''Live in Darwin, Australia'' is the first

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by Gurrumul. The album was recorded in

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, and includes six tracks lifted from Gurrumul's self-titled debut studio album.

Reception

Mark Hudson from

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said "While the songs on this atmospheric live EP are structured on the lines of Western ballads, his high pitched singing in his

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language has an incantatory intensity that makes for truly haunting listening."

Track listing

CD/DD # "Djilawurr (Orange-Footed Scrub Fowl)" - 4:14 # "Gathu Mawula" - 3:59 # "Djarimirri" - 3:40 # "Marrandil" - 6:58 # "Gurrumul History (I Was Born Blind)" - 6:30 # "Wukun" - 4:48

References

{{Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu 2010 live albums Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu albums