Corroboration | |
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Compilation album by Various Artists | |
Released | 2001 |
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Label | Sputnik/ Festival Mushroom |
Corroboration, or Corroboration: A Journey Through the Musical Landscape of 21st Century Australia, is a 2001 compilation album by various Australian artists which was released on the Festival Mushroom Records imprint, Sputnik. [1] It was the result of a project put together by Kurt Luthy. It brought together Indigenous and non-Indigenous musicians and bands from various genres, [2] with the majority of the songs especially written for the compilation. [3] It reached No. 92 on ARIA Top 100 Albums chart. [4]
Noel Mengel wrote in The Courier Mail that "it succeeds not just in the way it crosses genres and cultures but because of the quality of the music that results." [5] The Australian's Sandra Bridekirk gave it four stars, calling it "the most unconventional snapshot of Australian music you could get – miles further down the track than predictable Oz rock samplers". [6] Peter Lalor of The Daily Telegraph also gave it four stars, calling it "one of the more interesting "project" albums to have come from these shores." [7] In Michael Duffy's four-star review in The Advertiser he states "this album is pleasing to the ear and an important step forward in the reconciliation process". [8] The Sunday Mail called it "a work of art", saying it "mixes culture with music, heart with soul, black with white, sweet with sour". [9]
In 2002 it received an ARIA Award nomination for Best World Music Album. [10]
On 12 October 2001 SBS Television broadcast an episode of ICAM, "Corroboration", which detailed "the coming together of Indigenous and non-Indigenous musicians to record the new Festival Mushroom Records Corroboration CD". The episode was also issued as a music video of the same name, produced by Karla Grant and Darren Dale. [11]
Another track, "Back in the Shadows" by You Am I and Vic Simms, was left off the album. [12] It was withdrawn by Simms in protest against what he saw as bias in the albums promotion. [13]