MATOGO

TELEK

Genre: music4me > world > world

Format: CD Album

Released: Mon 30 Jul 2007

Catalogue Number: SV0587

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Description:
George often talks about stringband songs being loveletters. That a man will come up to him in the village and ask him to write a song letting the woman of his fancy know that he has feelings for her. Almost like songs for hire. The songs are very village based. This album of stringband tunes details a wide variety of relationship situations of the Moab's poromen (equal men). This album centres around Raluana, close to Kokopo, near Rabual in the Papua New Guinean province of East New Britian. The Moab Strinband is one of the most highly regarded stringbands of PNG. This has much to do with the fact that their lead singer, George Telek, is a very well known performer in his own right. Famed as a rock singer in the band Painim Wok and for his solo records, his international recordings mix traditional world music with rock and stringband styles. The Moab style is much pacier and rockier compared to other more lilting stringband styles. A centrepiece of the Moab style is the bass playing of Wargi Apelis who is held in high regard in both PNG and Australia.

The lyrics to these songs are sung in Kuanuan, the local language (tok ples) of the Tolai people of Rabaul or Tok Pisin, the lingua franca of PNG.

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