This album is a Te Vaka classic - a must for any Pacific gathering. It is great to dance to but also contains some beautiful ballads.

12 MP3 Songs in this album (44:50) !
Related styles: WORLD: World Fusion, WORLD: South Pacific



Details:
Opetaia Foaâi and his group of talented Polynesian musicians and dancers have toured the world constantly since 1997 bringing to people, in more than 35 countries around the world, the sounds and sights of Polynesia in a contemporary form accessible and irresistible to all.

It has been a massive task to tour this 10 piece band and entourage to places on the other side of the world but the impact from such tours has been well worthwhile. Audiences everywhere have responded ecstatically to Te Vaka shows, throwing aside their inhibitions to dance and groove to the Pacific sounds - some have cried with emotion from the music but all have experienced something they will never forget.

Te Vaka is the first and only group of itâs kind. Although the music is contemporary, the roots are deeply in the South Pacific. Opetaia Foaâi, the songwriter for the group, writes mainly in the language of Tokelau, the Island his father is from and sometimes in Tuvaluan and Samoan. His subject matter is at times deeply personal but always about the South Pacific. He uses his music to keep alive the traditions of story telling as well as a means to ensure that the language of these small Islands is not lost.