Pūrerehu: Ambient gig with Waiwhai and Wear pounamu
Waiwhai
Wear Pounamu
Pūrerehu is the mist that settles between what has been and what is yet to come.
Join us for an Ambient gig with Waiwhai and Wear pounamu.
Within its veil, the horizon disappears. Attention turns inward. The world quietens. Surrounded by the haze there is only ground beneath your feet, the breath within your chest, and the sounds that carry between them.
The naming of Pūrerehu recalls the pūrerehua, a taonga pūoro whose voice moves through the air like wind, hum, and memory. Sound here is an environment; something to enter, dwell within, and move alongside.
Pūrerehu invites listening as a form of orientation. A gathering within the fog, where sound drifts, settles, and slowly reveals itself.
Biographies
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Descendant of Te Parawhau, Te Uriroroi and Ngāti Mahuta, Rāhana Tito-Taylor straddles between worlds of audio creation and sculpting as a taonga puoro artisan and multi-dimensional artist, weaving awareness of sound practice with the construction of forms found through ngā taonga puoro.
Aside from making taonga puoro Rāhana is involved in the wider music world as a composer, performer, producer and band leader. Some of Rāhana’s projects and accomplishments include: founder of Noa Records, Arts Foundation 2021 Springboard awardee, composer for Nova Paul’s ‘Hawaiki’ (Sundance Film Festival short films selection 2023) and ‘Ngā Pūrākau Nō Ngā Rākau’, and co-composer of ‘Weather Assemblage’ alongside Noel Meek and Jake Kiano-Skinner at the Govett Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre. Rāhana performs under the monicker WAIWHAI. as well as with Samoan indie-rock outfit LEAO, who recently toured the UK in Brighton and London, as well as in Scandinavia supporting legendary Touareg desert-blues band TInariwen.
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Wear Pounamu (Te Āti Haunui a Pāpārangi, Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara, Ngāi Tahu) is a pūoro theorist. Their practice moves with the undercurrents of the times, responding to the whenua and its mauri as they find it. They work to separate ego from self, pulling from the collective consciousness and placing the listener in a space of introspection and relatability. Guided through a te ao Māori lens, their sets drift between wairua realms and the satirical, bringing groundedness through provocation and play.