Making music near a coal mine: “This is living”

Young First Nations musos are gaining global attention with the original songs they’re churning out from a makeshift studio opposite the remote Carmichael coalmine in central Queensland.

The traditional owners turned an old motorbike trailer into a fully equipped recording studio, with their original releases having already clocked up more than 500,000 views across TikTok and YouTube

Nathan Baira and his brother Abraham Jarrett worked together to create the studio.

 Nathan tells triplej’s Hack podcast “The thing that I love about it is that we don’t have to go all the way into the city to record our own stuff.”

“This is living. It’s home. There’s nowhere else I’d rather be.”

Listen to the podcast here.

Photo credit: ABC