This week’s PBS Feature Album is Music for Iwuda, the debut release from First Nations bassist Davin Ojala AKA Iwuda.
Music for Iwuda was built in two halves: a run of duo compositions recorded live in single takes at Yill Lull Studio in Canberra, through the First Nations residency program Space to Create, and a set of solo sessions at Echidna Studios where Ojala layered and reshaped every bass part himself.
It's an album about searching - for cultural connection and for a way to represent himself musically. It's there in the sound too: a sparse starting point that grows the way understanding does, unevenly and never quite finished. Named for the Anaiwan word for echidna, the project moves through jazz, groove and a handful of other traditions to land somewhere bass-forward and distinctly its own.
Tune in all this week to hear tracks from Music for Iwuda. PBS Members have the chance to win a digital and cassette copy of the album - simply email your name and membership number to before midnight Sunday August 2.
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TOP TRACKS WE'RE LOVING THIS WEEK
Grace Cummings - 'FAKE'
Rubita - 'Nigel'
Now Always Fades - 'Dummy'
RONA. - 'In Movement'
Martinou - 'Unfold'
Ned Colette - 'Commandeered Parade'
Rainbow Chan - 'Four Blessings'
The HU - 'Echoes of My Father'
C.O.F.F.I.N - 'Think Bad'
Mick Harvey & Amanda Acevedo - 'Song for Aurora'
