KIWI POP: PUNCHING IN A DREAM
Alisa Xayalith music.
So pop good!
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 29.8.12~
BONO, JASON KERRISON, BROOKE FRASER: TURNS OUT, MOM’S FAVORITE CELEBRITIES ARE MUZOS
My Maori mom is so cute. She is never impressed by celebrities as a rule. Three she even talked about over the last three years have been, Brooke Fraser and Bono who she saw in concert live in New Zealand.
Recently she met Jason Kerrison of the Kiwi band OpShop. She says she liked his korero (chat) with her. Kerrison had moved to Northland, New Zealand and built a new home as he says he feels much safer in the North, to create and do his music. I explained to mom that Kerrison is a reality TV series judge with UB40‘s Ali Campbell and Kiwi fashion icon Rachel Hunter on the TV show New Zealand’s Got Talent. Mom was like, whose Ali Campbell? Lol!
Mom is also a big fan of singer-songwriter Joel Houston too, only because she knew his grandparents well. Only Joel’s quiet ballad songs mom likes though. Ironically, Bono’s and U2‘s raucus rocker songs, mom quite likes.
Her favorite U2 song is Beautiful Day.
[Music Jason Kerrison & OpShop's Maybe ]
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 27.8.12~
ROMANCE SUNDAYS – BROOKE FRASER & SCOTT LIGERTWOOD – SOUTH PACIFIC
Brooke Fraser (New Zealand) and Scott Ligertwood are the most read couple today.
Must be happy Sundays in the South Pacific!
[Both talented songwriters. Photos: Shane Wenzlick - Fairfax Media & Fraser-Ligertwood Entertainment]
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 19.8.12~
THE HORIWOOD TOP TEN – 15th AUGUST 2012
We are because parents, teachers, coaches, competitors and supporters all helped us us attain excellence.–NZ’s story today.
The Horiwood Top Ten today are:
2. Miley Cyrus blonde pixie cut & Guy Sebastian‘s The Climb
3. Olympics Closer – News New Zealand – Monday 13th August 2012
5. A Chinese Emperor’s love of wine
6. Sports Trends & A K1 Kiwi Star
8. Sanford Fishing – Pago Pago American Samoa trial
10. Prince Harry
My pick: A ballad of today’s youth: Lydia Cole‘s Hibernate
Harry Potter movie star’s humor: Emma Watson‘s “naked” pic not her
Humor: Hypersonic Flights Gadgets instead of Jobs in USA media newspaper’s business sections
Favorite popstar (after Miley): Carly Ray Jepsen
Most read poem: The Deep Flowers of Our Floating Island Streamed Plumes
Favorite Hollywood actor today: The Rock
Favorite Kiwi singer: Brooke Fraser
Favorite Farsi Speaker Celebrity: Sarah Shahi – USA
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 15.8.12~
SIX60 – DON’T FORGET YOUR ROOTS
Don’t forget your roots my friend, the ones who made you, the ones who brought you here.
Six60: authentic sounds of homeland hoods of NZ.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 11.8.12~
YORBA LINDA, CALIFORNIA RATTLED BY QUAKE
USA Today is reporting: “Nick Sheckel from the California Institute of Technology says a quake hit at 11:23 p.m. Tuesday and was
centered two miles east of Yorba Linda in northern Orange County. The aftershock was widely felt in the region at 2-7 on the richter scale.
If you take the 405, it’s about about 35 miles southeast of Los Angeles. No injuries or damage were reported.–source AP.
Orange County is where rockers like, No Doubt, originally hailed from as a grunge pop band. Reality TV actors stars, turned young adult authors, like Lauren Conrad also hail from the O.C too. It’s very surf beachy on the coast.
[No Doubt currently have the single, Settle Down on the radio in the US at the time of writing. Kiwi singer, Kimbra's Settle Down song, features too].
~Posted by Horiwodoblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 8.8.12~
YOU GOTTA KNOW
To understand . . . you gotta know.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 8.8.12~
SIR HOWARD MORRISON’S STAR & A LIST OF TOP MAORI NEW ZEALAND SPORTS STARS
“Whaia te iti kahurangi, ki te tuohu koe, me he maunga teitei”
Seek the treasure you value most dearly. if you must bow down at all, make sure it is to a lofty mountain.
–Ta Witi Ihimaera‘s favorite Maori proverb. As seen on Aoraki Bound website, Ngai Tahu Iwi.
Or in modern and ancient terms of Aotearoa New Zealand’s founding mothers and fathers team spirit:
be the mountain, you see.
Alright, in case you didn’t know of them, here’s a list of amazing sports stars too New Zealand is proud of – to have in our tribe of top athletes and coaching talent too.
Their news is:
Another champion All Black has scored the supreme Albie Pryor award for top Maori sportsperson for the second year in a row.
