Ethnographic recordings of Tiwi song material, made between 1912 and 1981, were repatriated to the Tiwi community from the Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra in 2010. This was a moving experience for Tiwi Elders as they heard the recorded voices of great-grandfathers, parents and even their younger selves, for the first time. This work features selected recordings from that archive in a series of ‘duets’ between the ancestor and current musician/s. A defining feature of Tiwi music is that it has always been contemporary. Tiwi song texts use the first person and present tense, placing each song ‘now’, every time it is heard, so when the ancestor sings, s/he sings ‘now’.