George Telek: Kambek (I Lilikun Mulai)

George Telek: Kambek (I Lilikun Mulai)

Down Home & Epic Listening Post 369. 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...
Kaumaakonga: Taoba

Kaumaakonga: Taoba

Outbound, Homebound Listening Post 247. The singer-musicians of Kaumaakonga are outliers because their ancestors traveled far. Their two small islands—Mungava and Mungiki, from which they derive Avaiki, the name of their Polynesian culture and language—occupy a corner...