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TELEN RODWELL IS A TASMANIAN SINGER-SONGWRITER, FILMMAKER AND SOCIAL JUSTICE ACTIVIST. His music eschews categorization with the likes of Jeff Buckley, James Morrison, Coldplay, Goyte and even Johnny Cash on the title track to his debut album, Shadowman. This is a collection of superbly crafted pop rock, by turns emotional and high-energy, haunting and upbeat, joyous and reflective. It is destined to bring this Tasmanian to far wider attention. Much of his early work has been composing and recording music with indigenous Australians in isolated desert communities, juvenile detention centres and prisons. One of his tracks, Little Mystery, was born out of workshops in the Pilbara, a scorching, primeval desert area of Australia. There, he worked with international arts and social change company BIG hART, at the epicenter of the mining boom that is gripping the nation and leaving nothing in its wake for the indigenous inhabitants. “Working in the prison, I realized how much writing