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At last, an album that dares to bring some of the popular Maori songs ever written into the new millennium. Ka Haku Au – A Poet’s Lament takes award winning songs spanning 50 years, masters the walking bass line before cleverly tripping on the offbeat. These are songs that for generations have been sung by tribes across New Zealand, in the bliss of kitchen parties and kiwi summer batches. More incredible, they are all the work of one composer, the late Kohine Te Whakarua Ponika, who couldn’t read a note of music. “She took traditional and gave it a new song but what many don’t realise is that she envisaged even more when she wrote. She heard what the songs would become and now we’ve finally been able to do it,” says Ngahuia Wade. Ka Haku Au – A Poet’s Lament, the album, is a revelation, a sonata of what Kohine Ponika knew her music could become. Maori lyrics and catchy tunes are honoured while a fusion of jazz, rhythm and blues with melting sax (Brent Turner) oozes her songs into the mainstream genre. Traditionalists be warned. This album is closer to the composer’s original vision than subsequent adaptations. So compelling was her story, a housewife who composed hits on a ukulele at her kitchen table, that it inspired a drama documentary. The album is now the documentary soundtrack, embracing soul and whispers of SKA, while rejoicing in its own unique indigenous origins. Quintessentially Maori, uniquely kiwi, it politely flips recent trends to combine contemporary music with customary instrumental. Ka Haku Au – A Poet’s Lament is the real deal, the crème de la crème of half a century brought back to the future. Engineered by Dick Reade (The Navigator, Maori Merchant of Venice, Rain of the Children), with a line-up of respected Māori artists, (Kui Wano, Rawiri Alexander) it is an overdue and irresistible twist on perceived traditional. Ka Haku Au – A Poet’s Lament, CD, compiles 10 tracks: 1. Ka Haku Au 2. Taku Meremere 3. Kua Rongorongo 4. Tōia Mai Rā 5. E Rona E 6. Ka Kimi Kau Ake 7. Poi Porotiti Atu 8. Nga Mahara 9. Aku Mahi 10. Poi Iti Poi E Download Adobe Reader to view files.. During filming, a performance or visual was created specifically for each waiata. They are not simply soundups, background music or lovely moments. Kohine wrote her life in her songs. As linguist, Dr Tīmoti Kāretu explains, she was the first to take moteatea, give it a catchy tune and bring it into the modern world – and her music spread like wildfire. The soundtrack, therefore, is a truer reflection of how Kohine Ponika envisaged her songs might one day be heard. While retaining the same rhythm and tempo, waiata now include sax, strings, and bass and have been brought into the new millennium by her whānau. Just as the songs inspired before, may they reach and teach the next generation.
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