Comes in a cardboard gatefold case with a 8 page booklet and a pocket for the disc, hand numbered, and signed by the artist, first edition of 150. Art by Natalie Del Villar, Shamatha One, and Jarad Bryant.
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RECONNECTION by ESOLIGH featuring SWIZL JAGER
CHORUS (ESOLIGH)
Sights within lead up to understanding,
Leading to futures unreprimanding,
Poetic paths of powerful lights I’m lending,
It's what I'm seeing!
Sights within lead up to understanding,
Leading to futures unreprimanding,
Poetic paths of powerful lights I’m lending,
It's what I'm seeing!
VERSE ONE (Esoligh)
Yo I’m a Maaori, through and through,
A Danish, Scottish, Irish, English, Welsh Maaori that’s the truth,
Who are you? Do you even know?
Letting your ancestors inform helping you to define you?
I went to Maketu in February 2002,
Seeking healing from my disconnected whanau,
A broken man with psychotic symptoms,
Struggling through each days glimpses
Stepping into the hui with Paul and Quentin Tapihana,
Demons were dancing in my mental, sucking out my mana,
I sat barely holding on waiting for change,
Anzac and Piripi Tapsell, one love, saying
kia ora, welcome, as I sat flattened by by madness,
The defest matatuhi seeking ahi kaa gladness,
My great kuia Bertha Te Arani Warmington beckoning,
This te ao Maaori world graspable, reachable, needing intersectioning
Unsectioning
CHORUS (ESOLIGH)
Sights within lead up to understanding,
Leading to futures unreprimanding,
Poetic paths of powerful lights I’m lending,
It's what I'm seeing!
Sights within lead up to understanding,
Leading to futures unreprimanding,
Poetic paths of powerful lights I’m lending,
It's what I'm seeing!
VERSE TWO (ESOLIGH)
Hetty and Quentin helped me out,
And this whanau connection wasn't in doubt,
Clout, of the holy sanctified bout,
This person I am my own walkabout
I haven’t been back to Maketu since,
My karakia include it, like spears to mints,
Whakaaro naturally wander to awhi me,
Righteous strength of whanau, in I & I you see
I’m a Viking of the sunrise and a Viking of the icy sea,
Blonde haired, blue eyed Danish Maaori soul to see,
Go over to the pain inside of me,
Finding the flipside of shadow, insights I see
When whanau realise I'm a Tapsell they awhi me,
Something shifts, something changes, instantaneously,
I felt myself begin to grow to further activity,
The energy, chi, mauri gives me hunger to be
CHORUS (ESOLIGH)
Sights within lead up to understanding,
Leading to futures unreprimanding,
Poetic paths of powerful lights I’m lending,
It's what I'm seeing!
Sights within lead up to understanding,
Leading to futures unreprimanding,
Poetic paths of powerful lights I’m lending,
It's what I'm seeing!
VERSE THREE (SWIZL JAGER)
Who dat! Who dat! Bitch I got that ahi kaa,
Spitting flames from the centre of my wairua,
They wanna know, ko wai au?
So I tell 'em whakarongo and you best to take notes
I'm a mix of love and violence,
Not a psycho, just a product of environments,
I still recite though not wanna succumb to silence
So play your violins, cos it's a sad state of affairs what them Simon Says
You wanna know my whakapapa,
Get the fuck up off my nuttas,
You're muppets, I shrug 'em off,
Cos they just sucka luckas
I'm a child of the universe culturally identified as Maaori,
But that doesn't define me,
I've got that Chinese blood in my veins, Irish as well as the Danes,
English too, but the fact remains
I am me and you and I will never be the same,
We are our own self and that will never change,
No matter what I still give love and thanks to my Tupuna,
Because without them there would be no us
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