Art Residency: Music in Exile

Music in Exile is a Melbourne-based not-for-profit record label aimed at increasing access to resources and building professional networks for musicians from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. The non-profit operates on an ‘artist first’ principle, ensuring that individual artists have ownership over the tools and resources necessary to build viable careers for themselves and working to build an arts sector that truly reflects the myriad viewpoints and experiences.

www.musicinexile.com.au

Music in Exile at the Old Carpet Factory portrait by Ekaterina Juskowski

CATEGORY
Launching New Project

YEAR
2024

GRANT

Creative Australia: International Engagement Fund

PROJECT DESCRIPTION
During their Art Residency at the Old Carpet factory in November 2024, Music in Exile invited seven musicians from different parts of the world to write and record and album together.

Boubacar Gaye (Senegal/Australia), Amadou Suso (Gambia/Australia), ‘Magou’ Seny Samb (Senegal/France), Seydou Diabeté (Burkina Faso), Gordon Li (Australia/UK) and Harry Ling (UK). The sessions was produced and engineered by Stefan Blair (Australia, Good Morning band).

Greece is a central point between nations in Europe, Africa and Asia, and often sees the convergence of many international migration routes. The island of Hydra itself is rich in cultural history and has been a hub for international artists in the 20th and 21st centuries. Artists like Bouabcar, Amadou, Magou and Seydou have lived through experience of the process of migration, and what it means to leave home in search of new opportunities.

Photography by Aleisha Heidi Zoumaras @aleisha_zoumaras

Music in Exile at the Old Carpet Factory

Stefan Blair Good Morning band Old Carpet Factory