Traditional Maori songs have their own purpose, whether it be averting evil, grieving for lost loves or calling for the safe return of loved ones. Songs are also used to retell legends and pass deeds of famous ancestors from one generation to the next.
Traditional Maori songs have their own purpose, whether it be averting evil, grieving for lost loves or calling for the safe return of loved ones. Songs are also used to retell legends and pass deeds of famous ancestors from one generation to the next.
This unique collection of ancient Maori songs and chants, long-forgotten, are given an exciting new lease of life, hence the title "KURA HUNA" (hidden treasures).
Hineiwhakaatia
It's Time
Totara Tree
Bruces Song
Flight of the Seagulls
Blue Smoke
Fiji Time
Pupu Kauri to Mum
Kookaa Tauwhiri
Mothersline
Marumaru
Farewell.
He PouUri
Ka Pa Te Karanga
Nga Pakau O Te Hau
Somewhere Over the Rainbow / Those Red Shoes
Pacific Swing
Rangimarie
Nadi to Nasouri
Pacific Swing (2)
Purea Nei
Te Tino Rangatiratanga / Helava...
The Great Kelso Flood
Diggers Dream
High Country Shepard
Bloody Bill
Shearing's Coming Round
The Sluicers
Riding the Boundary
Old Billy Kirk
Logan Park's For Me
Student's Rubaiyat
Officer Of The...
Whirimako's album, Soul Sessions, was released on September 4th, 2006. The album records songs which were, for the first time ever, translated and recorded in te reo Maori and the first time Whirimako had recorded tracks in English.
Produced by Victor Stent and Chris Macro, Tangikahu comprises a collection of poems written by Whirimako's mother Anituatua Black and sister Rangitunoa Black and set to music composed by Whirimako and her sister, and subsequently arranged for these sessions by Joel Haines.