Our next album is really a tribute to what the women have done - but that's another story. What we are saying is, let's not forget the indigenous wisdom, the wisdom our forefathers had. With their resources they were able to sustain their families and live peacefully. When there was something wrong, they knew there something was wrong. Because they were so close to nature, they were in harmony with it, and in certain ways they were able to control their environment.
Modern science is good but let's keep a balance.
Kacicaki vakatama - it's important. We've felt a lot of hardships in these difficult times, but trouble does something to the human mind, that is what we are chanting about. In the song I've made strong definitions of the ocean, the width, the depth of the ocean, the powers that are in the ocean, its strengths. It is calm, it is also powerful, and it can kill. The life that is in the ocean - it has provided us with our livelihood, fish and nutrition.