Desert Twang

05/10/2025

I'm happy to have found this track, as it was never really completed or mixed down, but it's a beautiful memory of working with the Warlpiri guitar maestro and great friend, Kumanjayi Japananga Brown.

01/07/2025

Welcome to The Mondulkiri Space Project - a place where sound merges fuzz box psychedelic rock with ancient tribal rhythms, groovy Isan Phin lute, stoner rock riffs, and sacred bronze gongs, amplifying endangered Bunong culture through what The Wire called "a psychedelic dialogue between past and future."

Mondulkiri Space Project ~ Sacred Gongs & Mountain Songs70's Stoner rock? No, it's "The Cosmic Bongs" jamming Fish Island Groove Club Sun Dec 29, 2024

29/06/2025

It's a real honour to work with Ned Jampinpa Hargraves on a song - something with a REAL message. The track's taking shape with a full band line-up and the s...

29/06/2025

Beautiful woodblock prints made for Desert Twang! by the artists and printmakers of Fish Island Community Arts Centre, Cambodia. From coastal Cambodia to the desert lands... It's a Twang Thang!

24/06/2025

Desert Twang! Songwriter sessions at the Old Courthouse, here in Mparntwe, Alice Springs, are proving to be a great thing to do. But it's made so much more profound and meaningful when someone like Ned Jampijinpa Hargraves comes in and sings with all the culture, sorrow, spirit and knowledge that he brings and shares with us - gravitas. This little snippet is just a sketch of things we're working on. It's hauntingly beautiful while eerily profound considering we're sitting in the middle of an old courthouse, and recording music to bring to attention the plight of First Nations Australians - the most incarcerated people in the world.
https://youtu.be/Pghmq2KCQpg?si=SnNYL590Sg1KVRld

23/06/2025

It's a Twang Thang!
"Lee Hazlewood’s ghost jamming with Slim Dusty in a Coober Pedy drive-in. The Shadows meet Hunter S. Thompson in a khaki safari suit. Paris Texas vibes with a Fender Jaguar twangin’ reverb-soaked Ry Cooder riffs off the walls of Uluru"
www.deserttwang.com.au