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Matt Hepworth spoke with Duo Electric Fields who will be performing at Parrtjima · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Well.
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  Speaker 2: Multi award winning Electric Fields will be performing in the
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  Speaker 2: NT as part of the Pajama Festival this year on
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  Speaker 2: Friday the ninth of April at Rangers Stage, Desert Park. Now,
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  Speaker 2: of course, Pajama it is a fusion of living traditional
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  Speaker 2: culture with electronic music that's of course going to make
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  Speaker 2: for a fantastic performance. And joining me on the line
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  Speaker 2: now someone that will be there, Electric Fields duo vocalist
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  Speaker 2: Zacharry Fielding and keyboard player and producer Michael Ross. Good
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  Speaker 2: morning to you both.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning morning, oh guys.
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  Speaker 2: We are looking forward to having you back in the
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  Speaker 2: Northern Territory as part of the Pajama Festival. How are
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  Speaker 2: you feeling about returning to the NT and being a
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  Speaker 2: part of the festival?
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  Speaker 1: Very exciting. We loved Pajama the first time we performed,
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  Speaker 1: and just the atmosphere and the environment that the town
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  Speaker 1: holds is just so beautiful and wonderful that we can
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  Speaker 1: perform our music. But being in the atmospheric situation there,
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  Speaker 1: it's just it just compliments everything and then it just
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  Speaker 1: stuff makes sense. I mean, with clear access with the
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  Speaker 1: night sky there.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk a little bit more about your music and
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  Speaker 2: your performances. As I understand it, You guys formed back
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  Speaker 2: in twenty fifteen. What's that experience been like from then
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  Speaker 2: until now?
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  Speaker 3: Well, well, it's been very fast paced from the get go.
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  Speaker 3: I mean we released our music in July of twenty fifteen,
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  Speaker 3: and three weeks after the EP launch we slew to
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  Speaker 3: China Wow for six days to perform, and then a
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  Speaker 3: couple of weeks after that we were in Scotland. So
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  Speaker 3: we've kind of really hit the ground running from the
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  Speaker 3: very beginning. And it was really wonderful to win that
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  Speaker 3: NIMA because it was a huge nod from the Aboriginal
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  Speaker 3: community that they love our music, you know, which is
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  Speaker 3: and our music is to be shared and it is
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  Speaker 3: for people to really take into their world, you know
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  Speaker 3: if it resonates with them. So that's why that was
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  Speaker 3: so special, because it was a confirmation that we had
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  Speaker 3: hit the right mood and the ideas were translating to
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  Speaker 3: other people.
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  Speaker 2: Zacharong, as I understand it. You obviously using your music
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  Speaker 2: in your own traditional language. That must be a wonderful
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  Speaker 2: experience to be able to share your culture and your
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  Speaker 2: experience to other people who might not necessarily understand it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a really beautiful When we first were in
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  Speaker 1: the studio and then we played with jan Kundeta language
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  Speaker 1: my language, I was a bit hesitant at first because
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  Speaker 1: I was like, is this a smart move to share
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  Speaker 1: a lot of my part of my identity, because I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. At that time, I was very shy to
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  Speaker 1: show the beauty of myself to the listeners. And then
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  Speaker 1: it found its momentum and rhythm and then I was like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: not only do I get to share this, I'm gaining
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  Speaker 1: a lot of strengths from this. I'm I kind of
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  Speaker 1: felt the wave of my worth coming through as well.
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  Speaker 1: So once I felt that, I locked it in and
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  Speaker 1: then just kept going with it. And it was wonderful
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  Speaker 1: to share annual called culture and animal's language and Pizzindeta
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  Speaker 1: because it's a part of my identity and it's good
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  Speaker 1: to give your audience when you learn what an audience
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  Speaker 1: is about a part of you. And then you know.
