NAKA WARA WARA TO'O - Small Island Big Song ft' Charles Maimarosia

🌿Dedicated to the gifts of our ancestors and nature. 🌱
May we have the wisdom to treasure them and pass them on as they were gifted to us.
🌏 Discover more on our website: bit.ly/SIBS_Website
Small Island Big Song is a multi-platform project uniting musicians across the Pacific & Indian Oceans.
Recorded, composed & filmed in nature on the artist's homeland.
With the goal of creating a contemporary and relevant musical statement of a region living the escalating effects of climate change.
From the Album - Small Island Big Song
(A Fair Trade music release, recorded in nature)
To purchase and discover more visit & say hi.
www.smallislandbigsong.com
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🌴Song - Naka Wara Wara To'o (Small Island mix)
🌴Artist - Small Island Big Song ft' Charles Maimarosia
Naka Warawara To'o
Composer - Charles Maimarosia
Language - Are’Are, The Solomon Islands
Nature sound - Rainforest in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.
Contributing Musicians (recoded on their islands)
The Yumi Yet Bamboo Band - Haku People - Bougainville - Monoka (bamboo band)
Sammy Samoea - Merina People - Madagascar - Kabosy
Rajery & Zo - Merina People - Madagascar - Vocal Percussion
Kuana Torres Kahele - Hawaiian - Hawai’i - Ipu
Airileke and Paluai Sook Sook - Motu People - Papua New Guinea - Garamuts
The Vanuatu Water Women - Mwerlap People - Vanuatu - Water Percussion & Vocals
Piteyo Ukah - Truku People - Taiwan - Qoqar & Pgagu
Music Produced, Recorded & Mixed - Tim Cole
Film - a Small Island Big Song production
Directed, Shot and Edited - Tim Cole
Produced and additional Cinematography - BaoBao Chen
“If you hear an Are’Are song you can feel and see how long it has been there. The songs are documents of who we are, the only gift our ancestors gave us." Charles Maimarosia.
Lyrics by Charles Maimarosia (Written in Are'Are)
Naka wara wara to’o
A’u Pata’i aasi
A’u Pata’i Toro
A’u hiroro’i Aasi
A’u hiroro’i Toro
Naka Wara to’oa
Naka wara wara to’o
Waru nima nanara
Naka wara to’oa
Naka wara wara to’o
Waru Kapasiraro Naka
Warato’oa ha
(English Translation by Charles Maimarosia)
I’m shooting these prophetic words to you
You ancestral treasure of the ocean
You ancestral treasure of the mountain
To you ancestral spirits who curved the ocean treasures
To you ancestral spirits who curved the mountain treasures
These prophetic words will hit their goal
I’m shooting these prophetic words to you
Eight houses of thrones & crowns
These prophetic words will hit their goals
I’m shooting these prophetic word to you
Ancestral spirits who gave birth to air, space and time
These prophetic words will hit their goals
Recorded and produced in the field, from the grass roots up.
Small Island Big Song is independently owned & managed.
Profit made from the album
1 Fair Trade - 50% of net profits are distributed to the artists & NGOs.
2 All artists are treated equally on two tiers, feature or session artist.
3 Acknowledging Intangible Cultural Heritage as defined in The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People by giving selected NGOs (by artists’ choice) a share in net profits.
Full thank you list, artist notes, interactive songs’ journeys, photos, videos and stories on our website.
www.smallislandbigsong.com

[@kevinkay1718]

My Are'Are' language. ❤❤🇸🇧🇸🇧

[@Pasovineyard]

Yes, hearing native American, plains dance and song in this music.

[@manoubecker1344]

Words can't describe this beautiful art piece.

[@christyhanasung5425]

❤️ Reeeeally love it! Thank you for making this project happen. - Truku girl from Hualien

[@en_kemuriya]

Over dub works great... All the instruments, voices, every scene and everyone on the film touch my heart.

[@SmallIslandBigSong]

Thank you, they are all the First Nation peoples of their homelands, united to celebrate nature and their culture.

[@georgehoaau8652]

Wow!!!

[@TheJojo0590]

Amazing stuff!!

[@justinronberg4936]

Beautiful music fantastic

[@SmallIslandBigSong]

Thanks, Justin, it was all recorded in nature with the instruments of that land, out of respect for the people and nature of that place...and out of respect for creating inspiring music to liberate our ears. Tim the music's producer. (there was one artist we had to record in the studio)

[@brandon797928]

Awesome~

[@brianmanerama9328]

Amazing ❤😌🎶

[@SmallIslandBigSong]

Hi Brian, yes we were amazed too, as the producers when we finally stopped traveling and recording and mixed all the layers of this song together. All traditional instruments recorded in the field. Please subscribe we have new music recorded in nature on the way. Tim the producer

[@ElsaLinn]

烏嘎老師的臉都害羞了

[@sararecalde449]

Hello! I am doing a work of this song, it is possible to contact you to ask you some questions?

[@SmallIslandBigSong]

Hi Sara, sure love sharing the stories behind the songs, you can have a look at the song's page on our website, and find my contact there too. Tim