The debut album from TE KAAHU (Em-Haley Walker) is not the sound of the Kiwi pop princess we have come to adore through her Theia project.
It’s a message of love and peace, sung entirely in her mother tongue, te reo Māori.
A tribute to her tūpuna wāhine (female ancestors) and her haukāinga (home) in the Waikato, the record’s nine waiata (songs) drape over you like a feathered cloak, clear proof of the transcendent power of music.
Stream: TE KAAHU, Te Kaahu O Rangi
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