KIA KAHA

LINK

SONGWRITER: MAHORI SONG'S

COUNTRY: NEW-ZELAND

ALBUM: KIA KAHA

LABEL: LINK/SUN GENERATION RECORDS

GENRE: POP ROCK/GOSPEL

YEAR: 2017

A uniquely local expression of worship from Aotearoa, NZ. This project is about hope, for Māori and non-Māori alike. It is a karanga (call) to who we as a nation are becoming as we awaken to the narrative of our land. It is a hope that heralds us to our ancestors, to remember, honour, and engage with the story and cultural collision that will forever shape our creativity in the world. Kia kaha, kia māia, kia manawanui.

When I first heard the dream of the Huia, I knew that my life would never be the same. It sounds so dramatic, but my life since that point has drastically changed. The community that I am part of has been on this journey of cultural reconciliation for a while now and in light of the journey we have released an album!

This album has come out of an incredible journey of Māori and non Māori figuring out what it means to be here and what it means to be in partnership. To be fair my people Tangata Tiriti* have needed the most learning and need still to learn what it means to be here. These songs are more than nice melodies and good ideas, they come out of a journey, through and by God towards te ao Māori, towards land and sea and towards cultural hope and reconciliation.

These songs came out of a desire to see Māori be all that they were meant to be...

to see Samoans become all they were meant to be...

to see Pākehā become all they were meant to be...

Oh not my will but yours be done

Reveal the will of the father

Oh not my will but yours be done

Reveal the will of the father

Reveal the will of the father

Reveal the will of the father

I trust, I trust, I trust you lord

I trust you know it all for me

I trust, I trust, I trust you lord

I trust you know it all for me

Kia kaha, kia māia, kia manawanui

Be strong, be steadfast, be willing

Kia kaha, kia māia, kia manawanui

Be strong, be steadfast, be willing

Oh not my will but yours be done

Reveal the will of the father

Oh not my will but yours be done

Reveal the will of the father

Reveal the will of the father

Reveal the will of the father

I trust, I trust, I trust you lord

I trust you know it all for me

I trust, I trust, I trust you lord

I trust you know it all for me

Kia kaha, kia māia, kia manawanui

Be strong, be steadfast, be willing

Kia kaha, kia māia, kia manawanui

Be strong, be steadfast, be willing

Kia kaha, kia māia, kia manawanui

Be strong, be steadfast, be willing

Kia kaha, kia māia, kia manawanui

Be strong, be steadfast, be willing

Be strong, be steadfast, be willing

Be strong, be steadfast, be willing

You are more than enough for me

You're more than enough

You are more than enough for me

You're more than enough

You are more than enough for me

You're more than enough.

AVÔHAI

ZÉ RAMALHO

COMPOSIÇÃO: ZÉ RAMALHO

PAÍS: BRASIL

ÁLBUM: ZÉ RAMALHO

GRAVADORA: SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT

GÊNERO: MPB

ANO: 1978

Avohai é um neologismo criado pelo cantor e compositor brasileiro Zé Ramalho, e consiste na aglutinação das palavras “avô” e “pai”.

De acordo com a história divulgada na biografia do artista – “Zé Ramalho: o poeta dos abismos” – esta palavra teria surgido durante uma experiência com drogas alucinógenas.

O avô de Zé Ramalho teria desempenhado um importante papel paterno para o cantor, que perdeu o pai biológico enquanto ainda era criança.

Na interpretação de Zé Ramalho, o “avôhai” é a sabedoria que consegue passar por gerações, seja de avô para pai, pai para filho, ou mesmo avô para filho.

Zé Ramalho é o álbum de estreia solo do cantor brasileiro Zé Ramalho.

