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industry attention. 5. Gordon Koang In 2014, Gordon Koang came to Australia to seek asylum from the war in Sudan. At this year's BIGSOUND, the now Melbourne-based artist

playing my instrument for 31 years and came to Australia in 2014 to seek asylum because Sudan has a war. God has blessed us by bringing our permanent residency

history of violent dispossession from First Nations peoples, or the way we leave asylum seekers to languish in offshore prisons – are the “undercurrents” of the production. “They're the things

societal - particularly government-created - pressures that impact some of Australia's most vulnerable, like asylum seekers. "We need to keep those stories being told and keep drawing attention ... banks of looped vocal in a slow-building epic about the ongoing detention of asylum seekers and refugees on islands in the Pacific. The song uses vocal manipulation to hint

People is, which is pretty specific about the Australian Government's treatment of asylum seekers back in, like, 2007 and even still today. Nothing has changed, which is great

modern world. We filmed a music video that tries to capture that type of asylum experience. Any tour dates coming up? We’re playing our Adelaide launch show

arrival to New York City "[It was] like the lunatics had taken over the asylum and they had." "I ran away at the age of 13 to find

venues across Yarra will host a huge number of events including single launches from Asylum Sisters , Moaning Lisa and Piss Factory and Regurgitator  will also bring their

musician and a bonafide superstar from South Sudan who came to Australia as an asylum seeker. Gordon invited us to his gig at a community hall where 400 people from

mistreatment, suggestive of Australia’s unsympathetic and callous off shore processing and detention of asylum seekers. The hushed vocal delivery of the track gives these words an even deeper meaning