“ these are love songs to the land, to that which grows on it, to those who live on it, to my heart that beats with it, to the waters, and to the Spirit who made us all, with aloha.” Written and recorded on the north shore of Kauaʻi, the album spreads across a diverse scenery, opening with a haku mele (original composition written in the Hawaiian language) in “Polikua,” to a blues roots earth anthem in “Children of the Land,” a banjo foot stomper in “Mountain Woman,” wispy flutes in between layered vocal harmonies in “Listen,” some Sanskrit chanting in “Amaya”, and a love song reminiscent of Rumi’s poetry in the closing track “In Your Love.”
A fitting name for this genre-defying project. The title of the 14 song album, Mauna, means mountain in Hawaiian, and silence in Sanskrit.
Having lived for years on an organic fruits and vegetables farm on Kauaʻi in the Hawaiian islands, this praise seems to have multiplied as the musical stories mix moods of adventure, romance, wonder, joy of abundance, and exploration of love.
XAVIER RUDD KAUAI FULL
With his first full length album, Mauna, which drops October 2nd, 2019, Steven Sedalia blends instrumentation from Hawaii, India, Appalachia, and Africa, with lyrics of an ecstatic devotion to universal love, all glued together by a folk rock musicality set to move waists and hearts.īeing raised in the mountains of North Carolina has instilled in Sedalia a deep reverence for the land that is emergent in his songs.
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