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alika207
Ha`aha`a
USA
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 Posted - 06/03/2007 : 05:05:14 AM
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Here's a list of some of my favorites. If I think of more I'll post them later.
Te'e No'o Nei Au - Robi Kahakalau
Himene Tatarahapa - Robi Kahakalau
Tamari'i Hokule'a - Robi Kahakalau
Fa'a Hei Ta'u - Natalie Ai Kamauu
Tamahana - Te Vaka
Pate Pate - Te Vaka
I'm sorry if I have some misspellings.
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He kehau ho'oma'ema'e ke aloha.
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RWD
`Olu`olu
USA
850 Posts |
Posted - 06/03/2007 : 05:33:48 AM
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Hi Alika
I haven't heard many "polynesian" songs, but the two I have heard I like--Isa Lei and Tiare Tahiti. |
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alika207
Ha`aha`a
USA
1260 Posts |
Posted - 06/03/2007 : 06:28:43 AM
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| Oh yeah! Good ones! |
He kehau ho'oma'ema'e ke aloha.
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wcerto
Ahonui
USA
5052 Posts |
Posted - 06/03/2007 : 09:03:43 AM
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Isa Lei is a beautiful song, all the more powerful if sung instead of played only instrumentally....so poetic, kinda mournful. I love the line "sad the morrow will dawn upon my sorrow." Also love "Tofa mai Feleni" once again a very haunting tune, and feeling of sorrow. Neither are maudlin at all.
The following is from http://www.michaelfield.org/fiji34.htm
Everybody knows Fiji ’s “Isa Lei” as a tourist goodbye song, but among the Fijians themselves it carries the burden that nothing will ever quite be the same again.
The two words, isa lei, are about extreme and heartfelt vakanananu or nostalgia with emotions of loss, grief and emptiness.
“Isa Lei, the purple shadows fall,” says the song, “sad the morrow will dawn upon my sorrow, oh forget not when you are far away,
When Ratu Mara’s father Tevita Uluilakeba wrote Isa Lei in 1918 it was to say goodbye to a Tongan girl he had fallen in love with. These days, for those of us who’ve made Suva a second home, the whole place has a sadness about it, country rich in resources, talent, people and yet ensnared in a endless power struggles.
Isa Fiji .
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Me ke aloha
Malama pono,
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ArtSap
Lokahi
USA
267 Posts |
Posted - 06/05/2007 : 09:32:23 AM
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My favorite Tahitian song (and for so many others) is one entitled, "Fa`a Teni Teni", which talks about being grateful to the creator for everything you experience in life - both the joys as well as the sadness - and is usually expressed so beautifully in a dance called an "aparima".
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Art
SF Bay Area, CA / Mililani, HI
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alika207
Ha`aha`a
USA
1260 Posts |
Posted - 06/06/2007 : 3:15:37 PM
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Originally posted by ArtSap
My favorite Tahitian song (and for so many others) is one entitled, "Fa`a Teni Teni", which talks about being grateful to the creator for everything you experience in life - both the joys as well as the sadness - and is usually expressed so beautifully in a dance called an "aparima".
I have never heard that one. I will look it up. |
He kehau ho'oma'ema'e ke aloha.
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