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The Cliffs Beheld

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“At Brymair Creek, in the Capertee Valley, a horrific massacre wiped out the majority of the Dabee people, around the year 1824. It’s quiet farmland now, in a beautiful valley surrounded by majestic cliffs. There is no memorial to those who were killed by the settler soldiers, and I don’t know exactly where the massacre happened. But the sounds of the violence must’ve echoed off those cliffs, as they bore witness. This bittersweet piece is not a recount of what happened; it’s a meditation on a beautiful and peaceful place where I saw cliffs, and eagles, and recorded the sounds of frogs as I imagined the scenes of a terrible massacre. Thank you Dabee woman and descendant of survivors, Emma Syme, who told me about this devastating event."

This track was commissioned by APRA for the 2021 Art Music Fund.
Sample recordings recorded at Brymair Creek in Capertee Valley, Dabee Country.

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from Delve, released July 21, 2023

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