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I’m so excited to share something that has been growing quietly behind the scenes for almost 15 years. 

My musical life has taken me on some interesting and often unpredictable journeys. Going where inspiration for new ideas takes me, I’ve followed sound into some unexpected places.

For the past year, Kim and I have been living way out in Lajamanu community in the remote Tanami Desert of Australia, finishing off a big project that I hold very close to my heart. 

‘Crown and Country’ is an album and a film that weaves together music, storytelling and Warlpiri metaphysics. 

At the heart of it are two progressive and forward-thinking Indigenous Warlpiri elders, Wanta Jampijinpa and his father, First Contact elder Jerry Jangala Patrick. We have worked together creatively for over a decade. 

Since my first meeting with Wanta in 2010, I kept returning to Lajamanu, forming a deeper friendship with Wanta and his  dad Jangala, through working on the soundtrack for the award-winning Milpirri Festival with Tracks Dance. 

Then for around the last decade or so, Wanta kept asking me to start on a new project he had been thinking of. Every year we talked more about it and each year the concepts evolved and were refined.

5 years ago, prompted by the looming spectre of Covid, Kim and I made the decision to start working on this new project. We took many trips back out to the desert, recording stories, synthesising concepts, and filming and recording on location.

The result is something we are all very proud of. A full length album and an accompanying film called “Crown and Country”.
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