RECORD LABEL & CULTURAL FOUNDATION — SINCE 2004
With music we talk in a common language - one talk.
— SORU ANTHONY SUBAM, SANGUMA BAND, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
For over 20 years, Wantok Musik has worked alongside communities across the Pacific to record, preserve, and share the music, languages, and cultural knowledge at risk of being lost.
WHAT'S ON
Live performance and releases from across our region
TIMOR LESTE
Feto nia Lian, Feto nia Istoria
OCT
30
Launch concert
Dili, Timor-Leste
Fundacao Oriente
NOV
20
Album Launch concert
Melbourne Recital Centre
Melbourne
NOV
21
Album Launch concert
Riverside Theatre, Parramatta
Sydney
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SOLOMON ISLANDS
Na Ainamae na Totoraha
NOV
13
SingSing Bilong Wan Solwata
National Museum, Auditorium
Honiara, Solomon Islands
NOV
14
Malaita Day Celebration,
Auki Showgrounds, Auki
SingSing Bilong Wan Solwata
More shows coming in 2027...
WHERE WE'RE FOCUSED
Five priorities we're building the next decade around.
01
Climate & cultural continuity
Artist-led music and storytelling that document lived climate realities and preserve cultural knowledge under threat from displacement.
02
Archiving & cultural memory
Community-governed recording of ancestral songs, chants and oral histories, in ethical partnership with PARADISEC. Communities keep IP and access.
03
Women's creative leadership
Women-led songwriting, recording, technical training and oral history projects — moving from workshops to released records and mentoring others.
04
Ethical record label & artist development
A structured pathway from community participation to international release, distribution and touring — artists retain 100% of their own IP.
05
Cultural diplomacy & global engagement
Connecting artists, communities and institutions across the Pacific and Australia through respectful, reciprocal creative exchange.
60+
Recordings
7
regions — Timor-Leste, Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Tonga & First Nations Australia
2025
Inspire Art Award
42
Career Pathways generated
Support Wantok Musik
Founded in 2004 as a not-for-profit record label, Wantok Musik Foundation has grown into one of the most trusted cultural organisations working across Australia, Melanesia and the broader Indo Pacific. We have produced more than 60 recordings by artists including Frank Yamma, George Telek, Emily Wurramara, Kutcha Edwards, Ngaiire, Radical Son, the Vanuatu Women's Water Music and many others. We have toured artists to the 2012 London Olympic Games, WOMADelaide, WOMEX, the Sydney Opera House, and on tour across Europe, India and the Pacific.
"For over two decades, we have built deep connections across Australia, the Pacific and further afield"
Across the Indo-Pacific, global pressures—rising sea levels, aging elders, and youth migration—threaten local cultures, languages, and traditions. Wantok Musik Foundation, with 30 years of community trust, seeks philanthropic partners to support community-led cultural preservation. Investing now means deepening impact: safeguarding music, storytelling, and knowledge, and empowering women’s leadership and participation. Culture is not optional; it’s the foundation of identity, wellbeing, and resilience.
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Seth Jordan
Songlines Magazine, UK
“Wantok Musik continues to be one of the most creative labels for showcasing the continually developing talents of many Australian Indigenous musicians, as well as Melanesian-Polynesian artists. Always warmly produced, their albums are rhythmically adventurous, occasionally challenging, often heartbreakingly beautiful and deeply moving. The Wantok roster is an essential musical window into this unique region of the world.”
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