JIIR: Pigram Brothers
CD Released 2001

The original saltwater sound, the Pigram Brothers’ music defines their hometown – the mythical birthplace of poets and pearlers, Broome, Western Australia.

This band of brothers was voted Best Indigenous Artists 2005 at the West Australia Music Industry Awards. The band produces exceptional original music, delivering an infectious mix of earthy harmonies and acoustic stringed instruments, bringing to life songs about their saltwater lifestyle and homeland.

The songs from the first two Pigram Brothers albums, Saltwater Country (produced by Shane Howard of Goanna) and Jiir (produced by NY based Kerryn Tolhurst of Dingoes fame) have become anthems for the awesome Kimberley region of far north western Australia, embedding themselves into this ancient landscape.

"My land by the water, my land by the waterside / Jiir, milgin-nguur'/ Feeding on the rising tide / High above the mangrove down Burrgoogoon / Hunting for my family / You know the tide right / Just look at the moon / yellow wattle flower smell 'em, tell 'em that the mullet must be fat today / Sliding in, glide on the wind of the late afternoon." (My Land by The Pigrams and P.Mamid.)

A Jiir is a small sea eagle and My Land is a song from the point of view of an Osprey on the wing. This song of place is the title track from that c.d.

The Pigram Brothers are:
Stephen, Alan, Colin, David, Phillip, Gavin. Peter


Instruments:
Acoustic guitars, electric guitar, slide guitar, dobro, banjo, mandolin, ukelele, harmonica, accordion, bass guitar, drums, spoons, shaker, cabasa, congas, pot and pan, clapsticks, tambourine

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