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  Speaker 1: Now that we're five years in with the electric Field thing,
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  Speaker 1: it's just so beautiful to hear it sung quite often
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  Speaker 1: at live shows, singing it with you, and then you're
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  Speaker 1: hearing them sing it back at you, and it's like
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  Speaker 1: we really did this.
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  Speaker 2: This is this is beautiful, such a special experience. Michael
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  Speaker 2: as understand it. You guys came second in the search
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  Speaker 2: for a group of artists to represent Australia at Eurovision
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  Speaker 2: in Oz decides what was that experience?
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  Speaker 3: Like, yeah, that was it was really epic. We were
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  Speaker 3: a bit nervous in the sense that we were like,
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  Speaker 3: should we go to this blah blah blah. And then
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  Speaker 3: it kind of was very spooky that one of my
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  Speaker 3: friends said to me, check out the SBS website because
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  Speaker 3: she saw something zach Arice had a friend said the
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  Speaker 3: same thing. We went there and what they said to
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  Speaker 3: look for wasn't there. But we found ourselves on a
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  Speaker 3: page saying upload your song here. Yeah, and so we
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  Speaker 3: were like, oh, well should we just do it? And
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  Speaker 3: we went wow man as well, and then it just
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  Speaker 3: the next thing, you know, we're on stage performing and
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  Speaker 3: then we get off stage and the SBS marketing lady said,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the Electric Fields is trending on Twitter number
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  Speaker 3: seven worldwide. Wow. How But that's when we realized, all right,
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  Speaker 3: it's not really it's only a few people in Australia watching,
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  Speaker 3: but there's people millions all throughout Europe were watching the
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  Speaker 3: Australian performances as well, and they totally got what we
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  Speaker 3: were bringing to the stage and it was actually amazing
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  Speaker 3: to share that. It was a very beautiful experience, to
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  Speaker 3: be honest.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of millions millions of people tuned into the twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty AFL Grand Final, you were one of the performers there.
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  Speaker 2: What was that like?
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  Speaker 3: Wow, that was epic. I mean it was live to television.
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  Speaker 3: It was about three point eight millions Australians watching and
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  Speaker 3: another million or so overseas. I mean basically we were
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  Speaker 3: sharing the song that we really adore. We performed from
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  Speaker 3: Little Things Big Things Grow by kenv Carmedy and Paul
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  Speaker 3: Kelly and it's the story of Vincent lyn Gowy and
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  Speaker 3: his eight years sit in protest and to actually bring
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  Speaker 3: that song with Vincent lyn Garry's voice to such a
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  Speaker 3: epic platform. I mean when I talk about the AFL
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  Speaker 3: Grand Final, I look at it like the pool room.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Oh, you've got to try you put that
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  Speaker 3: in the poolroom, you know, because you know something the
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  Speaker 3: fairly proud of, and so I felt like we to
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  Speaker 3: form in the poolroom. But more important than that was
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  Speaker 3: actually being able to share Vincent's story because I didn't know. Honestly,
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  Speaker 3: when we first did the cover, I had no idea
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  Speaker 3: that the song was about Vincent Lengary. I mean, yes,
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  Speaker 3: I'm a little bit of a dill. A lot of Australians,
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  Speaker 3: I think just thought the song was about super annuation
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  Speaker 3: and so to have vincent story told with his voice
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  Speaker 3: in it as well. We spoke to the Gringy community
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  Speaker 3: and the Lengarry family and they're all enthusiastically supported using
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  Speaker 3: Vincent's voice in that. So for me, that was the
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  Speaker 3: real team well.
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  Speaker 2: From the pool room to pajama. You are, of course
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  Speaker 2: back in the Northern Territory just a couple of weeks
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  Speaker 2: away on Friday, the ninth of April April. Zachari Fielding
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  Speaker 2: and Michael Ross from Electric Fields. It is great to
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  Speaker 2: speak with you both this morning and yeah we look
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  Speaker 2: forward to seeing you in the Northern Territory in a
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  Speaker 2: couple of weeks time.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you for you there.