Our Home, Our Land

Our Home, Our Land is a compilation album released in Australia by CAAMA in 1995. It was released to celebrate the victory in the Mabo case. It focused on the importance of land to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander beliefs.[1] It was nominated for a 1996 ARIA Award for Best Indigenous Release.

Our Home, Our Land
Compilation album
Released1995
LabelCAAMA

The CDs featured a mix of new and established artists. The title track was commissioned for this release. Previously recorded tracks were licensed from well known artist and some new tracks were recorded for this album. The new tracks were winners of a song contest for artist that had not been previously recorded.[2]

The album received positive reviews. Jarrod Watt writing in the Age noted that it was "a pretty decent snapshot of the directions indigenous musicians are taking off to while keeping the traditions of the past."[3] Sunday Age's Larry Schwartz states " It is a rich mix of talent that will delight enthusiasts."[4]

In 2000 an illustrated book by Stephen Lalor called Our home, our land : contemporary Aboriginal music education kit was released as a resource about the cds for secondary schools.

Accolades
YearAwardNominationResult
1996ARIA Music AwardsBest Indigenous Release[5]Nominated

Track listing
  1. Our Home, Our Land – Various
  2. Mabo – Yothu Yindi
  3. Land Rights – Sunrize Band
  4. Forgotten Tribe – Coloured Stone
  5. Kulha Vaday – Christine Anu
  6. Solid Rock – Shane Howard
  7. Respect for Eddie Mabo – Rygela Band
  8. Stricken Land – Blackfire
  9. Angerwuy – Raven
  10. Our Home, Our Land (instrumental)
  11. Nitmiluk – Blekbala Mujik
  12. We Shall Cry – Warumpi Band
  13. This Land's Worth More than Gold and Silver – Phil Moncrieff
  14. Yolngu – Frances Williams
  15. Climbing that mountain – Amunda (with Rachel Perkins)
  16. From Little Things Big Things Grow – Paul Kelly and Kev Carmody with Tiddas
  17. A Little Drop – Minnie Read
  18. Big Mountain Wilpena Pound – Artoowarapana Band
  19. Original Aboriginal – Dave Quinlan
  20. Tjapwurrung country – Neil Murray
  21. Koiki, Father Dave and James – Peter Yanada McKenzie
  22. Mabo – Mills Sisters
  23. Nakkanya – Paul Kelly
  24. Our home, our land (Language version) – Buna Lawrie
Artist appearing on the first track are Lou Bennett, Sally Dastey, Amy Saunders (all from Tiddas), Kev Carmody, Archie Roach, Ruby Hunter, Bart Willoughby, Buna Lawrie, Sammy Butcher, Shane Howard and David Bridie.

References
  1. Dunbar-Hall, Peter; Gibson, Chris (2004). Deadly Sounds, Deadly Places: Contemporary Aboriginal Music in Australia. UNSW Press. ISBN 9780868406220.
  2. Neuenfeldt, Karl; Kathleen, Oien (2000), "'Our home, our land ... something to sing about': an indigenous music recording as identity narrative" (PDF), Aboriginal History, 24: 27–38, ISSN 0314-8769, JSTOR 24046357
  3. Watt, Jarrod (27 October 1995), "Album Reviews", The Age
  4. Schwartz, Larry (7 January 1996), "R. P. M", Sunday Age
  5. "ARIA Awards Best Indigenous Release". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Retrieved 4 April 2017.
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