Music News - Maori tradition meets modern technology
01 January 2015 - 0 Comments
Moana & the Tribe's new album Rima has been selected as one of the ten "Top of the World" albums by UK world music magazine Songlines. An album review has been just published in the newest issue #105 of Songlines. The song Water People will also be included on the CD that accompanies the same Songlines edition. Water People was written for the international collaboration Boomerang featuring Moana & the Tribe, Breabach (Scotland) and indigenous Australian artists. Boomerang is a finalist in the Scottish Traditional Music Awards.
Rima is the 5th major album by Moana and was produced by dubmeister Paddy Free who joined Moana & the Tribe for the first time in 2013 when the band played Europe, Korea and Australia. The 11 tracks were recorded in Piha, on the shores of Lake Rotorua and in Blair Castle (Glasgow). Rima, co-written and produced by Paddy Free, has been just released into UK stores on 22 Dec 2014 and distributed through Rough Trade/Republic of Music and online through http://bit.ly/Moana_RIMA-amazonUK . The album is available via Amplifier or via iTunes or you can buy a physical CD via http://www.marbecks.co.nz/; http://www.mightyape.co.nz/; http://www.amplifier.co.nz/; http://www.jbhifi.co.nz/.
Ever since the
arrival of her genre-bending 90s band The Moahunters, veteran Maori songstress
Moana Maniapoto has been one of New Zealand's most visible international
musical ambassadors. Her recent tri-cultural collaboration Boomerang, with both
Australian Aboriginal and Scottish musicians, broke new ground. This latest
album of all-original material should further expand her global audience.
The opening Whole World's Watching combines socio-political lyrics with a
dub-reggae aesthetic and the song's cheeky video is a must-see. Several tracks
are in Maori language - most notably Upokhue and Ko Au - with Moana and her
sister Trina blending their sweet harmonies with a male haka team's
mock-ferocious chants. Backed by her solid Tribe band, the key input of
producer and keyboard player Paddy Free (of Pitch Black and Salmonella Dub)
deserves special mention, as his creativity provides Moana with a freshened-up
sound, successfully binding ancient Maori traditions and waiata (song) to 21st
century technology.
The Boomerang-inspired track Water People, features traditional Aboriginal
songman Djakapurra Munyarryun, along with Scottish bagpipers Calum MacCrimmon
and James MacKenzie from folk group Breabach. Kiwi singer Don McGlashan (The
Muttonbirds) guests on House of Strife, while the voices of blues singer
Grant Haua and Maori broadcaster Scotty Morrison combine with Moana on the
closing soul-drenched track Not Alone, lifting it to lofty heights. Dedicated
to the environment, the international sisterhood and her late father, Moana'sRima makes for some mighty fine Pacific listening.
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