To celebrate their induction into the ARIA Hall of Fame, Yothu Yindi have released a career-spanning retrospective entitled Healing Stone which includes the full-length doco Tribal Voice.
The band took indigenous Australia to the world with their international hits Treaty and Djapana and also introduced Australia’s first culture to a large amount of city-dwelling kids – myself included – who had otherwise been sheltered from their own country.
The band worked with Paul Kelly, Midnight Oil, INXS and Neil Finn to name a few and all of those collaborations appear on this compilation. If you get the physical copy, you’ll also get all the videos as well.
So what songs made the cut? The track listing is:
1. Treaty (Radio Edit)
2. Djapana (Radio Edit)
3. Tribal Voice
4. Mainstream
5. Timeless Land
6. Macassan Crew
7. Djatpa
8. Yirrmala
9. One Blood
10. Baywara
11. Dots on the Shells
12. Maralitja
13. World Turning
14. Superhighway
15. Tears for Law (Garrathiya Run)
16. Yolngu Boy
17. Healing Stone
You can get a copy of the record on iTunes, or if you want the fancy physical version with all the video footage, get thee to a record store!
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Want more? Here’s a little EPK the folks at Liberation have put together featuring interviews with Mandawuy Yunupingu, live footage and footage of their homeland.
