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Sing the Song - the essential Neil Murray [2011]
Press release
CD ONE:
1. Long Grass Band
2. Over the Moon
3. Good Light in Broome
4. Tjapwurrung Country
5. You'll Have To Follow
6. Burrumbeep Hill
7. Burning Land
8. Lights of Hay
9. Eddie Mabo
10. Native Born
11. I Can Go On
12. My Island Home (Live)
13. Big Truck
14. These Hands
15. Spirit
16. Sing the Song (Live) |
CD TWO:
1. Calm & Crystal Clear
2. Where My People Go
3. Broken Song
4. Bulukbara Man
5. In My Heart
6. Myall Creek
7. Melbourne Town
8. Sing Your Destiny
9. Cleverman
10. Tom Wills Would
11. This Good Earth
12. Circumstances
13. Far Away
14. High On A Hill
15. Meet Me In Bedourie
16. Anywhere Tonight |
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"At a basic level, everything
I write
is a result of what
I’ve seen, heard
and felt.
I aim to be clear. I aim to
be accurate. The songs are
my
testimony." |
Long time friend and founding Midnight Oil member Jim Moginie was enlisted to help produce
Witness:
“I respect Jim’s judgement. He’s played on a lot of my records now and it was just
easy. He had a studio and we just picked out the songs and went for it. A bonus
was “One of those tunes” – our first co-write. It taps the dilemma of
trying to remain true to one’s self yet still give audiences what they want."
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OVERNIGHTER [2007]
1.
With You Tonight
2. I Can Go On
3. Lights of Hay
4. Drifting Ways
5. Once in a While
6. You'll Have to Follow |
7.
Meet Me in Bedourie
8. Key to my Heart
9. The Streets of Bourke
10. Where my People go
11. Get Back to the Country
12. Sing the Song |
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Available at Neil Murray performances or by contacting Island Home Music,
P.O Box 66,
Lake Bolac
VIC 3351 AUS.
Cost: $25.00 incl. postage and handling
* please make Cheque payable to
Island Home Music
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SPOKEN [2007]
Features 27 tracks of spoken word readings written and recorded
by Neil Murray. "Warning - This album contains no music"
1. Unmarked Graves
2. For the Bulukbara
3. Puunyart Dreaming
4. Toyota Dreaming
5. Language of Eyes
6. Work
7. The Grog Heroes
8. Puck All
9. Tougher Than The Rest
10. Waiting for the Call of the Kurrparu
11. Kulata
12. You Can Be a Man
13. Bush People
14. We'll Take the Valiant |
15.
The
Yackandandah Track
16. Windy Mick and The Falcon
17. Great Redeeming Actions
18. The Pontoon Touchdown
19. I Have Then Here
20. That Bad
21. Mourning
22. Draught
23. There Are Men Tonight
24. Contact
25. Contact 2
26. Declaring the
Step-Child
27. Freeman's Gold |
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ABOUT TIME - A Song Collection [2005]
Disc 1: About
Time
1. Cleverman
2. Big Truck
3. Native Born
4. Eddie Mabo
5. Far Away
6. Broken Song
7. Good light in Broome
8. Late this Night
9. Spirit
Disc 2: Live & Rare
1. One More Mile
2. Dear Me
3. Johnny Grey
4. Salty Ground
5. Bulukbara Man
6. Peace of Mind
7. Native Born |
10. Over the Moon
11. Tom Wills Would
12. Ocean of Regret
13. Tjapwurrung Country
14. Calm & Crystal Clear
15. These Hands
16. Circumstances
17. Menindee
18. Myall Creek
8. Holy Road
9. Broken Song
10. Empty House
11. Myall Creek
12. This Time
13. Long Grass Band
14. My Island Home
15. This Bliss |
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The
aim of this release is to present some kind of summary of
my solo career to date, with a few suprises on the bonus 'live
and rare' CD for those familiar with my work. (As such, with the
exception of a live version of My Island Home, songs from the
Warumpi Band catalouge are not included here).
It is not easy to meet the requirements of public and personal interest. The
first being the need to present material that is known or familiar. The latter
being the need to include songs that represent benchmarks in my writing whether
popular or not. In the end, both requirements can never be fully met. "About
Time" is thus, a compromise. It's not the whole story but it's a guide to where
I've been.
I was enchanted by songs. Songs I heard in the air, coming from the
radio. Songs my grandfather sang around an old piano long before the coming of
television. Like many of my generation I was consumed by the music of the 60's
and 70's. Absolutely taken by it. Rock n Roll was an adrenalin-charged clarion
call and I hurled myself into it. I had to sing and play. Nothing else seemed as
vital. and then there was this other sound, coming out of the land.
