Kava Bowl Music News

Rolling Stone Australia: Scribe unveils his latest music video for the electrifying single 'Glowstick,' featured in his much-anticipated final album

Wed, 17 Jan 2024 21:49:33 GMT

‘This Is My Goodbye’: Scribe Says New Album Will Be His Last

Aotearoa hip hop legend Scribe is back with new music – but his latest offering signals the beginning of the end.

“I have to go out the way I want to go out,” the Ōtautahi rapper says

Last Friday, Scribe dropped his album’s first single, his signature voice sounding as fresh as it did 20 years ago with an impressive melody helping guide the inspiring words it carries. “Glowstick” is about finding the strength to stand up when you get knocked down and moving forward through adversity.

Read the full article here: https://au.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/scribe-scribe-is-dead-album-interview-53650/

Link to "Glowstick" music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3exuvoPP_sY&ab_channel=Scribe

Samoa Observer: RWC TV show produced in Samoa airs in NZ

Thu, 30 Nov 2023 23:09:00 GMT

Rugby World Cup On Island

Click on the link to check out an article written by the Samoa Observer on work in Samoa for Rugby World Cup On Island

One News: Up-and-coming Polynesian quartet delivers sweet music

Wed, 28 Jul 2021 23:03:05 GMT

The Shades make TV headlines

TV One News profiles The Shades as they embark on their first New Zealand tour.

"What do you get when you sprinkle a bit of Sol3 Mio into the Howard Morrison Quartet?

The answer may lie in the sweet sound of The Shades, an ensemble of Tongan and Samoan voices..."

Vunimaqo and me

Fri, 09 Apr 2021 22:50:07 GMT

My routes, my roots

Leads me home to Vunimaqo

‘Vunimaqo and me’

Launching April 10 2021

This powerful new collection by Daren Kamali centres on a mango tree—Vunimaqo— that was a focal point of his youth. Vunimaqo stands by the Tubou Street Barracks, in Samabula North, Suva, Fiji. More than just a tree, Vunimaqo is at the intersection of a community’s life, overseeing and sharing the stories of its people. Vunimaqo and Me is a unique and compelling collection of poems, coupled with images that deepen the words, channelling the many voices and the stories of those who found connection and shelter by the mango tree.

“These are poems of great heart and power, vivid pictures of a lost life, a vital community and its enduring values. Kamali explores the sensory world and of his Fijian youth in work that’s both celebratory and clear-eyed, writing with pace, attitude and buoyant wit.”

– Paula Morris

Daren Kamali is an Auckland based poet, curator, performer and artist. Of Fijian, Uvean, Futunan, Samoan and Scottish, he was born and raised in Suva, at the Tubou Street Barracks, in the shade of the Vunimaqo. This is his third collection of poetry.

“Vunimaqo And Me is a sequence of poems that reveals the circumstances that moulded Daren Kamali’s younger self and shaped his thinking … heir to a jumble of traditions represented in the voices from the streets of Suva that he captures in the daily theatre of life: the gossip, the curses, laughter, jokes and musicality.”

– David Eggleton

Stuff: TV exec turns to his garage to make primetime TV

Sat, 19 Sep 2020 23:04:04 GMT

Kava Bowl Media in the media

Check out the latest article on our founder - John Tapu:

"12-year-old Louis likes to peer over his fence in suburban Mangere Bridge and see which sporting hero might be walking down next door’s driveway this time.

He was alerted to this unlikely procession the day he told his next-door neighbour John Tapu that Tapu’s visiting relative looked just like the 54-cap All Black Julian Savea. It was Julian Savea, Louis learned.

The celebrities walk past Tapu’s red-brick bungalow, on the lowest slopes of Mangere Mountain, down to what was once his garage. $160,000 and a re-mortgaged home later, it is a fully-operational television and recording studio. In Tapu’s mind, it could become the “Paramount of the South Pacific”.

It’s here, driven by a desire to honour his late mother, that the former Sky TV executive plots the career of a country-singing Samoan banana farmer being courted by Sony, and makes TV shows including, remarkably, what might be the first Pasifika primetime show in New Zealand television history...."

One News: Samoa's 'Mr Cowboy' holding Hawke's Bay fundraising concert for measles crisis gripping island nation

Wed, 11 Dec 2019 22:03:37 GMT

One News profiles 'Mr Cowboy'

As Mr Cowboy - Sam Ah Chookoon - comes back to Hawke's Bay to support his countrymen, One News profiles his country style music and fundraiser concert.

"His voice is enough to blow a 10 gallon hat away.

There's no need to understand the language he's singing in to get the quality of "Mr Cowboy"...."