Music Spotlight: A songman from the Gulf. A flamenco guitarist from Barcelona.

Ngulmiya Nundhirribala comes from Numbulwar, a coastal community in Arnhem Land on the Gulf of Carpentaria — just 55 kilometres west of Groote Eylandt, where his mother's family is from.

This is Gulf country talent on the world stage.

And what a talent. Ngulmiya is a traditional songman and ceremony leader — just as his father and grandfather were before him. His singing style has developed over thousands of years, largely in isolation in one of the most remote corners of the planet. The result is a voice that's been described as nothing short of godlike. The respected UK world music magazine Songlines called him the purest, strongest and most impressive Australian Indigenous voice heard since the late, great Gurrumul. That's about as high as praise gets.

Ngulmiya is a true global ambassador for his culture, he's recorded with the Budapest Art Orchestra, worked with North Indian classical musicians in Japan, and collaborated with a Balinese gamelan in Bali. The man takes the songs of Arnhem Land and finds the threads that connect them to the whole world.

And his latest journey took him all the way to Spain.

The album is called 'Catalunya' and it's a stunning 14-track collaboration with celebrated Barcelona-based flamenco guitarist Pau Figueres. Two traditions from opposite ends of the earth. The ancient ceremonial songs of Arnhem Land, sung in Wubuy language, woven together with the passion and fire of Spanish flamenco guitar.

On paper, it shouldn't work. In reality, it flows like a dream.

And on the album, singing backing vocals beside him, is his own son, Nayurryurr. The songs moving to the next generation, exactly as they always have — just with a wider stage than ever before.

That's the thing about Ngulmiya. He's shown that culture isn't fragile. It doesn't need to be hidden away to be protected. In fact, the opposite is true — when it's shared with respect, it grows stronger. It travels. It connects people who don't share a word of the same language but understand each other completely the moment the music starts.

From leading the Red Flag Dancers, driving the community's own Numburindi Festival, performing with Yilila and inspiring the young people of Numbulwar to take pride in their culture and to the stages and studios of Europe. A voice thousands of years in the making, carrying our region's songs to the world.

Find 'Catalunya'. Put your headphones on. And listen to what happens when Arnhem Land meets Spain.