UPK#6 - Track 12: Raputji Pulka

Added by Nganampa Health

Description Lyric Video for Track 12 of UPK#6.

Liam Tunkin, Amata Community
All my family and relations, listen to me. Sickness comes from squalid living. If you do the right things you will live well, have a good life. We should keep things clean; in the past times the land was clean and the places were well looked after but now we go to the store all the time. Everyone eats the food and throws the rest away. Why do this now?! We should clean it up and so respect the ancestors who kept it clean for us.

UPK stands for Uwankara Palyanku Kanyintjaku; a Pitjantjatjara expression meaning ‘everybody building and caring for the future’.

Using music is an agent of change, the songwriters involved take aim the root causes of hurt they see around them, like petrol sniffing, alcohol and drug addiction, waste management, care-for-country, hunting, and homesickness.

The content of UPK songs is not about blame or victimhood but a musical effort to address the factors that contribute to, or impact on, good living.

Creating awareness is the intention of UPK music because it is the key precedent to positive action.

UPK6 was recorded at West Bore in the APY Lands using an open-air studio with a hessian fence for wind-break, used carpet to keep the dirt down, and digital recording gear housed in the front room of an old outstation home.

The resulting album was released on the APY Lands in the form of a USB slap band containing the whole album, plus a karaoke version complete with scrolling Pitjantjatjara lyrics.