The artist’s chart-topping album Djarimirri is retold on stage through an orchestra, dance and video
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu was Australia’s most successful, charting-topping Indigenous musician. He was born blind and during his short life, wrote haunting songs celebrating his Yolngu heritage – he died at the age of just 46 in 2017 of liver and kidney disease.
Now, just under three years later, comes Buŋgul, a tribute concert co-produced by Perth festival and Skinnyfish Music, Gurrumul’s record label, owned by his close friends. Over the course of 90 minutes, the West Australian Symphony Orchestra perform his final and fourth studio album, Djarimirri. Woven over the top is a pre-recording of Gurrumul’s own voice and dancing by nine Yolngu male family members, who created their performance on country in North East Arnhem Land.
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