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Reviewed on 6/17/2024...

"An album full of haunting, stirring, compassionate, sardonic and dark beauty"
-Deiter Bajzek, Folk Alliance Australia

Iain Campbell Smith left the Australian festival circuit to work in the war-ravaged islands of the South Pacific, learning pidgin dialect, and writing songs in both English and Pidgin, to tell the stories of the people he worked with as they struggled to build trust and peace after a bitter war.

"A stunning marriage of ethereal poetry and hard nosed realism lyrically, with relentless rhythm and fragile, shimmering melody"
-Warwick McFadyen, The Age, Melbourne, Australia

"Bagarap Empires is an intelligent, compassionate and sardonic Australian's response to his experiences as a Peace Keeper in Bougainville and the Solomon Islands."
-Doug Spencer, Presenter, ABC Radio National