Bapa Live Enmore Sydney 2008

[Pantonesara]

...I'm not crying.

Rain is just pouring down my face! :'(

[nate2611]

Beautiful Music

[madjack1969]

Hauntingly Beautiful.....could listen to this song a million times and still shed a tear.....magical!

[wirlwirlwirl]

What do you think he sees when everyone claps for him? Sad indeed.

[herrgalvez]

wunderbar!

[CatTyrone]

inspirational

[lizoir]

@gypsybaby71 .. I cant hear this beautiful song and see this vibrant and talented man without the opposite, and all too common, image powerfully coming to mind. BUT thank you for your comment a year after my original post as I'm now in the right place to listen to this song again :)

[herrgalvez]

wunderbar



[velvetvelluto]

Gurrumul - the Australian Andrea Bocelli! Bravo!

[nikitsi48]

Very great voice ! Beautiful song ! Bravo !

Niki from France

[MrWerason]

Could anyone translate this for me? This is the most beautiful song I have heard!

[mickslats]

@MrWerason I have to agree MrWerason that the song is as beautiful as any song could ever be. He is sharing with us the grief he felt about the passing of his father (Bapa). I have never heard a song that has made me feel so emotional, when I got some insight into the story of the song I realised perhaps why.

[susiemv]

@MrWerason I agree...it's an incrediblly moving song. The lyrics are on another Youtube clip which I've copied here for you... Grief has taken hold of me For my father When the sun sets Oh, beloved father Crying and crying When the sun goes down My mind there at Bekulnura Oh, beloved father. Two Gumatj ladies crying Ancestor boss ladies Dhuwandjika and Daylulu When the sun sets My mind there at the place Gunyanara (Bekulnura)

[MrWerason]

@susiemv Thanks so much. I could feel the emotion, pain, but wanted the words.......

[hamdj005]

I probably won't try and cover this.

[ppm4eva]

Gurrumul is magical, with a voice that can convey pure emotion. I want the whole world to hear him sing. I love his voice, his sentiment, his shyness. He is the embodiment of beauty.

[stensholm1975]

beautiful



[Tillyg55]

This is 1 of my fave song u go Geoffrey! the song's u sing man it just hit's u, reminde me of wen i was a kid but today wan i hear ur song's now i just cry its just touch me and make me think of my family, Thank's Geoffrey for makeing a very strong song!

[fatchrome]

This voice is so beautiful.

[ADiepenbach]

Prachtig  nol...................

[brusselke]

lots of respect from Belgium.

Love you man,your voice does realy something with me

[DEAMURID]

just hit ireland un real

[MrTele57]

@DEAMURID with you there

[RainDub]

This song is about his father abandoning him and his family. The chorus melody represents the crying of his mother and sisters. his eldest song translated this to me.

[sharvie73]

@RainDub Actually this is about when his father died. the words translate as how sad he feels, and he misses his father. and how any normal person would feel at such a time. to say his father abandoned and all this shit is crap. Whoever u are piss off.

[RainDub]

@sharvie73 wow; chiiiiill winston. This is just what his eldest son told me, as Pingu played for us around a camp fire. I distinctly remember him speaking of abandonment; maybe I missed the bit where he said he died. if so... woops.

[davidoffon]

@sharvie73 don't talk to people like that, especially not here. Reason outwits boule shit everymime.

[DJEasty]

This is just incredible, heard it on the radio this morning and was just... wow.

[Yelens82]

one of the most beautiful and emotional songs ive heard in a long long time i will definetley look out for the album, fantastic!

[shane0o7]

gives me the goose bumps! love it.

[azcdef999]

what a sad ignorant totaly pathetic individual this mondoftw is i dont know anything about aboriginal culture this person should lean there are are good and bad elements in all cultures and also love this amazing talent for what it is superb i never tire hearing this great and wonderfull singer songwriter who is Gurrumul.

[mondoftw]

Read the 1st line i wrote you dickhead! You call me ignorant? Ive worked on more than 30 different aboriginal communities in the NT and far north QLD repairing air cononditioning and refrigeration. I think your the ignorant one. Your a typical youtube brat that acts tough behind a computer keyboard! Get your head outa that fucken hole its in mate you dont know shit about anything, now fuck off.

[mairanya1]

Loved him in concert at Perth Concert Hall last night. I enjoyed the arrangements with the string quartet.

[Custer85]

I really love his music and his voice, but this video features too many instruments. I prefer to hear him sing along with his guitar, and maybe one additional instrument, but this was a bit too much. I dont want anything to overshadow his beutiful voice.

[mondoftw]

I respect this amazing talent more than words can describe. To be born blind and come from a community where most teenagers would go down the usual path of alcohol and substance abuse-he really didnt have a chance. Anyone know what the album this song is on is called ?

[tigersteaprty]

our "community" loves the "usual" drink and drug path to normal life.

[petechilcott]

The album is called 'Gurrumul' DRAMCD0054

[dermitdemwindspricht]

Eine Gänsehautstimme - das beste was je aus dem Land der Regenbogenschlange kam ... fantastisch !!!

[seechrns]

Do y'all think that the actual 'sounds' he ismaking is the power, like some sort of mantra or have we been smoking too much weed. I really am touched by this and rarely listen to anything not in English or Spenglish (pouncy education result of)

[rathlogan]

Beauiful song , move me to tears

[martcarey]

farewell father .

[thomgrub]

music power

[wiradjuri84]

BLACK POWER

[martcarey]

He would be ashamed of you writing such claptrap wiradjuri84,you pathetic useless eejit.

[etnocs]

on the contrary, martcarey, many australian aborigines identify with the "black power" movement, as they see it as a sign of fellow peoples suffering poverty and marginalisation. That, and many of them are, also, black! How surprising!

And as for Gurrumul, how do you know he would be ashamed? Do you speak Yolngu Matha?

useless eejit...heh...

[seechrns]

and haven't you heard of Paul Robeson? Man what a guy, living large, international singer, actor but when he came to Australia he was moved to tears by how he say indigenous ppl. Aborgines were moved too by someone who was 'passing' to take on their platform. Paul also threw down for the Welsh miners in UK. The American government rewarded his active Christian charity by taking away his passport... and worse

[lizoir]

You are a beautiful man Jeffrey. And playing that big guitar left-handed when you can't even see it. I admit I'm as white as it gets when it comes to knowledge of the original caretakers of this great land of ours. I have seen the pain and smelt the dispair (and petrol) of the coori man and hope that you can be a shining light for the beautiful people of your birth.

[gypsybaby71]

@lizoir I love your comments, but just once can we not have a comment about petrol, when talking about Aboriginals. Can't we just let it be beautiful?

[dimuska]

Nice song!

[TeeWee2008]

This is just breath taking, it has moved me to tears thank you for sharing your amazing talent Gurrumul.

[milune11]

god bless you

lots of love

[SauronsEye]

I am blessed to be living in the time of Gurrumul.

[LHOOQ1959]

I saw you perform Bapa at the Dreaming Festival - it still makes me cry. The voice of an angel. Thank you.

[waramanga]

beautiful!