Whāia te Māramatanga
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ROB THORNE
Whāia te Māramatanga
Rob Thorne (taonga puoro & composition) Richard Nunns (purerehua on Waharoa & Gateway)
[ Rattle Records / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 10 January 2014
Whāia Te Māramatanga is a musical passage of identity and connection. A journey of knowledge through action and practice, reclaiming the past for a stronger future, while joining the two in a place that is here, and a time that is now. A re-acquaintance of ancestor with descendent. These ancient practices and their sounds are not just revisited, they are actively reborn, reworked, and reunited with a living approach to the potential of the sound they produce. Acoustic energies that encourage, empower, enliven and entertain. Powerful, magical, intentional. As past and future become one in the present, time dissolves in a transcendental celebration of unity. All are one. Now.
"…the result is haunting, hushed, and works a treat late at night, when the clamour of the day has diminished." - Gary Steel, Metro
"Astonishing as they are these three spacious, beautifully textured, almost ritualistic pieces - Whaia Te Maramatanga, Whakawhiti and Pursue Enlightenment - have been created using only various wind and percussion instruments and the whirling purerehua. What Jorge Reyes did for Mexican culture with pre-Hispanic instruments, Thorne is doing for tangata whenua - calling up their ancestors." - Mike Alexander, Sunday Star Times
"… ambient, often beautiful and spare music that exists beyond time as past and present join in a recording studio where these instruments and sounds are given new life for a different audience." - Graham Reid, elsewhere
Tracks:
Whāia Te Māramatanga Suite
Whakaaro (1:35)
Waharoa (3:14)
Kauhanga (4:48)
Aro (6:22)
Kore (4:42)
Tōrino (7:19)
Tīmatanga (5:10)
Whakawhiti (4:40)
Pursue Enlightenment Suite
Intention (6:30)
Gateway (5:17)
Corridor (9:09)
Attention (5:15)
Nothing (2:07)
Spiral (9:27)
Beginning (2:15)
