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ABC News
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- ABC News
Drifting Clouds will play at the NIMAs in 2025
This week's Feature Artist doubles up as our 2025 NIMAs Competition winner. Taking out the Unearthed competition winning spot to play at the National Indigenous Music Awards (NIMAs), put your hands together for… Drifting Clouds Meet the artist who only has one song out, but hundreds of thousands of views online, tens of thousands of monthly listeners on streaming services, multiple triple j staff five star reviews on the Unearthed website and a follow from the Troye Sivan (!!!) Project of Yolngu musician Terry Guyula, this force of nature first caught our attention through his debut upload just a few weeks ago. Singing in his first language, Liyawulma'mirr-Djambarrpuyngu his song 'Bawuypawuy' is not only closely aligned to who he is as an artist but ultimately, who he is as a person. Blowing us away with its uniqueness, character and charm, it rained in multiple glowing reviews on the triple j Unearthed website amongst plenty of stars also. It's a project rooted in intentionalism. Creating music for his background and story 'who I am, where I come from,' Drifting Clouds exists to 'make people feel love, power, spiritual' and above all… 'happy'. With plenty of live experience under his belt, Drifting Clouds is more than ready to enchant the NIMAs audience with his magic. It's the event that brought Thelma Plum to tears in 2023; 11 years after winning the triple j Unearthed competition to play at the event, she won the award for Album Of The Year . Who knows, maybe Drifting Clouds could be at the start of writing a similar story? We can't wait to watch history in the making! For more info about the NIMAS head here.
ABC News
06-06-2025
- Entertainment
- ABC News
Wild One: Drifting Clouds - Bawuypawuy
Conceived in the homelands of Bunhungura, ancient landscapes combine with ancestral Songlines for this week's transcendent Wild One from Yolngu artist Drifting Clouds, 'Bawuypawuy'. Drifting Clouds is the solo project of Terry Guyula, who draws upon an eclectic mix of musical genres, ancestral Songlines, Dreamtime stories, indigenous culture and life in community to create an inspired vision of First Nations artistry. Terry explains that his debut single 'Bawuypawuy', sung in his first language; Liyawulma'mirr-Djambarrpuyngu, a language of Yolngu Matha, 'is about the sea becoming rough and tough and also it is on the Songlines we dance and sing". The music video is directed by rage favourite Matt Sav, who skillfully captures the gorgeous natural beauty of Larrakia Country in all its dreamy 16mm glory. "It is a huge privilege to work on a project that is a songline from Terry's country' says Matt. 'I need to thank Zac who asked if I could help out and who collaborated on it from the start, and Terry for trusting me with his song. Also I want to Acknowledge and pay my respect to the Larrakia people whos country we shot the video on. 'This was my first time shooting on 16mm by myself with a super 16 bolex that my star dp Lewis Potts' dad jimmied with a lightswitch so we can power it with a V-Lock [battery]. Ghetto but functional setup'. Matt's ghetto/functional setup also translated into the set design for 'Bawuypawuy', with the whole team coming together to ensure that every piece of equipment was right where it needed to be. He explains 'we needed to prop the speakers up with something, and Zac (producer) said 'what about bricks? I have heaps of bricks at home'. I said 'I don't think we should use bricks, we need to carry them 500m across sand while the tide is moving fast. Have you carried any bricks before Zac?'. The next morning at sunrise, I ask Zac, what did you bring to prop the speakers up. He looks at me with a sheepish grin, ' Well if you look at the bts closely you can see us all happily carrying bricks across a croc infested creek as the tide is rising." "The funniest is about making this video, my director put me in the lake when it's cold season' says Terry. He also adds 'the BTS Crew makes me feel more confident by talking to me what to do and how to look at the camera."
