CAAMA MUSIC’S

DESERT POP, LOCK & DROP

COMPILATION ALBUM

As sand trickles through the hour glass, so does this new compilation of CAAMA Music come to the Australian public, like the hour glass the emphasis on time is vital and CAAMA Music could not have chosen a better time to release this album, like the sand with its variation not only in genre but also in styles and it’s fusion of cultural with contemporary this album is a must listen to album.

 

The title Desert Pop- Popular music deriving from the Northern Territory Desert areas Alice Springs and Yuedumu Community, Lock the way the beats lock in and captivate the hearts and minds of the people with these songs and Drop the volume of richness, youthful vibrancy and quality of these songs are being dropped into the laps of everyday Australians through the airwaves to incite and open their perspective of this albums interpretations in song and music.

 

This unique album was created by CAAMA Music Label for an outreach music project called POPPORTUNITY for local youth talent in Alice Springs and Indigenous Community bands out at Yuedumu. Professional producers were deliberately selected for these two areas to develop and create the fusion of the desert reggae sounds and contemporary flow of the newly created material. These songs were created at the height of the dreaded swine flu so special mention to those who were able to participate in the actual recording. These producers were chartered to work with seriously young youths from as young as 13yrs to 25 in Alice Springs, to develop their songs into a radio friendly format and the experience of the whole creation process was invaluable for these young participants. As the talents of the youth from both communities were encouraged to grow, develop and create a product which CAAMA Music are proud to put their stamp of approval to mark it their own, this has been such a success that the objectives for this project has superseded the expectations of the project.

 

With songs like the title track Desert Pop, Lock & Drop this catchy Hip-Hop song gets you hooked to the lyrics as much as to the sultry vocal styles of Cassandra Williams and rhythmic tutor of Mei Lai Swan this song marks the new direction CAAMA Music is projecting towards.

Following in this same genre’ is a cute yet vibrate depiction of the hip hop flow is a song ingeniously delivered by 13 year old Darlyhne Lillico “Songwriter” .

Like we said this compilation offers many variations of styles and genre’s so comes this pop rock song by Tom Ghea “Falling Star” to get the young girls excited about this new young singer songwriter only 15yrs old and wanting to catch his falling star. Two beautiful pop rock ballads “Feelin This’’ by young Jessica Laruffa and “ The Ending” which is fittingly the last track on this beautifully produced album with her soothing haunting yet freshly innocent vocal presentation is Kirra Voller many great things coming from her up ahead. From town to the outer community Yuedumu these magical blending of desert reggae with a contemporary taste threaded into the delivery of these songs “Judge” and “Dream Again”. There is no excuse for you to miss out on this ‘Bush to Town’ journey structured compilation.

 

Desert Pop, Lock & Drop can only be described as an album that makes the desert sounds rise like a phoenix out of the blazing heat of the desert, into the commercial world of the music industry.

Published By Josephine Lafaele