spoken word in aussie music

*Explicit* Some swears and a drug reference. What is the Aussie storyteller? A larrikin, a rabble-rouser, a muso, a politician? Join Absent DJ in a brief and by no means exhaustive excursion into spoken word in Australian music. Poems, field recordings, samples - political malaise & the great Aussie drawl. TRACKLIST ju ca - ... hiding our long shadows like wilted flowers [or words that fell like murmurs... unable to touch] "live excerpt” EYE - GST (the Goods & Services Tax - redistributing funds from the poor to the rich?) Mood Ring - MRV1 r hunter - Improvisation for poem by Stine Marie Jacobsen Red Wine and Sugar - That Book You're Reading EYE - Transnational Corporations Own 90% of Australia but pay <8% of the Tax. Laila Sakini - Life Out Here Is Changing dream dad - Bye ju ca - ... hiding our long shadows like wilted flowers [or words that fell like murmurs... unable to touch] "live excerpt”