Various - Liberdade: Viva East Timor

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Mushroom

Review: Graham Reid

Worthy, well-intentioned, Australian-heavy 20-track collection from which all proceeds go to various reconstruction and education programmes in troubled East Timor.

Midnight Oil weigh in with a new song, the bristly Say Your Prayers, and the Dili All Stars (featuring Paul Stewart of Painters and Dockers, whose journalist brother was among five killed at Balibo in 75) contribute the limping and undernourished title track.

Locally interest will alight on Crowded House's lovely Hope is Coming ballad "recorded at the last demo session before the band broke up ... a refugee song."

Rounding things out are some remixes - Garbage's You Look So Fine, the Cruel Sea's Runnin' and Spiderbait's Dinnertime - along with Billy Bragg and the Blokes' live Accident Waiting to Happen which contains that great line about someone being "a dedicated swallower of fascism."

Seems an apt comment in an overview of recent Indonesian politics.