What do you know, this week’s album comes from myself 
For week 4 we will be listening to: Gurrumul - Djarimirri (Child Of The Rainbow)
I mainly suggested this because despite the fact that Gurrumul was the most popular indigenous Australian musician ever at the time, I think its unlikely anyone here would have heard it, or anything much like it.
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu was born blind and generally followed a local Yolŋu custom of only speaking through music; in which he had a long career including as a member of the well-known supergroup Yothu Yindi before his solo recordings.
Djarimirri (Child Of The Rainbow) was his last record. It was four years in the making, and was completed and released by his long-term collaborators shortly after he passed on in 2017.
It is an entirely unique combination, primarily in the Yolŋu music tradition practised continuously for tens of thousands of years, arranged as and accentuated with classical-styled chamber music.
While the lyrics are not in English, the subtitles in the song names begin to give a sense of what the music is about, an oral history heavily anchored in the harmonious relationship of the culture of the artist with the natural environment.
That is about all the insight I personally can give on this. This is ‘Australian’ music in the truest sense, coming from a small island off the Northern edge of central Australia, very very far from me, anywhere I have ever been, or where King Gizzard and the Lizard or Tame Impala come from. In fact if King Gizz are New York and Tame Impala are San Francisco (separated by thousands of miles of desert of course), then this is from a tiny island in the Gulf of Mexico with a population of 2000 (0.05% white) where only 5% of people speak English at home, and it is very special.
I’ll be away from home this weekend and absent here, but I will be having an experience with this incredible album and I hope you do too.