Cool cd from the Black Brothers....
From Wikipedia:
Black Brothers was a well-known West Papuan pop group from Jayapura. The band consisted of five members, led by Andy Ayamiseba. Their music, sung in Tok Pisin, and originally in Indonesian, included influences from reggae and political elements inspired by the Black Power movement. The group went into voluntary exile in Vanuatu in 1979, protesting Indonesian policies in West Papua. They later moved to Papua New Guinea.
Black Brothers were the most popular musical group in New Guinea during the 1980s. The reggae influences of the Black Brothers influenced various other musical groups in Papua New Guinea.
From what I understand they put out quiet a few albums when they were staying in Papua New Guinea, those I don't have and those are the albums where their reggae influences were the most strong, I've got some of their (extremely rare) albums that came out here in Indonesia and those albums are mostly pop songs with the occasional funk banger.....
As far as West-Papua goes.... I've written about that on this blog before.... Right now it's still closed off for journalists, things are pretty bad in Boven Digoel, I'll just give you this link if you are interested:
GET IT HERE
Enjoy!
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