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... |
Guide Rangi
Guide Rangi and the Famous Rotorua Arawa Concert Party [ Zodiac Records New Zealand / CD - released 26/Mar/2012 ] This immaculately-recorded, digitally re-mastered CD provides a fitting audio document of the excitement witnessed at the traditional Maori Concert Party. |
Hirini Melbourne
Forest and Ocean: Bird Songs [ Viking Seven Seas / CD - released 3/Oct/2006 ] This is a mixture of both traditional Maori music and contemporary guitar backed tracks, all sung in Te Reo with real native bird call backgrounds. |
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. |
Maori Volcanics
Kia Ora [ Ode Records / CD - released 25/Jun/2007 ] The Maori Volcanics are the most successful showband to leave the shores of New Zealand. Originally recorded in 1997, 'Kia Ora' has great cultural significance. |
Moana and the Moahunters
Tahi [ Rajon Music Group / Tangata Records / CD - released 14/Jul/2006 ] Re-issue: Gold selling debut, fusing dance music with Maori sounds! |
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
Rima [ Black Pearl / CD - released 26/Sep/2014 ] Moana's fifth studio album RIMA, co-written and produced by Moana Maniapoto and Paddy Free (Pitch Black, Nga Tae, Moana & the Tribe) "All the songs on this album are inspired by people and communities who are so passionate about our land, ocean... |
DOUGLAS LILBURN
Lilburn: A Song of Islands / Aotearoa Overture / Forest / etc New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, James Judd [ Naxos / CD - released 5/Oct/2006 ] "A Kiwi legend is handsomely served by his homeland. James Judd and his New Zealand forces find an openness and an energy in the music that evokes all the majesty of that country's landscape." Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (Dec 2006) |
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. |
The Quin Tikis
The Quin Tikis: New Zealand's Premier Maori Show Band [ Sony / CD - released 26/Jun/2015 ] For the first time on CD, The Quin Tikis: New Zealand's Premier Maori Show Band. Several dozen musicians passed through the ranks of the Quin Tikis during their 10 year period during the 60s and early 70s. |
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. |
Richard Nunns / Paul Dyne / Dave Lisik
Hikoi / Journey [ Rattle Records / CD - released 27/Apr/2012 ] 'Journey' elaborates on the source material of 'Hikoi', which started life as a musical conversation between two life-long friends, Richard Nunns (taonga puoro) and Paul Dyne (bass). |