Wirindji
The Australian Voices conducted by Gordon Hamilton sing Wirindji, by Stephen Leek, during their 2011 Germany Tour. This is amateur footage from their concert at St Stephani, Bremen in December, 2011. The text of this piece is really cool. It is about a mystical tribe of desert women who would stamp their feet into the dust creating beautiful clouds. Light would shine through and create patterns and rainbows. Men would be attracted by these clouds and come to the women’s camp. The Wirindji women would cook for them, mate with them then kill them and eat them! You can hear the beautiful sounds of the desert landscape, the clusters of sunlight and the dangerous moral 
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