Mixed Relations
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| Origin | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
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| Years active | 1988–1995 |
| Labels | Red Eye |
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Mixed Relations were an Australian band formed by Bart Willoughby. They played a mixture of reggae, pop, rock and jazz. Mixed Relations toured Aboriginal communities, Australian cities, Pacific Islands, New Zealand, United States, Europe, Canada and Hong Kong. The group were chosen as the closing act for the 1989 inaugural Invasion (aka Survival) Day Concerts at La Perouse, Sydney and then every Invasion Day concert until its final date at La Perouse in 1994. Their track, "Aboriginal Woman", was listed at No. 89 on the Triple J Hottest 100, 1993.
Mix Relations were a reggae, rock group formed in Sydney by Bart Willoughby on percussion, lead vocals, guitar and didgeridoo in late 1988. Willoughby had been a member of No Fixed Address, Coloured Stone and Yothu Yindi. Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, felt that Mixed Relations played "an infectious and funky hybrid of reggae, pop, rock and jazz. The band established a solid live reputation." Their debut performance was at the Aboriginal Music Festival, Darwin, in December 1988.
In August 1991 the group toured Europe and Canada. Kaarin Davies-Cassin of Green Left Weekly described their sound, which "blends syncopation and counterpoint harmony, weaving traditional Australian rhythms and melodic form with traditional and Western instruments."
In October 1992 Mixed Relations issued their debut extended play, Take It or Leave It, on Red Eye Records. Alongside Willoughby the group included Murray Cook on keyboards and bass guitar (ex-Warumpi Band, Happening Thang), Leroy Cummings on guitar, Alvin Duffin on drums and percussion (ex-Mantaka), Brenda Gifford on saxophone, piano and backing vocals, Alice Haines on vocals and percussion, Vanessa Lucas on bass guitar, violin and backing vocals (ex-Tall Tales & True). They followed with their single, "Aboriginal Woman" (February 1993), and their debut album, Love, appeared in April.The Canberra Times' Nic Haygarth opined that the album was "a concoction of joyous sounds urban and outback, indigenous and electric, with the spirit of Aboriginal culture at its core."
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