Aotearoa - Part 1 of 2

Aotearoa is the contemporary Maori language name for New Zealand - land of the long white cloud.  It is home to the biggest ethnic Polynesian population in the world.

May wife and I had the pleasure of travelling close to 5000 kilometres on the roads, trails and waters of Aotearoa including North Island, South Island and Stewart Island. Spectacular view scapes were literally everywhere. Maori is the second official language and the people are very proud of the land they care for.

This program is part 1 of 2 and will share some of the music we learned about on our travels.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:30

Kia Ora, you're listening to Acoustic Avenue. This is Ted Crouch, your host for the next hour on today's program presenting an international flavor for your listening pleasure. On Acoustic Avenue, we recognize with respect and gratitude that in the shoes world, the land on which we live, work, and play our music is the unceded traditional territory of this equipment. Release release 2016. Oh your ship is 2020 recording.

SPEAKER_02 4:02

And baby, what you propose? I might as well start eternity. Sitting in the dark, baby, it's an art. Bringing up the two-step on the boundary line. Gas up on the corner. Put you order. I think I've been phone. Cause you got three daughters. Who would do ya? Two sons, whoever brought us. Let me call you. All I wanna see is I'ma adequate. Mama told me I'm winna win a shaker, yeah. It's fake to love for my mistake. Cause all the ships have saved a hard lie, and I've gone fight with the knife. I had to fight on every little thing. Was lucky I could sing a door with a broken wing. Even though there's a church on every street, these kids got nothing to eat. And success feels bitter sweet on love. I know that windows come. Why you gotta jump at my money? I might as well start determining. Sitting in the top, it's enough. Bring another two steps on the boundary line. What you ought to I think of it more. Cause you got three parties with all you two sons who are overall as I'm calling you. All I wanna see is I'm an adequate. Mama told me I wanna know when I should quit, yeah.

SPEAKER_09 7:55

And as the days go by, I see them multiply.

SPEAKER_08 8:04

I can't eat, I can't sleep, cause I know they'll be watching me, descending on the breeze.

SPEAKER_09 8:18

The shadows be falling down on me. There's a black bird. Now they're on the knee. What are they waiting for? Food I have not to need. I can eat, I can see 'cause I know they'll be watching me with yellow eyes that see my throat. I don't know what I'm supposed to do. All these black birds in my car.

SPEAKER_00 12:47

In this second set, we open with back to back songs.

unknown 14:12

You have more than required.

SPEAKER_09 17:18

Should be dare to take a song. Spend some time alone. When I open my eyes, I would soon.

SPEAKER_02 18:18

All the vision I had could not compare. So maybe I'll stay for while I don't know.

SPEAKER_09 18:30

The dream she keeps calling, so I gotta go. Could tap on my window, knock on my door, the lights alone, but nobody's home. Picking up on two sits. Where do we start? Can't seem to go much.

SPEAKER_02 18:57

It's broken hard. Green in the house. Well, that's all I'm trying to do.

SPEAKER_08 19:12

Get up from the bottom.

SPEAKER_02 19:17

It's taking some time to get go. How am I gonna leave you?

SPEAKER_08 20:17

I think I'm gonna start one bit.

SPEAKER_09 20:23

That's the last wheel. So walk in the sun. So I don't feel like it's a fun we've gone, we've fallen.

SPEAKER_02 22:13

Beastie, quiet little beastie. You have to be still to stay in the gate. Beastie They don't make 'em like they used to. Let's transfer anywhere. It's recon day. Shocks different on the outside, chasing that green on the outside, doing my time on the inside. Is that us? Is that us? Is that us? Is that us? Beasty, don't wanna have to rain yet now. You leave me no choice, you got no pride out here. It's anybody's gay, even if it stitch at the start in life Sharks different on the outside, chasing that green on the other side, doing my time on the inside fray Two arrows, honey and poison. We got drunk on the news we were winning the war. Nothing tastes sweeter, it's a liquid liquor. Eyes would share from a cup and quicker quicker. And we heard you love stones and the use it's in the end. Where the falls revealed if you say nothing, nothing at all, nothing comes to play Is it up?

SPEAKER_00 24:52

Is that Welcome back to the second half of Acoustic Avenue with your host, Ted Crouch, featuring an international flavor for your listening pleasure, with music from New Zealand. This is a five-song set leading off with award-winning indie folk artist Mel Parton, and Tired of Being You from her current album Slowburn, released in 2022. Following that is headless in New Zealand, from 1985 through 1999. And a reminder that no matter what they're going through, they do not have to do it all. And we ended it with Invisible Man. Another selection from the album Iris written by Reb the Fountain. Here is Mel Parsons, Headless Chickens, written by Wolves and Reb the Fountain.

