'Out of the Dark' is driven by a funky riff, powerful vocals and a rocky feel bridged with ethereal sounds featuring the boomerang and Nyikina Indigenous language. It's ultimately a song about connection and empowerment and how traumatised people often use toxic, violent and self sabotaging means to feel empowered and connected... I was inspired by the kids I've taught who are often in trouble with the law and end up in detention centres. I believe we lock away our most vulnerable people when we should be helping them heal, especially our children.

Out Of The Dark WAV

This is a live version of my song 'Mundajarra'. The song has an easy rock feel, a bit funky too, a bit country..... It's a song about people making the most of their lives and creating a good life for yourself. Mundjarra means 'people' in Nyikina language and the chorus is saying 'hurry up all you people, come here and see you can be happy and peaceful'.

Mundajarra - Live

Rise was written in a moment of fun and frivolity with that (often rare) feeling that everything’s going to be ok. It’s an anthem to all the times we fall, or feel like we are drowning, or when we’ve gone the wrong way down the wrong track, that even in these moments, we, just like the tides or the dust, will always rise again. Giving off some playful ‘Motown vibes’, Rise has that full sound of a big band complete with solid horn lines, definitive tambourine & strong backing vocals. A fun song to leave you feeling empowered and free!

Rise (Radio Edit)

Still Tea is my funky feisty response to a life time of people questioning her Aboriginality due to the colour of her skin. It’s based on a well-known saying among First Nations people; “No matter how much milk you pour in the tea, it’s still tea”.
Did you know they say the Waning Crescent phase is like the pre-menstrual phase? When we are very powerful, got no time for the BS and we are ready to call it how it is. Unlike this song, the energy is waning in this phase and though high enery\gy, Still Tea slotted with its feisty lyrics outro beckoning us all to raise our standards, pretty appropriate for this almost dark phase. 
Leading with powerful vocals, punchy horn lines and an ending that’s all soul, the song beckons us to all raise the bar to seek and expand knowledge when it comes to working and interacting with First Nations people.

Still Tea

Song For Mary

Hi I’m Monique! Stepping out as a singer songwriter after playing in cover bands for 20 years and keeping my songs stuffed in drawers…. I’m just starting to release singles under artist name ‘Stellar Moon’. 
I’m a Nyikina woman from the Kimberley and through music I’ve been learning Nyikina Nganka (language) and you’ll find it featuring in the bridge alongside the Boomerangs in ‘Out of the Dark’…. More music dropping in January. Until then I’ll try upload some live takes of songs!

Stellar Moon (Monique Le Lievre)

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