By Shona Martyn
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this article contains images of, and refers to, people who have died.
In this snapshot of Peter Garrett's current playlist, artists who collaborated in The Makarrata Project are marked with an asterisk.
Baker Boy: The award-winning Australian rapper's hip-hop songs include both the English and Yolngu Matha languages. He was Young Australian of the Year in 2019.
Briggs: (Adam) Briggs is a Yorta Yorta rapper who co-founded A.B. Original with Trials (Daniel Rankine) in 2016. Their work includes the powerful single January 26 and the award-winning album Reclaim Australia.
Briggs
Kaleena Briggs*: Wiradjuri woman Kaleena Briggs is best known as part of the folk band Stiff Gins (with Nardi Simpson). She adopted a "heavier sound" for The Makaratta Project.
Kev Carmody*: A Murri man, Carmody co-wrote, with Paul Kelly, From Little Things Big Things Grow which tells the story of the Wave Hill walk-off, a key moment in the recognition of Indigenous rights.
Kev CarmodyCredit: ABC
Troy Cassar-Daley*: The multi-award-winning country music star, whose mother is Bundjalung, recorded Freedom Ride, a tribute to the late Aboriginal activist Charlie Perkins, and the eerie bluesy Shadows on the Hill, about a 19th-century Aboriginal massacre on Gumbaynggirr country.
Electric Fields: Vocalist Zaachariaha Fielding and keyboard player and producer Michael Ross combine modern electric-soul music with Aboriginal culture and sing in Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara and English.
Leah Flanagan*: The Darwin singer-songwriter draws on her Alyawarre, Italian and Irish heritage. Classically trained, her work navigates the margins between soul, jazz and lovingly crafted pop.
Leah FlanaganCredit: James Alcock
Gurrumul*: Born blind, Dr G Yunupingu grew up as a member of the Gumatj clan on Elcho Island, off the coast of tropical North East Arnhem Land. The internationally acclaimed artist, with a powerfully emotive voice, died in 2017. One of his vocals is included in The Makaratta Project.
Dr G Yunupingu
Tasman Keith*: Tasman Keith, a Gumbaynggirr man from Bowraville on NSW’s north coast, is the son of trailblazing rapper Wire MC. Featured on Triple J's Unearthed, one of his best-known songs is Billy Bad Again.
Bunna Lawrie*: Lawrie is a Mirning elder, whale songman and was a pioneering Indigenous rocker with his band Coloured Stone. At the end of the Midnight Oil single Gadigal Land, he sings "Wenyo", which means "welcome, greetings".
Jessica Mauboy*: Jessica Mauboy's songs and videos have been streamed over 292 million times around the world. She has toured with Beyonce, sung for Barack Obama, represented Australia at Eurovision in 2014 and starred in Bran Nue Dae and The Sapphires.
Jessica Mauboy in Lisbon as Australia's Eurovision representative.Credit: SBS
Shellie Morris & the Borroloola Songwomen: Since discovering her Wardaman and Yanyuwa roots, classically-trained Morris has worked with Borroloola Songwomen of the Northern Territory who are custodians of her maternal family's ancient Indigenous song cycles.
No Fixed Address: The Aboriginal reggae-rock band formed in Adelaide in 1979 when they fell under the spell of Bob Marley. One of the first Indigenous bands to be recorded, the 1984 video for We Have Survived was filmed at Palm Beach and Botany Bay.
Original band members of No Fixed Address in 2016: Lesley Graham Lovegrove (guitar, vocals) , Ricky Harrison (guitar, vocals)) ,Bart Willoughby (drums, vocals) and John John Miller (bass).Credit: Justin McManus
Thelma Plum: A Gamilaraay woman from Delungra, NSW, 25-year-old Plum's debut album Better in Blak in 2019 reached No.4 on the ARIA charts.
Archie Roach: Australian icon Archie Roach's debut album Charcoal Lane was released in 1990 and featured the song Took the Children Away about the Stolen Generation. When he was four, he and his sisters were forcibly removed from their family.
Singer Alice Skye.Credit: Michelle Grace Hunder
Alice Skye*: Alice Skye, a Wergaia woman from Horsham in Victoria, was the Triple J Unearthed National Indigenous Winner in 2017. She released her debut album Friends With Feelings in 2018.
Dan Sultan*: The multi-award-winning alternative rock singer and guitarist has Arrernte and Gurindji heritage. His albums include the ARIA-winning Black Bird (2014) and he has also played in Black Arm Band, a collective of Indigenous musicians.
Warumpi Band: Formed in the Aboriginal settlement of Papunya in the central desert region of the Northern Territory in the early '80s, the band released the first rock song in an Aboriginal language Jailanguru Pakarnu (Out From Jail) in 1983. They toured with Midnight Oil on the Blackfella/Whitefella tour of 1986. Guitarist Sammy Butcher is part of The Makarrata Project.
The Warumpi Band in Papunya in 1981, from left, Gordon Butcher, Neil Murray, Sammy Butcher, Denis Minor and George Rrurrambu (deceased).
Frank Yamma*: Frank Yamma, who sings in both Pitjantjatjara and English, is the son of Issac Yamma, one of the pioneers of singing Western style songs in traditional language. His most recent release, Tjukurpa: The Story, is nominated in the 2020 ARIA Awards for best blues and roots album.
Yothu Yindi: Formed through the merger of a band of unnamed musicians from the Yolngu homelands in Arnhem Land with a non-Indigenous group called the Swamp Jockeys, Yothu Yindi (which means Child and Mother) is most famous for the hit song Treaty (1991).
Ursula Yovich*: Ursula is a celebrated playwright and actor whose work includes Barbara and the Camp Dogs and The Man with the Iron Neck. On the musical front, she has toured with Black Arm Band. Growing up in Darwin, her first language was her mother’s Burarra.
Midnight Oil will donate its share of proceeds from The Makarrata Project to organisations that seek to elevate The Uluru Statement From The Heart. Sony Music Entertainment Australia will match any artist contribution. You can pre-order the album, which will be released on October 30, from midnightoil.com/makarrata/.