North Tanami Band
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North Tanami Band are a reggae
/ska
band from Lajamanu, a town located about 600 km to the north of Yuendumu. The members are Warlpiri
and their songs are sung in Warlpiri and English. They were the subjects of the documentary The Traveling Warlpiris (1992).
Reggae
Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...
/ska
Ska
Ska |Jamaican]] ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s, and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues...
band from Lajamanu, a town located about 600 km to the north of Yuendumu. The members are Warlpiri
Warlpiri
The Warlpiri are a group of Indigenous Australians, many of whom speak the Warlpiri language. There are 5,000–6,000 Warlpiri, living mostly in a few towns and settlements scattered through their traditional land in Australia's Northern Territory, north and west of Alice Springs...
and their songs are sung in Warlpiri and English. They were the subjects of the documentary The Traveling Warlpiris (1992).
Discography
Albums- Warlpiri Warlpiri people (1990) - CAAMA Music
- Travelling Warlpiri (1995) - CAAMA Music
- Warlpiri Tribe (2005) - CAAMA Music
- This Land - CAAMA Music
- Land is our Life (2003) - CAAMA Music