Freedom (Yothu Yindi album)
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Freedom is an album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by Yothu Yindi
Yothu Yindi
Yothu Yindi are an Australian band with Aboriginal and balanda members formed in 1986. Aboriginal members come from Yolngu homelands near Yirrkala on the Gove Peninsula in Northern Territory's Arnhem Land...

 released in 1993 under the Mushroom Records
Mushroom Records
Mushroom Records is an Australian recoJrd company formed by Michael Gudinski and Ray Evans in Melbourne in 1972. After its sale in 1998, it merged into Festival Mushroom Records. From 2005 to 2009, it is one of the record labels operated by Warner Bros...

 label.

Reception

Track listing

  1. "Timeless Land" (Mandawuy Yunupingu, Witiyana Marika, Stuart Kellaway, D. Bridie)
  2. "World of Innocence" (M. Yunupingu, Kellaway, Ian Faith)
  3. "Freedom" (M. Yunupingu)
  4. "Baywara" (M. Yunupingu, Kellaway)
  5. "Ngerrk" (Traditional song, arranged by Galarrwuy Yunupingu)
  6. "Back to Culture" (M. Yunupingu, Kellaway, Ian Faith)
  7. "World Turning" (M. Yunupingu, W. Marika, Ian Faith)
  8. "Mabo" (M. Yunupingu, Galarrwuy Yunupingu, Kellaway, Gurrumul Yunupingu)
  9. "Milika" (Traditional song, arranged by W. Marika)
  10. "Danggultji" (Traditional song, arranged by W. Marika, B. Marika)
  11. "Gunitjpirr Man" (M. Yunupingu)
  12. "Yolngu Boy" (M. Yunupingu)
  13. "Dots on the Shells" (M. Yunupingu, Neil Finn)
  14. "Our Generation" (M. Yunupingu, Kellaway, A. Farris)
  15. "Gany'tjurr" (Traditional song, arranged by Galarrwuy Yunupingu)
  16. "Gapu" (Tidal Mix) (Traditional song, arranged by Galarrwuy Yunupingu)

Personnel

  • Mandawuy Yunupingu
    Mandawuy Yunupingu
    Mandawuy Yunupingu , born 17 September 1956, is an Aboriginal Australian musician, most notable for being the front man of the band Yothu Yindi.-Early life:...

    : Vocals, guitar
  • Witiyana Marika: Vocals, clapsticks, dance
  • Makuma Yunupingu: Didgeridoo, vocals, clapsticks
  • Stuart Kellaway: Bass guitar
  • Mangatjay Yunupingu: Dance
  • Banula Marika: Vocals, dance
  • Bunimbirr Marika: Didgeridoo
  • Cal Williams: Guitar
  • Natalie Gillespie: Vocals
  • Galarrwuy Yunupingu
    Galarrwuy Yunupingu
    Galarrwuy YunupinguAM is a leader in the Australian Indigenous community, and has been involved in the fight for Land Rights throughout his career...

    : Vocals, clapsticks
  • Milkayngu Mununggurr: Didgeridoo
  • Gurrumul Yunupingu: Guitar, vocals, keyboards
  • Jodie Cockatoo: Vocals
  • Ian Faith: Guitars
  • Mark Ovenden
    Mark Ovenden
    Mark Ovenden F.R.G.S. is a broadcaster and author who specialises in the subjects of graphic design, cartography and architecture in public transport, with an emphasis on underground rapid transit....

    : Keys, programming
  • Bill Laswell
    Bill Laswell
    Bill Laswell is an American bassist, producer and record label owner....

    : Bass
  • Nicky Skopelitis
    Nicky Skopelitis
    Nicky Skopelitis is an American guitarist and composer from Greek heritage. He is best known as a guitarist, but also performs on banjo, oud, lute, keyboards and other instruments....

    : 6 and 12-string guitar
  • Bernie Worrell
    Bernie Worrell
    George Bernard "Bernie" Worrell, Jr. is an American keyboardist and composer best known as a founding member of Parliament-Funkadelic and for his work with Talking Heads. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic...

    : Organ
  • Terepai Richmond
    Terepai Richmond
    Terepai Chalmers Richmond is an Australian drummer, he joined the Sydney-based rock band The Whitlams in September 1999 and formerly played in acid jazz group Directions in Groove .-Biography:...

    : Drums
  • Daniel Watson
    Daniel Watson
    Daniel Watson was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1659 and 1660. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War....

    : Percussion
  • Allen Murphy
    Allen Murphy
    Allen Murphy is a retired American professional basketball player. Murphy was a 6'4½" 190 lbs guard and at played shooting guard for the University of Louisville Cardinals of whom he was part of their 1975 Final Four team...

    : Drums
  • Andrew Belletty: Drums

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