Ipu, by Gillian Whitehead

Ipu

by Gillian Whitehead

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Piano, cello, taonga puoro and voice. A classic album from Aotearoa.

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1.	Waka, Kowhai & Tui 10:56	buy track
2.	Waka's Love for Kowhai 09:41	buy track
3.	The Storm 11:41	buy track
4.	Aftermath 09:42	buy track

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A unique collaboration between classical, jazz, and pre-European Maori instrumental styles, Gillian Whitehead's Ipu can only have been created in New Zealand.

An ipu is a gourd, a container for carrying food and goods. Accordingly, ipu korero denotes a storyteller, someone who ‘carries’ stories. The ipu is also employed as a musical instrument. This album is also an ipu, a vessel from which flows the unique and evocative musical threads of two cultures, Maori and Pakeha.

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released May 28, 1998

Produced by Gillian Whitehead and Steve Garden
Executive production by Keith Hill
Recorded by Steve Garden at the Nelson School of Music and mixed at The Garden Shed, Auckland, 1998
Story by Tungia Baker
Translated by Wena Tait
Design by UnkleFranc

This recording was made possible with support from Creative New Zealand

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