O-shen live in Brisbane | Pacific Reggae Sounds | APT6 Documentary

The APT6 documentary follows O-shen (Papua New Guinea/Hawaii, United States) in the lead up to his opening celebration performance that night | 7.30pm | Saturday 5 December 2009 | Long Gallery, GoMA

EXHIBITION WEBSITE: http://www.qag.qld.gov.au/apt6

The opening celebration of APT6 featured reggae acts from across the Pacific, coinciding with the exhibition component of Pacific Reggae: Roots Beyond the Reef. Pacific Reggae is a vibrant form of contemporary expression that taps into the international circuit while celebrating unique local flavours. The associated exhibition Pacific Reggae: Roots Beyond the Reef presents a series of reggae performances and video clips, live and recorded, demonstrating this rich musical form.

Leading reggae musician O-shen headlined the opening event, which celebrated the vital connections reggae makes from Port Vila to Auckland and from Honolulu to Honiara.

O-Shen made an impact in Papua New Guinea with his 1997 debut and subsequently broke into the Hawaiian market with his 2000 album Iron Youth. His popularity throughout the Pacific rose with subsequent albums Rascal in Paradise and Rising Son, and his 2007 release 1 Rebel cemented his ranking as one of the regions premier reggae artists.

Pacific Reggae responds to the vital connections that musicians from Port Vila to Auckland and Honolulu to Honiara make with reggae culture. Much Pacific reggae maintains key structural similarities to Jamaican roots music, including one drop drumbeats, steady bass lines and chopping guitar, while the introduction of log drums, bone flutes, ukulele and electronic beats contribute to reggaes unique sound across the Pacific. The parallel developments of home-recording studios and a proliferating music-video industry in the region have enabled a reggae scene to flourish and assert its own distinctive style.

Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT6), 5 December 2009 - 5 April 2010, Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA), Brisbane, Australia

Camera & editing | Daniel Marsden

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• Queensland
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• QAG
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• Modern
• GoMA
• O-shen
• APT6
• Asia
• Pacific
• Triennial
• Contemporary
• Reggae
• Sounds

[umbengable]

AWESOME, keep promoting our beautiful culture the pacific, Oshen, Ambassador for PNG music and culture, great musician...holim olsem..mangi ples...

[dealdesign0003]

Nice video, "reggaelinx website" has the best collection of reggae videos if you are into reggae music.

[kettlebabii]

O-shen <3

[toxiclown69]

I hope one day he will make it bigger then Wayne or Justin Beiber. This guy has some true talent, no auto tuning or anything fake like that. In my eyes he is just one of the best this world has to offer.

[AvacadoStarbucks]

@ william96712 You are SO lucky! Tell him I said I LOOOOVE him haha hes the best!

[william96712]

oshen lives down the road from me, cool guy i see him all the time and say whats up to eachother

[1kaosjnr]

awww so Jealous...  why dont you come to sydney

[jrtero]

BEST!

[mangipops]

O-shen's the man, grew up listening to his music, One Love brotha!!