Like a giant heartbeat in the background, a murmuring, a whispering, a humming
of insects and birds calling, wind sighing in old casurinas, distant thunder,
rain drumming on the plains, the wake and sleep of the seasons. In the end it
was the land that shaped me more and I would seek to capture it in song. |
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GOING THE DISTANCE [2003]
click song for lyrics
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The
11 songs on 'Going the Distance' feature a variety of musicians.
Mathew Earl, Alex Hewetson, Shannon Birchill, Tony Joyce, Rachel
Taylor, Andrew Ford and Tonchi McIntosh all make their first contribution
to a Neil Murray album. For others, such as Stephen (Stretch) Teakle,
Lucy Eames, David Bridie, Clare Brassel, Naomi Radom, and Nick Wales
it is a return engagement. Last but not least, Jim Moginie again
provides valuable musicianship and production assistance. Fans of
Neil Murray will know that Jim has regularly contributed to Neil’s
records (beginning with the Warumpi Band’s Go Bush album)
and it is wonderful to hear that relationship continuing on “Going
the Distance".
As
with 'The Wondering Kind', most of the engineering and mixing for
'Going The Distance' has again been handled by James Cadskey of
Vault recording. Despite some initial recording in other locations,
Neil decided to do the bulk of the recording and all the mixing
in Sydney where he could utilize the support of both Jim and James.
Neil says: “Going the Distance promises something
for everyone. More than any other record I’ve done, this album
seems to mark the way forward”.
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THE WONDERING KIND [2000]
click song for lyrics
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DUST [1996]
click song for lyrics
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THESE HANDS [1993]
click song for lyrics
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CALM & CRYSTAL CLEAR [1989]
1. Calm &
Crystal Clear
2. Horse And Rider
3. Lets Fall In Love Again
(Just For The Hell Of It)
4. Wilderness
5. Clever Man |
6. Ocean Of Regret
7. Shakin
Hand
8. He Was Born
9. Woman's Love
10. One More Mile |
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2 songmen Live in Darwin
Features
11 tracks performed by
Shane Howard and Neil Murray.
1.
Razor's Edge
2. Let The Franklin Flow
3. Over The Moon
4. Flesh & Blood
5. My Island Home
6. Solid Rock |
7.
Good Light in Broome
8. Heart of My Country
9. Long GRass Band
10. Native Born
11. Talk Of The Town |
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Click here for a full list of all Neil Murray's published works
BLACKFELLA WHITEFELLA
One Day Hill Publishing. 2012
Purchase online through Angus & Robertson
MY ISLAND HOME
One Day Hill Publishing. 2010
NATIVE BORN - The Songs of Neil Murray
One Day Hill Publishing. 2009
"Native Born" can also be ordered through the ABC or at ABC shops.
ONE MAN TRIBE: Contains
the favourites... Windy Mick & The Falcon, Toyota Dreaming,
The Fan (Mob of Spunks), Great Redeeming Actions, Language of
Eyes, Puck All, Contact, etc...
ONE MAN TRIBE is no longer availaible
as it is currently out of print
SING FOR ME COUNTRYMAN: The long awaited reprint
is now available.
Available by contacting Island Home Music, P.O Box 66,
Lake Bolac,
Vic 3351, Australia. Cost: $30.00 + $6.00 postage and handling
* please make Cheque payable to
Island Home Music
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The
'Far Away' Cassingle
A COLLECTORS ITEM! - containing the once and only released 'Swagman's Rest'
and the original version of 'Menindee'.
Available
by contacting
Island Home Music,
P.O Box 66,
Lake Bolac,
Vic 3351,
Australia
Cost: $5.00 + $6.00 postage and handling
* please make Cheque payable to
Island Home Music |
Neil Murray's songs are published by Universal Music Publishing.
All enquiries for use should be directed to Universal Music Publishing
by visiting www.umusicpub.com
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Performance And Transmission Rights)
1. Our direct licensing guidelines.
These are the
direct licensing guidelines of Island Home Music Pty Ltd.
At
present we do not have the capacity to directly license any of our
sound recordings or music videos for public performance or
transmission.
Given the legal and administrative costs involved
with direct licensing we are unable to offer direct licences at
competitive rates for public performance or transmission.
We
will review our position every 12 months to consider whether the size
and skill base of our organisation enables us to engage in direct
licensing.
In the meantime, if you require a licence fro the
public performance or transmission of one of our sound recordings or
music videos you should contact the Phonographic Performance Company
of Australia (PPCA) or call (02) 85691111
If you wish to
provide feedback or comments on our direct licensing policy please
email: contact@neilmurray.com.au |
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