BARIKE band of Rabaul-"Medley "1981-

This is BARIKE's very first album recorded in 1981 in Rabaul which has this hit,a medley of songs,La Bamba,This Land is your Land,Marrianne etc..
BARIKE Band existed before Computerised(digital) studios reached the shores of PNG.
In their era musicians had to be good,had to be able to play instruments manually when recording etc, where as these days,you don't have to be a musician at all, you can just walk into a computerised studio and with the click of a mouse button, magic is created ,and programmed music is waiting for your voice,a few more clicks and your voice can sound like Elvis Presley or Jamaican ragga rappers instantly.The computerised studios are disney lands where magic takes place unlike in the past where such luxury did not exist..
This first BARIKE album was was recorded using a very basic Tascam 4-Track reel-to-reel ¼ inch analogue recorder, mixing down through a 4-channel mixer with basic on-board effects and equalization to a ¼ inch 2-track tascam stereo reel-to-reel master recorder.Sound Engineer Greg C Seeto would do many takes and mix-bounce these to two-track, back to 4-track and continue overdubs until satisfied. Most of the tracks at the time were recorded raw [no fx and compression, etc.] Because he was a musician, the rest of the tricks and good output of the final production of those early recordings was a result of his creative imaginations-Recorded in Rabaul at Greg Seeto's Sound Stream studios which later became Pacific Gold Studios in 1983.Sound Stream was the first commercial studio that existed in PNG.Gov't NBC studios were also involved in recording.

[@ribatlawrence2890]

2023 and Barike Music still lives...and will live on forever❤

[@marxtova3987]

Barike is just too good. I listen too often to the songs of this great band from the land of the unexpected.

[@lloydbera4144]

Agree, Iam a Solomon Islander and this album reminds me of my uncles when they will play this barike album day and night. I was a child during the 80's but i can still remember all the songs in the album. Barike Band you are the best.... you rock the solomons and no one will deny that........

[@paultaumikjnr]

LATE JOHN WONG AND BARIKE BRINGS BACK MEMORIES OF YESTER YEARS.....................RECALLS MY MIND BACK TO 1980s and 1990s the BEST

[@andysikapu6286]

No PNG music of today can match those of early 80s. I am from Solomon Islands and a student Sepik Ag College mid 80s. Barike really rock PNG that time... recall of those times

[@lawrenceribatbunbunjr817]

Only Barike/Tarikana can play live music just like this!!!
Hail BARIKE!!! \,,/ your music lives on......

[@mikepepi4149]

Lawrence Ribat Bunbun Jr

[@ribatlawrence2890]

​@@mikepepi4149oi chief😅

[@nalancehandle]

Oh what a song..and a collection of best hits

[@martinguenda6922]

I like that musik bring back good old days

[@Goldhitz]

Komnairima you are absolutely spot on-the era of great talents is definitely gone,today's musos just can't get it together,they just can't.

[@augustineminimbi5668]

Goldhitz this is absolutely great stuff. I am not old enough to remember the early days of Barike so this is a huge eye-opener. I have almost given up on my generation's music simply because they do not have the musical genius and vocal ability that these bands possessed. Thanks very much for your work in keeping PGS music alive. PGS>CHM.

[@Goldhitz]

Augustine,thanks for your positive feedback..Good to see youngsters like you appreciate old music that were recorded with pure talents,not computers like todays music.

[@ludahhano9173]

this is beautiful. it was during my high school days that it caught my attention

[@jameslopon7067]

Too Good, Barike

[@komnairima]

Great album. That era of live play is sadly gone. I have heard some popular bands play live and the sound absolutely painful. Cannot get the pitch correct, instruments out of tune, timing off and them the shout to compensate which makes matters worse. Luckily the Gospel bands can still play and sing properly. Which is a saving grace for ENB music.

[@aaronkarung]

I want to hear late john Wong music title unbelievers original album, 1970

[@warrenseeto7546]

IS PGS STILL OPERATING IN POM OR RABUAL

[@warrenseeto7546]

GR8 BAND WAS @ PORT MORSEBY SHOW ARE STILL TOGETHER IS JOHN 1/2 CHINESE

[@Goldhitz]

+WARREN SEETO ,Yes late John Wong was half Chinese-his dad was Chinese

[@warrenseeto7546]

IS GLEN 1/2 CHINESE? IS JOHN AND GLEN STILL ALIVE

[@Goldhitz]

+WARREN SEETO -
Late John Wong and Glen Low passed away a year apart from each other, John in Kavieng on May 25th, 2008 and Glen in Rabaul a year later.Both were half Chinese

[@marxtova3987]

@@Goldhitz Great respect these musicians who modernize png music.

[@DennisWanz-bp7xl]

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