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- ↑ Listing of the Dawn Until Dusk: Tribal Song And Didgeridoo album on Discogs.com, (accessed 1 January 2015).
- ↑ Listing of the Winds of Warning album on Discogs.com, (accessed 1 January 2015).
- ↑ Listing for the Songman album on Discogs.com, (accessed 1 January 2015).
- ↑ Listing of the Coco De Mer album on Discogs.com, (accessed 1 January 2015).
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- ↑ ARIA Award previous winners. "ARIA Awards – Winners by Award – Best World Music Album". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Retrieved 12 November 2018.
