Lorde Releases EP With Māori Renditions of Solar Power Songs: Listen

News Lorde Releases EP With Mori Renditions of Solar Power Songs: Listen Te Ao Mrama benefits two New Zealand-based charities By Evan Minsker September 9, 2021 Facebook Twitter Lorde (Terence Patrick/CBS via Getty Images) Facebook Twitter Lorde has released an EP called Te Ao Mrama, which collects five new recordings of songs from her new album Solar Power sung in Mori, the indigenous language of New Zealand. Lyrics were translated by Hana Mereraiha and the tracks feature background vocals from Mori singers. Special thanks to Dame Hinewehi Mohi Sir Timoti Kretu for overseeing the project, the credits note. All proceeds from the album will go to the New Zealand-based charities Forest and Bird and the Te Hua Kawariki Charitable Trust. Listen to it below. Many things revealed themselves slowly to me while I was making this album, but the main realisation by far was that much of my value system around caring for and listening to the natural world comes from traditional Mori principles, she wrote in a newsletter. Theres a word for it in te reo: kaitiakitanga, meaning guardianship or caregiving for the sky, sea and land. She continued: Im not Mori, but all New Zealanders grow up with elements of this worldview. Te ao Mori and tikanga Mori are a big part of why people who arent from here intuit our country to be kind of magical, I think. I know Im someone who represents New Zealand globally in a way, and in making an album about where Im from, it was important to me to be able to say: this makes us who we are down here. Its also just a crazy beautiful languageI loved singing in it. Even if you dont understand te reo, I think youll get a kick out of how elegant my words sound in it. Hanas translations for Te Ara Tika / The Path and Hine-i-te-Awatea / Oceanic Feeling in particular take my g-d breath away. Surrounding the release of Solar Power, Lorde has covered Britney Spears, performed in Central Park, went day drinking with Seth Meyers, appeared on Hot Ones, and was a guest for a full week of James Corden episodes. Her tour in support of the album begins in February. Read 7 Great Lorde Live Performances on the Pitch. Content This article was originally published on September 9 at 12:15 a.m. Eastern. It was last updated on September 9 at 12:24 a.m. Eastern. The post Lorde Releases EP With Māori Renditions of Solar Power Songs: Listen appeared first on Patabook Entertainment.

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