Yirinda

Yirinda is a collaboration between contrabassist, producer, and composer Samuel Pankhurst and Butchulla songman Fred Leone that combines lush, polyrhythmic sonic landscapes with ancient Aboriginal language. Leone, a song and language custodian for the Butchulla people from the Fraser Coast region of Queensland, founded the region's first Aboriginal hip-hop label, Impossible Odds, and toured as a member of the musical theatre organization Black Arm Band. In 2020, he teamed up with Pankhurst under the Yirinda moniker, and the duo quickly garnered buzz for their unique fusion of ...