Bananagun - Why Is The Colour Of The Sky

1.Brave Child of a New World 02:56
2.Children of the Man 05:08
3.Those Who Came Before 04:41
4.Feeding the Moon 03:44
5.Gift of the Open Hand 02:25
6.With the Night 04:33
7.Hippopotamusic 02:47
8.Free Energy 04:36
9.Wonder part I 02:33
10.Wonder part II 02:38

To say that the intervening 4 years since the arrival of their debut album had been tumultuous for Melbourne/Naarm’s Bananagun would be an understatement. Released during the height of lockdown in the summer of 2020, the group were forcibly “scattered” following the release of The True Story of Bananagun. Australia’s ultra-strict lockdown rules - declaring it illegal to travel beyond a 5km radius - made it nigh on impossible for the band to get together at all, with the only rehearsals requiring them to sneak past military checkpoints undetected.

Coinciding with this too was a great period of personal change for the band’s guitarist/vocalist/flautist, and songwriter Nick van Bakel.“ "I had a myriad of mountains to be crossed which was pretty challenging” he explains. “so I just cocooned into lots of spiritual side quests and soul seeking. Band members were travelling etc so it was ages before we got through the stop-start stop-start phase and regained some band momentum…”