Alan Maralung

Alan Maralung was an Australian aboriginal musician who fortunately was recorded several times during his life, providing important documentation of his musical traditions. In the process he created some of the most enduring documents of a music and a culture that many find simply fascinating. His name, Maralung, was taken from the place where he was conceived, a few miles northeast of Barunga at a spot called Flying Fox Creek. Maralung had another identity as a painter named Barney, eventually nicknamed Barney Painter. He spoke two of the original native dialects, Ngalkbon an...