Iwuda is the solo project of First Nations bassist Davin Ojala. Named for the Anaiwan word for echidna, the project moves through jazz, groove, and a handful of other traditions to land somewhere bass-forward and distinctly its own.

Music for Iwuda, Ojala's debut album, was built in two halves: a run of duo compositions recorded live in single takes at Yill Lull Studio in Canberra, through the First Nations residency program Space to Create, and a set of solo sessions at Echidna Studios where Ojala layered and reshaped every bass part himself.

It's an album about searching — for cultural connection, for a way to represent himself musically. It's there in the sound too: a sparse starting point that grows the way understanding does, unevenly and never quite finished.

1. Smoke Signals
2. Lullaby for Two Basses
3. Pick Your Poison
4. What Did You Call Me?
5. A Conversation In Three
6. Reaching for More
7. Dear John
8. An Unexplainable Pain