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Aboriginal rock Indigenous or Aboriginal rock is a style of music which mixes rock music with the instrumentation and singing styles of Indigenous peoples. Two countries with prominent Aboriginal rock scenes are Australia and Canada. Australia In Australia, A ...
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reggae Reggae () is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. The term also denotes the modern popular music of Jamaica and its diaspora. A 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals, " Do the Reggay" was the first popular song to use ...
band from
Mamadawerre, Northern Territory Mamadawerre is an Aboriginal outstation located in the West Arnhem region of the Northern Territory, Australia. It is located about 307km east of Darwin, on Kunwinjku The Kunwinjku (formerly written Gunwinggu) people are an Australian Ab ...
, a remote outstation in
Arnhem Land Arnhem Land is a historical region of the Northern Territory of Australia, with the term still in use. It is located in the north-eastern corner of the territory and is around from the territory capital, Darwin. In 1623, Dutch East India Compan ...
. They sing mostly in the
Kunwinjku The Kunwinjku (formerly written Gunwinggu) people are an Australian Aboriginal people, one of several groups within the Bininj people, who live around West Arnhem Land to the east of Darwin, Northern Territory. Kunwinjku people generally refer t ...
language and tell traditional stories with lyrics written by mentor Jill Nganjmirra. The band was a Next Crop artist on
Triple J Triple J (stylised in all lowercase) is a government-funded, national Australian Radio in Australia, radio station intended to appeal to listeners of alternative music, which began broadcasting in January 1975. The station also places a greate ...
in 2006.


Discography


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External links


Wildflower MySpace page
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