WM2-005a - Airileke - Weapon of Choice

Airileke "Airi" David Ingram, is a Papua New Guinean-Australian musician and producer. Ingram was born in Australia, his family comes from a village, Gabagaba, Central Province, Papua New Guinea and he is of Melanesian descent.He grew up in both PNG and Darwin, Northern Territory. About Airileke. Source: Wantok Musik. "Airileke (Irie-Leke) is an artist and producer with a reputation for leading innovative music projects such as DRUM DRUM, Guerilla Step and the Wantok Musik Foundation". "His unique sound melds futuristic ideas and traditional beats that hark back to ancient Melanesian culture. Sample based hip-hop production, fierce log drumming, Papuan chants, atmospheric sound-scapes and samples of West Papua’s Free Papua Movement (OPM) delve into one of the region’s darkest stories—the oppression and illegal occupation of West Papua. This is the new sound of urban Melanesia". (a) Full Freedom Song and film clip off the 2012 Wantok release album Weapon of Choice by Gaba Gaba/ Australian artists Airileke. https://www.wantokmusik.org/airileke Film clip shot by Tim Cole in Port Moresby settlements. (b) Weapon of Choice His album Weapon of Choice (October 2012) was nominated at the ARIA Music Awards of 2013 for Best World Music Album. The release of his debut album ‘Weapon of Choice’ in November 2012 is the culmination of his life-long immersion in the sounds of Melanesia, creating a new hybrid music community between Australia and the Pacific". Source: Wantok Musik (David Bridie & Steven Gagau, April 2024) . Language as given: