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Small Island Big Song ft' Piteyo Ukah & The Small Island Big Song Village - Uyas Gerakun (Small Island mix)

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Uyas Gerakun (Small Island mix)
Small Island Big Song ft' Piteyo Ukah & The Small Island Big Song Village

For our unity
From little things, big things grow, Pityeo and Eden revived their Truku cultural voice by remaking and learning the Qoqaw (jaw harp). So this song begins with the smallest sound growing as the voices of others join to a thunderous celebration of cultural unity.

lyrics

Uyas Gerakun (Small Island mix)
By Piteyo Ukah in Truku

Mqaras Nami
Mqaras Nami Bi Sunan Ha
Pa-ah Kana Rutan Su
Kana Mnswayi Su Ha!
Mqaras Nami Bi Sunan Ha
Pa-ah Kana~
U~


Welcome!
Welcome to your brothers and sisters
Elders and ancestors
Come over
Welcome to your brothers and sisters
All your siblings (come over and become our families)
All of you.
U (welcoming the spirits)


Kahungunu Mãori Haka by Jerome Kavanagh in Mãori

Tika tonu
Ue Tika tonu
Ue Tika tonu atu Kia koe e Tama
Hiki nei koe Aku Whakaaro
Pakia e hiki aha to hiki e hiki Roa to hiki I aha ha!

Stand strong!
Stand true!
Move with the upmost integrity our future generations
Arise your thoughts
May your troubles lift away and fall into the distance!

credits

from Small Island Big Song, released September 10, 2018
17. UYAS GERAKUN (Small Island mix)
English title – Welcome to join my family
Composer – Eden Hsueh & Piteyo Ukah
Language – Truku Taiwan
Nature sound – Taroko Gorge, Taiwan & Sarawak Rainforest, Borneo.

Featured Artist –
Piteyo Ukah – Truku - Taiwan - Pgagu, Qoqar, vocals
Eden Hsueh – Taiwan - Qoqar

With –
Markham Galut – Wampar - Papua New Guinea - Chants
Richard Mogu – Motu - Papua New Guinea - Susap
Pahin Lusang – Penan - Malaysia - Oreng
Ben Hakalitz – Selau - Bougainville - Kundus
Airileke – Motu - Papua New Guinea – Kundus
Paluai Sook Sook – Baluan - Papua New Guinea - Garamuts
Goroka Show Sing Sing – Papua New Guinea - Kundus
Will Kepa - Kulkalgal - Zenadth Kes/Torres Strait Australia - Warup & Tharum
Kompang Hut – Malay - Singapore - Kompang
Djanav Zengror – Paiwan - Taiwan – Turtur & Rarichyok
Nyuh Kuning Village – Balinese – Bali Indonesia – Gamelan
The village of Gianyar – Balinese Indonesia – Kecak
Horomona Horo – Maori - Aotearoa/New Zealand - Pakuru
Jerome Kavanagh – Maori – Aotearoa/New Zealand – Kahungunu Mãori Haka

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