Listen: The Very Best Of Herbs
'Listen' is a wonderful, digitally re-mastered album covering the esteemed career of Aotearoa's most famous reggae band, Herbs. This collection contains 19 classic New Zealand hit songs, including 5 tracks that have never appeared on any previous compilations.
Tracks:
Karanga Ra
Long Ago
Good For Life
On My Mind
Parihaka (with Tim Finn)
Light of the Pacific
Homegrown
E Papa
French Letter
Slice of Heaven (with Dave Dobbyn)
Rust in Dust
Sensitive to a Smile
Jah Son
Listen
No Nukes
Nuclear Waste
See What Love Can Do (with Annie Crummer)
Amazing Grace
100% New Zealand Music
Genres
Dub/Reggae, Tangatawhenua
according to Glen (cheers!) from the first link above:
"Karanga Ra written by Miro Hawke and Herbs mainstay Dilworth Karaka, and as far as I know it is performed by Miro Hawke."
Dilworth told the 'NZ Herald' back in 2002, "We took some flak from the traditionalists over putting the karanga on the front of it because they were quite concerned that we had awoken the spirits. But as I said to them then we did it with the utmost respect and we wanted to take our Polynesian culture with us. We had Samoans, Tongans, Cook Islanders and Maori in the band and we are all of the Pacific Ocean. We wanted to call the album Brothers In Arms of the Pacific, but then another famous band used that name so we steered clear of it."
Posted by Mr Editor 12.02PM, 11 Aug 2010Hi Troy I am trying to track down an answer for you... in the meantime you may enjoy the following:
http://www.glenmoffatt.com/herbs_site.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbs_(band)
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/music/news/article.cfm?c_id=264&objectid=10544327
http://www.myspace.com/herbspacificreggae
cheers
Posted by Mr Editor 10.12AM, 11 Aug 2010Simon
Aloha, I'm a Kiwi artist in that has lived here in Hawaii for 20+ years. I saw Herbs play when I was a teen at the Mount main beach BOP NZ in 1987 or 86. Good times and love the music. Any way I've got a question. About a song. Long Ago. In the beginning of that song there's a Maori Lady Chanting. That chant has stuck with me since I was a kid. I listen to it over and over and never get tired. It has fueled alot of my art work. Who is it? and what is she saying. lol. I love this piece and the chant takes me deep into nature. I've been looking through Maori Chants to find something similar but cant find a thing. Help me out Herbs, or any one out there. Mahalo Nui Loa.
Posted by Kiwikani 6.04AM, 11 Aug 2010Troy Carney
1984's Long Ago. It's out of print.
Katchafire do In the Ghetto on their Party Pack album.
Posted by Itchy Pasquali 8.56AM, 4 Aug 2010Does anyone know the name of the album that has "in the ghetto", or has anyone got that song?
Posted by Georgina Reti 8.17PM, 3 Aug 2010