, backing vocalist, and main composer for rock band INXS. Farriss released his debut studio album in 2021.
Caree ...
– keyboards, guitars, bass, harmonica
* Joe Accaria – drums
* Nick Cicere – drums
* Anja Tait – violin
* Michele Rose – pedal steel
* Mark Williams – backing vocals
* Tina Harrod – backing vocals
Charts
Release history
References
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Yothu Yindi albums
Mushroom Records albums
2000 albums