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lyrics
Rekindled Systems - Allara
Strong connections with these ancient lands
Descending bloodlines for centuries
mussels, fish, birds, berries, yams
Our people used to feast
Cooking in old ovens under great trees
Who’ve watched out life cycles custodial in style
On the Dhungala river bank, crystal clear, clean free…
From carp, that muddy bastard
He was never invited
Surveyors marking acres and acres
Missionaries and Jesus with religious take over
Crown sort of saying
This land is free for the taking so take it, but first…
He needs is irrigations systems and the mass scare
Of the blacks here, assimilation schemes
Devised to divide and dismantle our Songline
While our forefathers died on frontier lines
We are survivors, thanks to our Ancestors
Reviving our Songlines, with fingers in the dirt
To decipher tribal incantation from files taken
To record a ‘dying race’ within an archive,
Of a thousand last ‘Kings’
A natives true trepidation, all the while
I wear my soul on my sleeve
Peace, when they wonder ‘bout my colour, tell them
Listen with your ears it's under my skin
And listen with your heart’s, I’m not here on a whim
It’s flowing through my arteries from my crown to my feet
In connection with country
I’m seeing faces, in the leaves of the trees
From the scars on my soul, to the hope on repeat
From my toes in the mud to the tears my eyes weep.
We are survivors, thanks to our Ancestors
Reviving our songlines, with fingers in the dirt
We are survivors, we are our Ancestors
We’re dancing out Songlines, with spiritual self-worth.
Spiritual self-worth.
Together, with Mother Earth we stand
Always was always will be, Aboriginal land
In the past, the present, in the future
Let's put our heads down and enjoy some humor
Let's work hard to protect our mother
Let's work hard to practice our culture
Let's work hard for what's most important,
Dhorma nyini yalka’s distant future.
That’s it.
credits
released December 3, 2020
Produced by Ariel Blum
Mixed by Russell Fawcus
Mastered by Joe LaPorta
Artwork by Giulia Giannini McGauran
Allara is a powerful Yorta Yorta winyarr. She is a storyteller, composer, director, producer, musician and soundscape
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Proceeds from this hauntingly beautiful dark folk LP will be donated to Plataforma de Apoio aos Refugiados, for Portuguese refugee support. Bandcamp New & Notable May 16, 2021
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Forget the rat race of "originality", you'll find plenty of difference and exuberance in this old music. Texture, inflection, timbre, tonal range, rhythm, everything is here to be discovered anew and appreciated as music before originality was anyone's concern. Listen to this album on headphones, the recording is superb. Cosmographer