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Senior Eagle Voice Stringband, Rapidik, Rabaul

Layer: Music in Rabaul, Gazelle Peninsula, ENBP and New Guinea Islands Region (ca. 1950s - 1990s)
Link back to source:: https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/MW6/079
Type: Other

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Latitude: -4.222
Longitude: 152.182
Start Date: 1993-08-28
End Date: 1993-08-28

Description

Tape#1: Side A & B - 12 songs Recordings of Matupit Island stringband performing various songs in Kuanua and Solomon Islands languages mostly from composer and musician Ephraim Tami. The songs include; "Matupit, kaugu gunan alalir" - my island Matupit is floating on the sea next to the volcano. "Aumana bul" - our mates gone and have come back. "Matanakunai " - a place where we witnessed the volcanic eruptions (1994). "Waira tam ati" - becoming a stranger after eviction from my home. "IaMagit u waligur iau" - my girlfriend leaving to marry someone else. "Vuvu marmari" - what a cool breeze blowing over the body feeling good. "Iau a waira ati" - I am a stranger in this place. "ToDion, iau mari u" - John, I love and care for you. "Sana rana" - Solomon Islands song from wartime (1946) "Kalou na ki watikai piram" - God be with you always. "Watikai iau nuk u" - I think of you always. "Alir wowowon" - drifting slowly away in canoe while fishing out at sea (Steven Gagau, March 2019)

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Source

https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/MW6/079

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