Strikingly fresh and warmly familiar, George Telek’s music offers a study in contrasts. One of the few singer-songwriters from Papua New Guinea to achieve international renown, he cloaks his touching voice in a stylistic range extending from rock and reggae to string-band airs and Melanesian harmonies. Kambek (Coming Back), his latest album, is the first recorded in his home base of Rabaul, in East New Britain province, since a volcanic … More George Telek: Kambek (I Lilikun Mulai)