Drought ~ Gondwanaland, from Terra Incognita

In 1994 I criss-crossed Australia, much of it across the expansive aridity of the so-called Red Centre, and all of that was sharing a '79 Holden Gemini with my travel partner. A Gemini is a sub-compact sedan. This one had no air-con, and so we trundled across the expanse with the windows rolled down, and music blasting from the stereo at just below distortion levels.

Of all the music we played, Midnight Oil, Gary Numan, The Cars, Genesis, Men at Work, nothing seemed to capture the heat, the rolling, parched terrain, the roadkill littering the shoulders in quite the way this song did.

I shot a lot of video on that trip, hours of tape shot 'meditating' from the passenger seat on the landscape and its details. Someday, I'll create a video from all those hours of tape to accompany this music.