New Album Releases: THE MAKARRATA PROJECT (Midnight Oil) - Rock

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Artist:
Midnight Oil

Genre:
Rock

Total Time:
33:31

Record Label:
Sony Music Entertainment

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Vinyl, iTunes

Release Date
October 30, 2020



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Product Description: The Makarrata Project is a themed mini-album of collaborations with Indigenous artists. Midnight Oil will donate it's share of any proceeds it receives from this release to organizations which seek to elevate The Uluru Statement From The Heart in particular and Indigenous reconciliation more broadly. After centuries of struggle for recognition and justice, 2017's Uluru Statement called for the establishment of a 'First Nations Voice' enshrined in the Australian Constitution and the establishment of a 'Makarrata Commission' to supervise agreement-making and truth-telling between governments and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Clearly this mini-album has ended up being timely in ways nobody could have anticipated as the Black Lives Matter movement surges globally and renews local focus on Aboriginal deaths in custody. However, The Makarrata Project was actually recorded late last year after the band regrouped for a European tour. They entered the studio with about twenty songs of which seven revolved around themes of reconciliation so they decided to record that batch of material separately with a wide range of Indigenous collaborators (the rest of the new recordings are slated for a 2021 release).

TRACK LIST:

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1 . First Nation (4:51)

2 . Gadigal Land (4:45)

3 . Change the Date (5:58)

4 . Terror Australia (3:49)

5 . Desert Man, Desert Woman (3:09)

6 . Wind In My Head (Makarrata Version) (4:19)

7 . Uluru Statement from the Heart / Come On Down (6:40)

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