O álbum conta com a participação do tecladista Patrick Moraz, da banda inglesa Yes, na faixa "Avôhai". "Avôhai" foi composta em homenagem ao avô de Zé, que o adotou após o pai morrer afogado dois anos depois de seu nascimento. Ramalho diz que a inspiração para a música veio após uma experiência com cogumelos alucinógenos na fazenda de uns amigos. Ele olhou para o céu e viu a "sombra de uma gigantesca nave espacial", e uma voz disse "Avôhai" em seu ouvido. Ele estava na fazenda para realizar um estudo para a faculdade. "Avôhai" é uma junção das palavras "Avô" e "Pai". Esta foi a primeira das suas canções que Zé ouviu no rádio, quando estava num táxi. 

Um velho cruza a soleira

De botas longas, de barbas longas

De ouro o brilho do seu colar

Na laje fria onde quarava

Sua camisa e seu alforje de caçador

Oh meu velho e invisível

Avôhai

Oh meu velho e indivisível

Avôhai

Neblina turva e brilhante

Em meu cérebro, coágulos de sol

Amanita matutina

E que transparente cortina

Ao meu redor

E se eu disser que é mei sabido

Você diz que é mei pior

E pior do que planeta

Quando perde o girassol

É o terço de brilhante

Nos dedos de minha avó

E nunca mais eu tive medo da porteira

Nem também da companheira

Que nunca dormia só

Avôhai!

Avôhai!

Avôhai!

O brejo cruza a poeira

De fato existe um tom mais leve

Na palidez desse pessoal

Pares de olhos tão profundos

Que amargam as pessoas que fitar

Mas que bebem sua vida

Sua alma na altura que mandar

São os olhos, são as asas

Cabelos de avôhai

Na pedra de turmalina e no terreiro da usina eu me criei

Voava de madrugada e na cratera condenada eu me calei

E se eu calei foi de tristeza você cala por calar

E calado vai ficando só fala quando eu mandar

Rebuscando a consciência com medo de viajar

Até o meio da cabeça do cometa

Girando na carrapeta no jogo de improvisar

Entrecortando eu sigo dentro a linha reta

Eu tenho a palavra certa

Pra doutor não reclamar

Avôhai! Avôhai!

Avôhai! Avôhai!

TILL THE END OF TIME

BECK ROBIN

SONGWRITERS: Buddy Kaye & Ted Mossman

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: THE GRATE ESCAPE

LABEL: HER ROYAL MAJESTY’S RECORDS

GENRE: ROCK

YEAR: 2011

"Till the End of Time" is a popular song written by lyricist Buddy Kaye and composer Ted Mossman and published in 1945. The melody is based on Frédéric Chopin's Polonaise in A flat major, Op. 53, the "Polonaise héroique".

A number of recordings of the song were made in 1945. The biggest hit was by Perry Como; another version by Dick Haymes also charted; the Les Brown orchestra, with vocalist Doris Day, and Ginny Simms also made a recording of the song. It featured prominently in the 1946 film of the same name.

The Perry Como recording was made on July 3, 1945 with the orchestra of Russ Case, and released by RCA Victor as catalog number 20-1709. The record first reached the Billboard magazine charts on August 9, 1945, and lasted 17 weeks on the chart, peaking at #1 (spending 10 consecutive weeks at the top). This was Como's first #1 hit song.

The Dick Haymes recording was recorded on July 2, 1945, and released by Decca Records as catalog number 18699. The record first reached the Billboard magazine charts on September 13, 1945 and lasted 8 weeks on the chart, peaking at #3.

The Les Brown/Doris Day recording was recorded on May 17, 1945, and released by Columbia Records as catalog number 36828. It peaked at #3 on the Billboard magazine pop chart.

The Ginny Simms recording was recorded on July 15, 1945, and released by Columbia Records as catalog number 36849. It did not chart on Billboard.

Robin Beck(born November 7, 1954) is an American singer. She topped the singles chart in the United Kingdom in 1988, and Germany in 1989, with her single "First Time", which had come to the public's attention via its use in a Coca-Cola commercial. Other well-known songs of hers are "Save Up All Your Tears", "In My Heart to Stay", "Tears in the Rain" and "Close to You".

Also, "First Time" was successfully covered or sampled many times, the most recent was made by Sunblock in 2006, peaking at number nine on the UK Singles Chart. Beck also performed it with German pop star Helene Fischer.

Was livin' in a lonely world

A shadow in the night when baby

There you were and you saved me with a smile

You really took my breath away

You caught me by surprise cause darlin'

I wasn't lookin' to meet somebody

But I got lost in your eyes

And here we are so in love

It was all in the stars

I'll love you till the end of time

I'll give my heart I give my life

You know that I would do

Anything for you I feel alive

I promise till the end of days

I'll prove in a thousand ways

I'll be yours and you'll be mine

Till the end of time

You're everything I'll ever need

I know you'll understand, oh baby

Since I met you I been more of a woman

And I'm a better man

And you will never be lost and alone anymore

I'll love you till the end of time

I'll give my heart I give my life

You know that I would do

Anything for you I feel alive

I promise till the end of days

I'll prove in a thousand ways

I'll be yours and you'll be mine

Till the end of time

We're ridin' on a passion of love

We're flyin' in the heavens above

And nothin' gonna bring us down

I love you till the end of time

I give my heart I give my life

I'll be by your side

Day and night

I'll love you till the end of time

I'll give my heart I give my life

You know that I would do

Anything for you I feel alive

I promise till the end of days

I'll prove in a thousand ways

I'll be yours and you'll be mine

I'll love you till the end of time.

COULD IT BE MAGIC?

TAKE THAT

SONGWRITERS: BARRY MANILOW, FRPEDÉRIC CHOPIN & ADRIENNE ANDERSON

WHERE: LIVE IN BERLIN

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: TAKE THAT & PARTY

LABEL: RCA VICTOR

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 1992

"Could It Be Magic" is a song with lyrics by Adrienne Anderson and music by Barry Manilow, based on Frédéric Chopin's Prelude in C Minor, Opus 28, Number 20. Initially released in 1971 by Featherbed (a group of session musicians featuring Barry Manilow), produced and co-written by Tony Orlando, it was later re-recorded as a Barry Manilow solo track, given a first album and single release in 1973 on Bell Records and - after remixing - an album and single rerelease in 1975 on Arista Records. The 1975 re-release became one of Manilow's first hits. The song has been recorded by a number of other artists over the years, most successfully by Donna Summer in 1976 and by Take That in 1992.

Take That are an English pop group formed in Manchester in 1990. The group currently consists of Gary Barlow, Howard Donald and Mark Owen. The original line-up also featured Jason Orange and Robbie Williams. Barlow acts as the group's lead singer and primary songwriter, with Owen and Williams initially providing backing vocals and Donald and Orange serving primarily as dancers.

The group have had 28 top 40 singles and 17 top 5 singles in the United Kingdom, 12 of which have reached number one, as well as having eight number one albums. Internationally, the band have had 56 number one singles and 39 number one albums. They have received eight Brit Awards—winning awards for Best British Group and Best British Live Act.

Williams left the band in 1995 while the four remaining members completed their world tour and released a final single before splitting up in 1996. After filming a 2005 documentary about the group and releasing a new greatest hits album, a four-piece Take That without Williams officially announced a 2006 reunion tour around the UK, entitled The Ultimate Tour. On 9 May 2006, it was announced that the group were set to record new material together once again; their fourth studio album, Beautiful World, was released in 2006 and was followed up with The Circus, in 2008. The group achieved new success as a four-piece, scoring a string of chart hits across the UK and Europe while selling over 45 million records worldwide.

Spirits move me, every time I'm near you

Whirling like a cyclone in my mind

You're my life line, angel of my lifetime

Answer to all answer I can find

[CHORUS:]

Baby I want you come, come, come into my arms

Let me feel the wonder of all of you

Could it be magic now, now, now and hold on fast

Could this be the magic at last

Baby take me high upon a hillside

High up where the stallion meets the sun

I could love you build my world around you

Never leave you till my life is done

[CHORUS]

Spirits move me every time I'm near you

Whiling like a cyclone in my mind

[CHORUS]