Rugby World Cup victor Piri Weepu took out the Senior Maori Sportsman title before being named Albie Pryor Memorial Maori Sportsperson of the Year at an Auckland black-tie ceremony tonight (December 3 2011).
Te Tohu Taakaro o Aotearoa is hosting the 21st National Maori Sports Awards at the TelstraClear Pacific Events Centre in Manukau.
In an article in UK newspaper The Telegraph on the eve of the Rugby World Cup final – ‘Rugby World Cup 2011: Haka leader Piri Weepu becomes the focus of attention in New Zealand’s battle’ – rugby writer Brendan Gallagher wrote:
“He not only represents the New Zealand; he is the Maori heart and soul of an All Blacks team, an individual who brings great pride in the considerable Maori hinterland of New Zealand rugby.
“The way he steadied the New Zealand ship has seen him morph into a superman figure in the adoring local press and poignancy was added to the Weepu story when he walked off the pitch after kicking seven penalties to defeat the Pumas only to be told that his much loved grandfather, Billy, had just died.
“He jetted down to Wellington and on to his home village of Wainuiomata to help organise the funeral but returned in time for the semi-final against Australia. This man is everywhere.”
All Black Hosea Gear took out the supreme prize in 2010.
The annual event – established by the late Albie Pryor – fosters, promotes and encourages Maori sportspeople in the pursuit of excellence.
The 2011 award recipients are:
ALBIE PRYOR MAORI SPORTSPERSON OF THE YEAR – Rongomaraeroa: Piri Weepu (Te Whakatohea, Ngai Tahu) – rugby
SENIOR MAORI SPORTSMAN – Te Tama-a-Tanenuiarangi: Piri Weepu (Te Whakatohea, Ngai Tahu) – rugby
SENIOR MAORI SPORTSWOMAN – Hineahuone: Lisa Carrington (Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki) – canoeing
JUNIOR MAORI SPORTSMAN – Te Tama-a-Ranginui: Trent Woodcock-Takurua (Ngapuhi) – BMX
JUNIOR MAORI SPORTSWOMAN – Te Tamahine-a-Papatuanuku: Thea Awhitu (Taranaki Tuturu) – boxing
MAORI WORLD CHAMPIONS IN TEAMS AWARDS – All Blacks, Rugby World Cup: Piri Weepu (Te Whakatohea; Ngai Tahu); Israel Dagg (Ngati Kahungunu); Richard Kahui (Ngati Maniapoto); Zac Guildford (Ngati Kahungunu); Aaron Cruden (Ngati Raukawa); Corey Jane (Ngati Kahungunu; Te Atiawa); Corey Flynn (Ngai Tahu); Hosea Gear (Ngati Porou).
MAORI WORLD CHAMPION AWARDS: Jason Wynyard (Ngati Maniapoto; Ngapuhi) – woodchopping; Luke Thompson (Ngapuhi) – tae kwon do karate; Sam Sutton (Te Arawa; Ngati Tuwharetoa) – extreme white water kayaking; Chelsea Marriner (Ngati Ruanui) – dog agility; Jayne Parsons (Taranaki) – tandam cycling; Lisa Carrington (Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki) – canoeing; Jan Khan (Ngati Rangitihi) – lawn bowls.
MAORI WORLD CHAMPIONS IN TEAMS AWARDS: Reuben Te Rangi (Ngapuhi) – 3 x 3 basketball
MAORI SPORTS MEDIA AWARD – Whakapaaoho Reo o Hinepukohurangi: Maori Television/Te Reo – 2011 Rugby World Cup Final
MAORI SPORTS COACH – Te Maru o Tumatauenga: John Love (Te Atiawa) – softball
MAORI SPORTS TEAM – Nga Ika a Whiro: Jason and Karmyn Wynyard (Ngati Maniapoto, Ngapuhi) – Jack ‘n’ Jill Saw
MAORI UMPIRE/REFEREE – Te Aratiatia: Miah Williams (Ngati Tamatera; Ngati Hako) – touch
DISABLED MAORI SPORTSPERSON – Te Toihuarewa: Jayne Parsons (Taranaki) – tandem cycling
MAORI SPORTS ADMINISTRATOR – Maui Tikitiki-a-Taranga: Tony Kemp (Te Atiawa) – rugby league
The Maori Sports Awards – our people, our fair players, our passion, privilege, pride of place – List.
[Athletes pictures: John Love (softball coach - Marist). Jason Wynard & Friends, Bay of Plenty Times & Northern Advocate. Reuben Te-Rangi, Basketball NZ. Maiah Williams (referee touch rugby - Thames Valley Swamp Foxes). Rotorua Daily Post. Hosea Gear - Hosea Gear Blogspot Blog. Tony Kemp THC.co.nz. Jayne Parsons - Zimbio. Luke Thompson - Getty/ Zimbio. Lisa Carrington, Wanganui Chronicle.