SPEAKER_02 27:20

Looks like your diary's jam-packed Of opportunities and ways to better yourself and you will. Yeah, I'll give you that. Look at all the flights in your flights at Look at all the days you're away. Well, you must really be killing it. I'm at a lunch in the lounge, okay. Schedule makes me wanna lie down. Cover my eyes with the shoe. Instagram is all about the feet. And of course, you'll do the book sit down today. What do you have to show? It's never gonna be the right time. It's the business die.

SPEAKER_03 35:51

Why am I feeling like night today? Something that means not right today. Why am I still upright today? Paranoia is all I got left. I don't know what stressed me first or how the first to its bad. But I don't fix what it feels like. Do with the voice to the back of my head, like a face that I hold this eyes. Fix it away to the holds of my eyes. Fix it a white every time I die. Fix the death every time I fall.

SPEAKER_02 40:02

Can't think of nothing else since you've been gone. Come back to harm me. Come back to my home. Street started. I was spinning another favorite song. Can't think of nothing else since you've been gone. Come back to me. Heart is racing, but I'm standing still. You need me, but you never will be careful with the stars that I leave behind me. Come back to my home. I'll be with you and it perks. Bring my windows down, I close my eyes. Hold me to now. Go to Record when they play that song. Thought I call you Shadow at the break of dawn. Feel so empty since you began to get it.

SPEAKER_12 45:13

Same as before, left it to me. Greenway valet feel as free. Aim listening. Got a problem. Wants to be gone.

unknown 47:07

Same as before. Left it to me.

SPEAKER_12 47:18

We love his free. We love SK. A lesson day.

SPEAKER_02 47:55

The way that you avoid the feel, and I know how quickly you see the setting sun. You'll be forever in the distance.

SPEAKER_12 48:12

The horizon doesn't wait for anyone.

SPEAKER_02 48:19

You keep telling me the life keeps going on. You never seem to know ever what you want and tread this water that you swim against that you can't erate every time.

SPEAKER_12 48:58

No absolutely on its sudden ground. Till I find that it's too late for me to know forgiving place.

SPEAKER_02 49:32

So am I what you want? You can't fly from the past you can raise that you can raise every time. So I'm coming in from the dark. I'm coming in from the dark. I'm coming in from the dark. I'm coming in from the dark. Try and take my soul. Try and take my soul. Try and take my soul. Try and take my soul.

SPEAKER_07 51:11

Through the shadows, we can see my mind and vibe come true. All in each and warriors bringing the truth. Brothers that put their hands in the soil and toil. For the people, are you ready to bring in the Kai to the next level, through the next phase? I've got another page for you, people to read, yo. This is the audible-driven way of doing things. We get outside, I'm all on it through the garden, Joe. Get back, I feel like a real man. Sweatin' roll it down your back and get back the real plan. You think the internet's gon' make your bread stun. Good luck with that plan. Get ready to bring the ride. Get back inside. Put your hands inside the soul and get ready to vibe. Oh, you gonna live or why you gonna die? No, you gonna bring the people pride? No, you're gonna bring a mind. Do you understand humanity? Humanity is my nationality. Do you understand the pride of the people? Humanity is trying to make it equal. It's the mission of the soul, warriors, soul warriors, soul vibe, soul slider, soul brother from the Pacific and vibe up. So across the wall and geographically find my way home.

SPEAKER_02 52:13

Try and take my soul, try and take my soul. Try and take my soul. Try and take my soul. Try and take my soul. Try and take my soul. Try and take my soul. Try and take my soul.

SPEAKER_07 52:43

Come back, earthy brother, earthy soul, soul, brother, soul, vibes, whole vision, soul, sister, camp upon the next vibe. All the one means love to the real world. Now we bring the mama to the people, bring the power through. It's the energy provided in your soul, through the wisdom that you learn upon the journey in your life, yo. It's the people of the clouds, it's the people speaking loud. Geographically, this other ground speaking out proud. It's the way that we provide the beast, provide the people with the things that we know, things that we mean. We speak straight love, we speak straight soul, and open up the minds of the truth and grow. It's a bitch in the bug, it's the bitch and the buttons, the bitch and the bug, it's the bitch and the buttons, it's the bitch and the love, it's the bitch and the bug, it's the bitch and the bug, it's the bitching on the stone, we get a stone more, we get a stone five, so five up, stone cross the phone, to pick the five up, so they cross the wall and be a black way home.

SPEAKER_02 54:06

I take my soul, I take my soul, I take my soul, I take my soul, get I stole, I've done that soul, I stole, I don't know. Give it up, put it on the game and that's it.

SPEAKER_00 55:19

This is Ted Crutch, signing off, and from my heart to yours, stay safe and love the ones you're with. Peace. Cook's job, key order.

unknown 56:12

Let's go back and put it in trouble, but to be able to pet with people pet, back with baby pet spectacle pet and grave to babble pet with paper pet, back with baby pet, spectacular pet and wave to baby pet the peckle dable. I could better be to babble pet the back of the paper pet. I think that's the two that you have to fight, but