Music Workshop with Tjaka

Seismic Talent Agency

17 May

Start: 10.30am

Finish: 11.30am

Location: Red Earth Arts Precinct  Studio Rooms

Ages: 12+

Adult: $15, Conc: $10

Tickets: https://karratha.sales.ticketsearch.com/sales/salesevent/161697

Participate in an immersive music workshop with TJAKA as they demonstrate their step-by-step approach to composing and producing a track.

Australian band, Tjaka, fuses electronic, funk, and hip-hop with Indigenous ancestral influences, creating music that remains deeply connected to their heritage while embracing modern production and performance techniques.

The brothers Geoff and Jake Fabila are proud descendants of the Jabirr Jabirr tribe in the Western Australian Kimberley, and are joined by their family friend and guitar virtuoso Felix Fogarty. They connect to their Indigenous roots through their music, crafting a contemporary experience influenced by hip-hop, reggae, funk and sounds from their ancestral Aboriginal culture.

Uniquely, Tjaka use the Didjeribone (a slide Didgeridoo) and the Facebass (a seismic microphone placed inside the mouth), blending them with electric guitar, fiery vocals and looped programming to not just continue what their predecessors started, but take it even further.

Tjaka pay respect to those who have paved the way before them; in particular musical innovators Charlie McMahon (creator of the Didjeribone and Facebass) and Tjupurru - their groundbreaking experiments with the Didgeridoo showcased it as a lead instrument and laid the foundation for generations of musicians to come.

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