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a Bit na Ta

by A Bit Na Ta

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    a Bit na Ta - music from the audio and visual installation. Comes in gatefold DVD case with beautifully detailed 20 page artwork booklet.

    Artwork by Created by South. Photos by Gideon Kakabin and David Bridie.

    Includes unlimited streaming of a Bit na Ta via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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a Bit na Ta 01:14
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Black Lotu 03:11
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Tatabai 01:34 video
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Jack Emanuel 04:44
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Apinpidik 02:03
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Toto Ok 01:59
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Tutupele 01:26
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Gadin Kaikai 02:56
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Boro 03:38
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Iau Nunuk 03:00
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Tawalonglong 02:28
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Akuka 03:09
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Guria Beats 02:15
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Tokaminiel 01:23
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Bitapaka 02:38
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Oaga Na Pipi 02:00
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Wali 02:19

about

a Bit na Ta is a project located in ples (place): Rabaul, East New Britain, PNG. Specially commissioned for the exhibition No 1 Neighbour: Art in Papua New Guinea 1966-2016 at the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, the project engages with the enormous changes that have washed over the century 1875-1975 from the perspective of the Tolai peoples who inhabit the lands surrounding it. Central to the Tolai community’s capacity to survive the disruptions of shifting colonial powers, war, volcanic eruptions and independence struggles, marking this period was the strength and importance of their Tubuan society. Perhaps best known to the uninitiated through the iconic birdlike Dukduk and Tubuans, the highly secretive and complex Tubuan society continues to play a significant role in Tolai spiritual and everyday life; its edicts governing relationships to land, resources and people (ancestral and present).

Music is also essential to Tolai life and ceremony and the a Bit na Ta story is presented via new recordings of Singsing Tumbuna (ceremonial song), String band, Lotu church choir style and Contemporary soundscapes supported with archival, cultural and landscape film. Extending on a thirty year collaboration, celebrated Tolai musician George Telek and Australian musician, composer and producer David Bridie have drawn around them friends and family as well as those of Tolai historian and cultural artist Gideon Kakabin, to tell the a Bit na Ta story. This story is as intricate and rich as the Tubuan society, landscape, history, and people that inspires it.

Accompanying the installation will be a CD release featuring a rich interweave of stringband, choirs, atmospheric soundscapes and contemporary PNG sounds that are central to the a Bit na Ta story. A natural extension of Not Drowning, Waving’s seminal 1990 release Tabaran, the CD touches upon the decades-long artistic relationship between David Bridie and George Telek, whilst featuring both established artists and rising stars of Melanesian music, including Anslom, Gilnata and Amidal stringbands, Pius Wasi (Sanguma, Tambaran Culure), and John Phillips (Not Drowning, Waving).

a Bit Na Ta is supported by the Australian Government through the Australian Cultural Diplomacy Grants Program of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

credits

released October 11, 2016

Produced by David Bridie
Mixed by Simon Polinski and Nao Anzai
Additional Mixing Andy Robinson
A Bit na Ta surround soundscape by Nao Anzai
Recorded by David Bridie at Vunaulul Studio and on location in Rabaul, PNG, April/May 2016 and at Haus Bilas Studios, Melbourne
Assistant sound engineer Garett Low (Rabaul)
Additional locations recordings by Gideon Kakabin and Adrian Schultze

Additional musicians: John Phillips (bilas guitar), Helen Mountfort (cello), Phil Wales (bilas guitar), Paul Cartright (bass and guitar), Ben Hakalitz (kundus and garamut), Pius Wasi (mambu), Hope Csutoros (violin), Glen Low (bass guitar), Garret Low (bass guitar), ToRavien (Garamut), Donald Lessy (guitar), Felix Sammy (tutupele, guitar) Rangrang Oscar (ukulele) Adalita, Eden Mulholland, ToUgus (quaks)

CD design Simon Telfer @ Created By South

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