An Indigenous Campaign Soundtrack

By Adam Valvasori - Values Manager






















Exciting news today! Our ANTaR Respect [for Indigenous Australians] campaign next month will feature a super cool Kev Carmody driven soundtrack - yay!

It's a really appropriate choice of music too because each of his songs are like little activist campaigns in their own right for mutual respect and rights of first Australians. I'm sure it will help bring our in-store activism alive. It's also really rewarding to continue to push some creative boundaries with our campaigns.

According to Amazon's blurb on the CD:
Kev Carmody is not only one of the most respected singer/songwriters in the country, but also one of Aboriginal Australia's most visible ambassadors. This release will be packaged as a 2-disc album, the first disc featuring some of Australia's finest singers/songwriters paying tribute to the highly respected & admired Kev Carmody, and the second containing Carmody's original versions. The high calibre of artists featured - Bernard Fanning, The Herd, Tex Perkins, The Waifs, Missy Higgins, Augie March, Clare Bowditch, The John Butler Trio and many more) is testament to the level of respect shared amongst the Australian musical community, and also the impact that Kev has had on Australian music. The album was put together & recorded throughout 2006 by Paul Kelly, who describes Kev Carmody's body of work as one of our "great cultural treasures, incorporating oral history, the ongoing hurt of dispossession and the healing power of nature...influential and highly regarded in all corners of the country"

I've been listening to the CD all day, it sounds ace! I think Kev's originals definitely still stand up, however there are some very amazing interpretations / covers too. My favourite so far is the Waif's version of 'From Little Things Big Things Grow'. If you'd like to hear it you can buy it at all good record stores or online here. Alternatively, you could stand in our store for 2.3 hours and listen to it, but let's face it that's creepy and weird.

Another innovation of the Respect Campaign will be a special ANTaR t-shirt that staff are buying with their own money and wearing during the campaign to show their support. Here's a sneak peak, more later.

I'll leave you with the video of Kev Carmody, John Butler and Paul Kelly singing 'From Little Things Big Things Grow' at the Make Poverty History concert from a couple of years back. I was there and loved it when he said: "My t-shirt says: Make INDIGENOUS Poverty History!"

Enjoy: