New Zealand singer-songwriter Marlon Williams has enlisted Lorde to visitor on his new track. “Kāhore He Manu E” is taken from Williams’ first Māori language album, Te Whare Tīwekaweka, out April 4. The video is pulled from Ngā Ao E Rua – Two Worlds, Ursula Grace Williams’ documentary concerning the making of the album. Test it out beneath.
In a press launch, Lorde stated singing with Williams “is one among my favorite issues to do on earth.” She additionally stated, “Over the course of a number of years I watched Marlon pull on the threads that grew to become Te Whare Tīwekaweka. I noticed that the additional he bought into the album, the deeper my pal got here to know himself, his whānau and his world at massive. Marlon is an undercover perfectionist, and he was by no means going to embark on this journey with out turning over each stone, crafting complicated waiata that talk to the previous whereas additionally braiding in his attribute humour and X-ray imaginative and prescient.”
Williams added that Lorde’s voice, “in a really actual sense, wrote the track. The distinct and putting traits in her voice cornering and demanding of the melody and phrasing what solely her voice may.… We bought to know one another via sharing the highs and lows of touring life, and in an actual sense this track is an ode to the colorful however grim wormhole of street life, to the buddies made and misplaced within the folds of time, ‘visions misplaced within the blur.’”
Again in 2021, Lorde launched an EP, Te Ao Mārama, of 5 Solar Power songs re-recorded in New Zealand’s indigenous Maori language. In response to solutions of tokenism, she said, “I welcome this discourse. Energy like mine must be interrogated.” Proceeds from the report benefitted Forest and Bird and the Te Hua Kawariki Charitable Trust.
Williams launched the lead single from Te Whare Tīwekaweka, “Aua Atu Rā,” final month.
