New Zealand music – Deborah Wai Kapohe

Songwriting

I have never been happy with my recording of ‘River Will Carry Me’ (2022). So, yesterday, I edited the vocals and sound engineering and… Voilà! The problem for me with the 2022 version was that the vocals weren’t expressing what I needed this song to say: ‘the River’ (life) will eventually bring the character inContinue reading “Songwriting”

Vocals for DJ Strange

Here is a snippet of a recording session with House musician, DJ Strange. The sound track is a snippet of Strange’s composition ‘Matariki’; one of the tracks that I recorded with him and that he is currently editing. Strange’s music is an unique blend of House, Taonga Pūoro and Waiata (Song). Here is his FacebookContinue reading “Vocals for DJ Strange”