Music: Mr Chris Knox, Not Given Lightly, Ms Hollie Smith & Don McGlashan Bathe in The River, from the movie No.2. And the original, Maori pop superstar, homegrown boy - Sir Howard Morrison complete with crazy cool Kiwi fans.
[Photo: Sam Sutton, Honza Lasco Washington - extreme white water canoeing snap shot - Team Hydraulics blog].
Alright Lisa Carrington and village friends in London, Kia Kaha & Good Luck! :)
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 5.8.12~
MAIPI DANCE CREW MAGIC – HIP HOP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP DANCERS – NEW ZEALAND
One of the meanest sports out is hip hop dance crews. It should be an Olympics sports. To train for the event, these young people have to be honed athletes as the rehearsals are both grueling and vigorous. As hip hop is the no.1 selling music on the planet, I love what these Kiwi kids are doing in this news rheel footage.
They’re on it.
My own nephew Jordan and his dance crew have been champions of this disciplined team sport in Australasia. When I was young, I was a national champ with a dance crew from Northland New Zealand in a national competition in Wellington.
When you get older, it’s heartening to see young people in New Zealand who know how to get down and dance.
We are a nation of some of the world’s best dancers too. The Maipi whanau of Huntly are the latest and the greatestst here in New Zealand to bust the art of cool on the D-Floor of Te Ao (the world’s stage). Check out their hot skills of the dance in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Clever. Disciplined. Relentless, high energy amazing.
Te Karere News has the scoop from the Hip Hop World Champs in Nevada. [With thanks to TVNZ film crews and journos].
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 3.8.12~
NZ’S PM JOHN KEY EXPLAINS WHY WAITANGI TRIBUNAL CALLS TO REVIEW ASSETS SALES IS WISE
The Prime Minister of New Zealand John Key says he owes it to the Waitangi Tribunal to consider its recommendation to hold off on the Government’s plan to partially sell state-owned assets until a claim over rights to water is resolved.
Broadcasting legend, Mr Peter Williams and Corin Dann serve the interview with the PM.
MP Hekia Parata also speaks for the PM’s government in Te Reo Rangatira (The Language of Chiefs) on the issue as well.
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 31.7.12~
SOPHIE TAUWEHE TAMAKI & PAUL BRESLIN DISCUSS THE HIKA LITE MAORI LANGUAGE APP ON KIWI TELLY
In amazing IT apps, advancement news, Sophie Tauwehe Tamaki and Paul Breslin have just walked on TV, promoting the hika lite (illumniation) language app tool for mobile phones.
The best thing. It’s free. Wow! What a useful App to all friends of New Zealand’s future direction and flows.
[Thank you].
All right, that was my Hika Elliot gets immortalized in a very cool living, life-giving way that will outlive us all - tribute nod today. :)
[Photo caption: Hika Elliot of the All Blacks performs the Haka before the International Test Match between the New Zealand All Blacks and Ireland at Eden Park on June 9, 2012 in Auckland, New Zealand. Photo by Phil Walter for Getty Images via Yahoo Sports].
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 26.7.12~
HOMEGROWN POP MUSIC ASIA-PACIFIC – YOUNG BLOOD GOES GOLD IN THE USA
In New Zealand to USA Music Achivements News: “After racing to the top of the New Zealand music charts two years ago, setting off a remarkable journey for band The Naked And Famous, their single Young Blood has been certified Gold in the US as it racks up 500,000 Stateside sales. Incredible!
As the USA is having an Asia-Pacific fetish right now, the song has become an anthem on America’s alternative rock airwaves as well as popping up on hit US television shows like Gossip Girls, games, and movies including Disney’s Prom and the cult snowboard film, Art of Flight.
Platinum sales in Australia (70,000) have also ensued for the Kiwi artists we love. Gold certification for the record in Canada (more…)
DON’T LET THEM HOLLOW YOU – OCEANIA’S DIVA HINEWEHI MOHI CELEBRATES HER MATARIKI 2012
“Don’t let them hollow you”–Stars of Mataariki song lyrics.
Diva Hinewehi Mohi, who created World history performing the Maori language at the Rugby World Cup one year in London, is having a stellar Matariki, Maori New Year celebration. Much better than last year’s.
I know this, because the video clip says so. Along with being a bit baby Kiri Te Kanawa, Hinewehi is a breast cancer survivor, loving mother a model wife, music therapy philanthropist educator too; and my favorite: a natural born comedian who is generous of spirit, when she tells her self depracating jokes, constantly. Hinewehi is phat like that. Take chances, be brave, love more is what Hinewehi teaches us as one of the finest ambassadors New Zealand has ever known.
Click on her picture (above) to celebrate Maori New Years with her and all of us horis around the world. Especially for the 20% of us who now live abroad. Mauri Ora!
