Event: CD Launch

Venue: Tanks Arts Centre

Artist: Kamerunga (Folk/World/Funk Band)

7:30pm Friday 16th March 2012

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Kamerunga on top of the World

After conquering Port Fairy at the weekend, Kamerunga return to Cairns on Friday to launch their brand new album at the Tanks Arts Centre, before jetting off south again for performances at Canberra's National Folk Festival.

Following a support spot from 16-year-old Jordan Brodie, one of the region's finest young acoustic guitarists, the festival-hopping local band will be running through the songs on Worlds Kaleid in reverse order as well as reprising some upgraded favourites from their first release, The Push.

With entry only $15 ($10 concession), the band is hoping for a bumper turn out as they christen the "new baby".

Kamerunga has redefined and reinvigorated Australian folk, blending original composition with tradition and elements of world music, jazz, classical, rock and reggae to create a vivid new fusion.

Worlds Kaleid continues the exhilarating journey that began with its 2008 debut album. The Push garnered rave reviews, an ARIA nomination for Best World Music album and earned Kamerunga a place at some of Australia's major festivals, including the Byron Bay Bluesfest, and an invitation to perform at the 2011 Rainforest World Music Festival in Borneo, an event featuring bands from more than 20 countries.

Recorded at the Cairns studio of Kamerunga's drummer and dual ARIA-winning producer Nigel Pegrum (former member of UK folk-rock pioneers and chart-toppers Steeleye Span), Worlds Kaleid features guest contributions from the Cat Empire's trumpeter Harry James Angus, oud maestro Joseph Tawadros, slide guitar master Jeff Lang and The Bushwackers' lagerphone player extraordinaire Dobe Newton, who are among the finest players of their respective instruments in Australia.

Kamerung's frontline comprises the creme de la creme of Cairns' multi-instrumentalists in Peter Ella (acoustic & electric guitars, tenor guitar, mandolin, violin), Andree Baudet (saxophones, keyboards, cello) and lead singer David Martin (violin, mandolin), supported by a dynamic rhythm section - Torres Strait Islander Will Kepa (bass) and Nigel Pegrum (drums), with national music writer Tony Hillier on rhythm guitar and backing vocals.

Original compositions on the new album include Burke's Lament, a poignant song based on a letter that the ill-fated explorer Robert O' Hara Burke wrote in 1860 on the day before he died, and The Cameleers, an instrumental tribute to the Afghan camel herders who helped open up the Australian outback in the 19th century.

The album also includes a paean to Seisia, a beautiful part of the far north, situated on the cusp of the Torres Strait. Fannie Bay recognises another part of the Top End and an infamous 19th century Darwin gaol. Queensland Whalers, Ryebuck!, Lazy Harry's and Lime Juice Tub salute other aspects of Australian history.

The band will be selling (and autographing) copies of the album after Friday's gig. Worlds Kaleid will be released nationally (on Planet/MGM) on May 4.

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