We are Wantok Musik.
We preserve and celebrate music, art and stories of First Nations peoples.
Our mission is to transform lives by sharing stories that elevate traditional languages and promote pride in place.
For over 20 years, Wantok Musik Foundation has worked alongside communities across the Pacific to record and share music, languages and cultural knowledge at risk of being lost.
As both a record label and cultural organisation, Wantok supports artists, mentors cultural workers, and creates pathways for stories and songs to move from local ground to regional and international audiences.
Current projects
Music for Change: Pacific Women
WMF has officially commenced a women-led music and storytelling project supporting women’s leadership, creative
expression and skills development across the Pacific.
Bougainville & Tonga - 2026
Feto nia Lian, Feto nia Istoria
Her Voice, Her Story
A two-week audio-visual recording residency
celebrating and preserving women’s cultural knowledge in Timor-Leste. Building on the
award-winning first phase of Hamoris Lian Timor, this next chapter focuses entirely on
women’s voices - their songs, stories, and leadership.
Na Ainamae
na Totoraha
A two week audio-visual program to record, preserve, and promote the rich oral
traditions, chants, dances, and ancestral knowledge of the ‘Are’are and Lau peoples of
Malaita, Solomon Islands
For over two decades, we have built deep connections across Australia, the Pacific and further afield.
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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.”
"Honiara (Solomon Islands) has been through a lot of battles and scars in the past years, from the recent riots to the pandemic... and at times we forgot what it was like to truly have unity and calmness. The concert reminded us of a different calmness, one that will last forever. This was not just entertainment. This was healing to the soul.”