Second sight (fwd link)

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Second sight

Nicolas Rothwell explores the extraordinary, mysterious world of Geoffrey
Gurrumul Yunupingu's bridge-building music | January 31, 2009
Article from:  The Australian

A YEAR ago this week, at the ramshackle premises of Skinnyfish Music in Darwin,
the tension and excitement were high. The launch date was looming for the first
solo album by an unusual performer: Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, an Aboriginal
musician, born blind, from Elcho Island in northeast Arnhem Land.

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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24970270-5013575,00.html

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ILAT note: If you have not heard Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu's music, you should
do everything humanly possible to hear it.  *****



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