Aonua featuring Taisha
Aonua [ Aonua / CD - released 21/Jul/2008 ] Awarded Best Maori Artist / Best Maori Female Vocalist / South Pacific Instruments with New Zealand Native Wildlife. |
Birds of New Zealand
Land and Sea Bird Calls [ Viking Seven Seas / CD ] The dawn chorus and 39 songs of land and sea birds, produced for the Department of Conservation and Radio NZ. Recorded on location, includes a 12 page colour booklet |
Brass Aotearoa
National Youth Brass Band of New Zealand [ Trust / CD - released 18/Jun/2003 ] The National Youth Brass Band is a group of some of the country's finest young brass and percussion players. In this recital they play works especially commissioned for their 'ANZAC' Tour to the UK. |
David Antony Clark & Rawiri Toia
Tribal Blood - Manawataki Maori [ Tasmantis / CD - released 12/Jul/2010 ] Around one thousand years ago, voyaging Polynesian canoes discovered a remote, uninhabited wilderness in the southern Pacific Ocean: a land with a flora and fauna unlike any on Earth... |
Gillian Whitehead
Ipu [ Rattle Records / CD ] Ipu is a poetic tale of love based on a story by Tungia Baker (translated into Maori by Wena Tait). Literally, an ipu is a gourd used to carry food and goods. Accordingly, ipu korero denotes a storyteller, someone who 'carries' stories. The ipu is... |
Hirini Melbourne and Richard Nunns
Te Hekenga-a-rangi [ Rattle Records / CD - released 10/Jun/2003 ] Highly innovative use of traditional Maori instruments, female voice, etc. Includes exclusive, fascinating video footage on companion DVD |
Hirini Melbourne and Richard Nunns
Te Ku Te Whe [ Rattle Records / CD - released 9/Apr/1994 ] This passionate and spiritual album is the definitive recording of pre-European Maori instrumental music. 'Te Ku Te Whe' has a rich and sensual musicality, which spans both its traditional ethnic source and the modern context of the performers. |
Hirini Melbourne and Richard Nunns / Remixed by Various New Zealand Artists
Te Whaiao - Te Ku Te Whe - Remixed [ Rattle Records / CD - released 3/Oct/2006 ] The 'Te Ku Te Whe' album was released in 1998 and is the definitive recording of pre-European Maori instrumental music. Now these NZ producers have taken the music a step further by remixing it for the 21st century! |
Moana & The Tribe
Wha [ Black Pearl Records New Zealand / CD - released 12/May/2008 ] The exquisite 'Wha' is an extensive collage of contemporary dub, reverential odes to heroes lost, emotive reminders about our past, and sensual love songs. |
Moana & the Tribe
Live & Proud [ Sony & BMG Entertainment New Zealand / DVD - released 5/Nov/2007 ] |
Ngati Poneke Young Maori Club
Ko Ngati Poneke Hoki Matou [ Atoll Records New Zealand / CD - released 13/Oct/2003 ] SPECIAL PRICE FOR A LIMITED TIME - These classic concert party recordings of the Ngati Poneke Young Maori Club feature solos by Witarina Harris, founder member. The recordings, dating from the late 1930s. |
Paul Walden
The Voice of Aotearoa [ Frenzy / CD - released 21/Jun/2013 ] The Voice of Aotearoa features 25 of Paul Walden's most well-known tracks. |
Prince Tui Teka
The Maori Album [ Ode Records / CD - released 25/Jun/2007 ] Prince Tui Teka is a massively important figure in the music of New Zealand. This collection of Maori songs showcases his talent fantastically. These favourites were a mainstay in his live performances and are very well known. |
Richard Nunns / Mark Lockett
Redaction [ Rattle Records / CD - released 26/Jun/2015 ] Redaction, featuring renowned taonga pūoro exponent Richard Nunns, one of our longest serving and most consistently adventurous artists, was conceived first and foremost as an art-project. |
GILLIAN WHITEHEAD
Puhake ki te rangi Richard Nunns (taonga puoro) Alexa Still (flute) / New Zealand String Quartet [ Atoll / 2 CD/DVD - released 22/Dec/2007 ] "In 1989, I heard for the first time, in a presentation given by Richard Nunns, the sounds of the taonga puoro (singing treasures), which spoke to me very strongly of the spirituality of my Maori heritage. I began working with these instruments... |
ROB THORNE
Whāia te Māramatanga Rob Thorne (taonga puoro & composition) Richard Nunns (purerehua on Waharoa & Gateway) [ Rattle Records / CD - released 10/Jan/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... |
Toni Huata
Hopukia [ Waa Huu / CD - released 29/Jun/2012 ] The fourth release from our internationally acclaimed Māori Diva includes collaborations with respected electronic NZ musician Paddy Free, and acclaimed composer and percussionist Gareth Farr. |
Toni Huata
Tomokia [ Waa Huu / CD - released 6/Jun/2014 ] 'Tomokia' is Toni Huata's fifth album and her second in the dub and electronica genre, made in collaboration with celebrated Piha musician and producer Paddy Free of Pitch Black fame. |
Toni Huata
Whiti [ Ode Records / CD - released 26/Jul/2010 ] Toni Huata's strength as a performer, style, warmth and depth as a song writer, allows her to stand confidently in Aotearoa and abroad. |
Various Artists
25 Solid Gold Maori Songs [ Viking Seven Seas / CD ] A very popular Maori selection of traditional recordings, originally released in 1973. |