Toiapiapi

by Hirini Melbourne & Richard Nunns

Toiapiapi cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1 January 1991
  • Label: Te Whare Whakahirahira
  • Country: New Zealand
  • Length: 1:03:08
  • Community rating: 3.9/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A group of musicians crowded into the Radio Aotearoa studio in Papatoetoe to record this suite of original M膩ori songs, funded by the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council. Issued as a cassette with an accompanying booklet for schools, it presented many taonga puoro on record for the first time, alone and together.

Genres

Descriptors: traditional, folk, acoustic, choral, storytelling

Tracklist

  1. Whitiwhiti Ao Turoa (3:12)
  2. Waka Kapua (3:49)
  3. Hinemoana (2:57)
  4. Rangi Paihuarere (3:55)
  5. Toiapiapi (4:56)
  6. Karanga Weka (1:01)
  7. Toroa (3:03)
  8. Kakapo (1:12)
  9. Waitangi Te Tiriti (3:14)
  10. Te Kokota O Parengarenga (3:25)
  11. Nga Roimata (3:17)
  12. Tangi Mokemoke A Raureka (1:48)
  13. Pouri Nei Te Rangi (2:50)
  14. Taku Putorino (feat. Hinewehi Mohi) (2:58)
  15. Porotiti (2:32)
  16. Te Hau Te Wai (2:30)
  17. Rongomai (3:02)
  18. Purerehua (2:07)
  19. Te Ngu O Taku Ihu (2:10)
  20. Pu Kapua (2:43)
  21. Kia Kotahi Mai (3:12)
  22. Taku Putorino (3:03)

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