Matariki is all about Aotearoa New Zealand warming the house in the shared starlight of manaakitanga (warmth of spirit from the heart). Love the potai and words of cheer! (more…)
TRAVERSING THROUGH SILOS – WE BE VISIBLE STILL
Traversing through silos
we be the invisible visible
still. Horiwood on ethnic marginalization with online algorithisms censorship gatekeeping. Look out!
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific.
SAXOPHONE & UKELELE OF NEW ZEALAND – ARDIJAH’S WATCHIN U
Watchin U 2. ;)
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 3.4.12~
BIC RUNGA – SUPREME FOLK STYLED KIWI POP MUSIQUE
A journey of Bic Runga (track by track) into Belle: the album – reveals a new pulse with the songstresses unique folksy-pop music sound.
She’s a little bit like an atomic clock. Accurate in pin pointing what time it is culturally – through her guitar-stringed honey-souled, South Pacific eyes. I’ve always appreciated Bic and her whanau’s (family’s) song writing talents.
Good Love track: co-written by Dan Hume. Complex chord changes, modulating melody. “It’s about looking for the real thing.”
Hello Hello track: happy melody. Up energy.
If You Really Do track: A love song about a “relationship is about trying and about being resolute in continuing to try.”
Okay, there’s the vibe of three tracks. More at Stuff.Co.NZ.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 13.3.12~
HOMEGROWN 2012 MUSIC FESTIVAL MONTAGE – EDITING: MARK & NATE OF ADVENTURE ARTISTS
Start again, Start again. Turn around don’t you come back this way. I hold my grounds, never take your judgement–Kiwi song lyrics.
Right now I’m listening to Iva Lamkum of Melting Pot Music performing with Sola Rosa at the Homegrown Music Festival 2012 that went down in Poneke, Wellington City.
The clip was shared by a German friend who is absolutely in love with the Kiwi groovy vibe of concert music. Yep… press play to get Kiwi hood-iry.
Video edited by Mark & Nate: Band link Sola Rosa. This is how we roll in Aotearoaland.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 28.2.12~
FRAYED [LIVE@THELAB] – THE NAKED AND FAMOUS
Kiwi pop: Frayed song, writers: The Naked and Famous. Live@TheLab.
Gotta love the Kiwi kids who throw around sound as structured organized noise to create Kiwi music as sonic art within ‘The Fridge.’ This is the sound of NZ pop. Dramatic, intense, imploring… Swish!
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 28.2.12~
PART OF ME – BOH RUNGA & STELLAR*
Always recognise your soul–Stellar*
Part of Me, a ballad written by Boh Runga and the band *Stellar still “works for me.”
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 24.2.12~
COMMUNICATE ROCK MUSIC – THE FEELERS OF NEW ZEALAND ROCK!
Gotta have some good The Feelers songs cranking on a Hollywood blog.
The DNA of Peace is always found in communication with Above, The Earth and perhaps the most important gift of all People.
My rock guitarist friend from Argentina & France who sports a “M.A.O.R.I” tattoo, is totally hooked on listening to The Feelers. That’s a good sign!
Let’s groove.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 13.2.12~
THE FEELERS – BLUE SKIES
Filmed on location in Rarotonga, here’s Kiwi band The Feelers with song, Blue Skies.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 5.2.12~
ICONIC MAORI-KIWI REGGAE, HERBS’ LONG AGO & SIR PETER BUCK’S VIKINGS OF THE SUN NEW ZEALAND TRIBUTE ART
New Zealand’s history is rich. Our cultural lore tells of vikings of the Sun who chartered a course to Aotearoa New Zealand over a thousand years ago. Te Rangihiroa, Sir Peter Buck, a Yale associate, wrote of Moriori and Maori adventurous discoveries in the South Pacific.
It is a history New Zealand and true friends of New Zealand are most proud of. Lest we forget. It was Long Ago. Hall of Famers, Maori reggae band Herbs wrote an iconic song about it for the New Zealand pop music charts once. Here’s that song as a tribute to our founding fathers and mothers gifts of navigation to the South Pacific and Asia-Pacific.
Their culture is the longest standing culture of New Zealand. In Herbs music, the opening sound (in the extended version of the song Long Ago) is our distinct sound in the South Pacific. A cultural treasure, very spesh.
Love it! A reminder of how wonderful New Zealand has been culturally for centuries of our ocean navigating peoples, New Zealand’s shared history of Kiwi citizens as one people.
[Photo: Moriori history - Matene Totara Te Retimana left, with famous Maori scholar and global ambassador, Te Rangi Hiroa - Sir Peter Buck. Photo's owner: Steven Retimana, Moriori and Ngati Whatua Maori].
~Posted by Horiwoodblog, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 5.9.12~
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