#shellie morris

[piruetacompleta]

" Has llegado tan impuntualmente a mi vida, que he decidido mover todos los relojes hacia tu posibilidad."

Leonardo Padrón

[closetospectacular]

Black (Armband) Music

This morning, while channel-surfing my way through endless rolling broadcasts of the Anzac Day centenary, I found myself on the National Indigenous Television network.

By virtue of its very existence, NITV probably provides the best tonic to the nationalistic chest-beating and nostalgic imperial frippery of the Gallipoli broadcasts. You may have heard that Anzac Day wasn’t the first territorial war that Australians were involved in, rite? 

So in this spirit of sour colonial grapes and anti-Kochie resentment, I was delighted to catch a broadcast of a recent festival set by the legendary Coloured Stone.

Forming in South Australia in the late 1970s, Bunna Laurie’s band grew to be a crucial part of the wave of great Aboriginal Australian bands to rise to national prominence in the 1980s. 

Dick Diver recently reminded us of just how good Laurie’s songs are, covering ‘Lonely Life’ on their New Name Blues 7″, which they put out on Fruits & Flowers in 2014.

And as the above video shows, Coloured Stone have still got it. To me, 'Waiting for the Tide’ is middle-aged music: it’s a tough and haggard song, wistful and world-weary, passionate yet thoughtful. 

I guess it’s a song from a band that have seen a lot. It’s an emblem of the kind of reflective anti-Australiana that Gareth Liddiard and Paul Kelly strive so hard to convey. 

Much has been written of the way that the music of those ‘80s bands — who fostered a kind of essential Australianness that rebuked exclusionary nationalism and the cultural cringe alike — took stock of the sprawling girth, oldness and diversity of our landscape through rock ‘n’ roll. The Triffids conjured that feeling at their very best, but Coloured Stone pull it off with ease.

So let ‘Waiting for the Tide’ serve as an introduction to the considerable back catalogue of this important band, and as the catch-cry for a more reflective Anzac Day.

PS. While we’re talking great Aboriginal music, everyone should listen to 'Swept Away,’ by legendary folksinger Shellie Morris. That chorus. Goddamn.

//Henry

[folkingitup]

Shellie Morris - Swept Away

[heathermagazine]

Women win handsomely at NIMA awards

Women win handsomely at NIMA awards

The recent National Indigenous Music Awards showcased a wealth of talent, with female artists being remarkably well represented. Indie-roots singer Thelma Plum took home New Talent of the Year award, adding to her blossoming career record, including supporting Emma Louise in her recent album...

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[byronbaymusic]

Congrats @shelliemorris on the ARIA nomination. Looking forward to hearing your incredible voice at Boomerang Festival this weekend.

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[i-wish-i-had-gills]

Shellie Morris & the Borroloola Songwomen with the Gondwana National Indigenous Children's Choir performing Waliwaliyangu li-Anthawirriyarra a-Kurija - Saltwater People Song

[justdada]

I love this Shellie Morris´s song