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Samuel Wagan Watson: Smoke Encrypted Whispers

Southern Cross Soloists & Ron Haddrick

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Format: CD

Cat No: MR301140

Release Date:  28 January 2013

Label:  Melba

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  9314574114027

Genres:  Classical  Poetry  

  • Description

    Smoke Encrypted Whispers is a sequence of 23 poems by the leading Australian indigenous poet Samuel Wagan Watson that pairs the Brisbane-born writer's texts with succinct musical commentaries - part reflection, part response - by 23 of the poet's Brisbanite composer peers.

    What results - in a performance by the musicians of Southern Cross Soloists interspersed with readings of the individual poems by the distinguished Australian actor Ron Haddrick - is a variegated tapestry given cohesion and coherence by the multiple interwoven threads of Watson's words. Smoke Encrypted Whispers presents tales of the poet's own interior dreamtime and depth of feeling to produce a vivid and touching picture of growing up in suburban Brisbane.

    While offering one revealing insight after another into the spirituality of displaced indigenous experience in contemporary urban Australia, Watson's poetry taps into a potent mythology that predates the settled history of the continent - as well alluding to the fears, heartbreaks, hopes and humour that are universal rather than isolated qualities. Through it, we are invited into a magical universe veiled behind the obfuscating layers of our mundane existence.

    The 23 composers are Tom Adeney, Damian Barbeler, William Barton, Betty Beath, Gerard Brophy, Lisa Cheney, Peter Clarke, Stephen Cronin, Robert Davidson, Paul Dean, Louis Denson, John Gilfedder, Ralph Hultgren, Michael Knopf, Stephen Leek, Mary Mageau, Freeman McGrath, Richard Mills, Sean O'Boyle, Peter Rankine, Marianne Scholem, Stephen Stanfield and Toby Wren.

    Personnel: Southern Cross Soloists, Ron Haddrick (narrator)

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Smoke Signals
      • 2. Smoke Signals
      • 3. Tigerland
      • 4. Tigerland
      • 5. Scared of the Dark
      • 6. Scared of the Dark
      • 7. Wecker Road
      • 8. Wecker Road
      • 9. Cribb Island
      • 10. Cribb Island
      • 11. Capalaba
      • 12. Capalaba
      • 13. Rip
      • 14. Rip
      • 15. Smoke Water
      • 16. Smoke Water
      • 17. Author's Notes #1
      • 18. Author's Notes #1
      • 19. Darkroom
      • 20. Darkroom
      • 21. Fisherman Islands
      • 22. Fisherman Islands
      • 23. Paper Trails to Midnight
      • 24. Paper Trails to Midnight
      • 25. Author's Notes #2
      • 26. Author's Notes #2
      • 27. Ghosts of Boundary Street
      • 28. Ghosts of Boundary Street
      • 29. Dog Tired Tune
      • 30. Dog Tired Tune
      • 31. When I Crossed the Ditch
      • 32. When I Crossed the Ditch
      • 33. Author's Notes #3
      • 34. Author's Notes #3
      • 35. The Dust Company
      • 36. The Dust Company
      • 37. From Boundary Street
      • 38. West End to the Berlin Wall
      • 39. East Germany
      • 40. From Boundary Street
      • 41. West End to the Berlin Wall
      • 42. East Germany
      • 43. Snapshots
      • 44. Snapshots
      • 45. Aunty Grey Smoke
      • 46. Aunty Grey Smoke
        • . Author's Notes Conclusion

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