September 19, 2024 • 8 mins
Stace, Azura and Charlie were lucky enough to catch up with Stan Walker on the release day of his new waiata, Ki Taku Awa.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The Flavor Podcast Network, the Flavor Breakfast Podcast with stace A,
Zorah and Charlie.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
They're way muddy it. Then they Stan Walker, no, my
and Stany Walker's here to release a new way Can
I just quickly say, Stan.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I really admire your deal journey.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Because you have grown so much and then you've really
stepped into it and you released these beautiful wayata.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
The anthems for all of us.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Killed her.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
I am just trying to my beast.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Yeah, that's what it is about.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
I just got to give it a go.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Yeah, let's go home.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
So tell us about your new wayata and one inspired it.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
So I wrote this originally Indela last year. It was
the same time that I wrote I Am and Maldi.
So it's a trilogy. So it's this is actually the
prequel two I Am.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
You're so marty and you're thinking you're going backwards and fording.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Like in terms of the journey, because I Am didn't
just come out of nowhere. Mary didn't come out of nowhere.
It's part of a journey of my own personal journey.
Keur is the place where you go back to healing.
There always has to be a time of healing and
something has to die for something to be born again,
you know, into a new season. It's a very like
(01:33):
for Maldi, but I think just in my own self
as well, which is for Mali. But like that's been
my journey. I've had to come back to my hour,
come back to my home which is my wife, which
is back to her hour, which is the hour Supua,
and it's fun and it's just been a beautiful journey
(01:54):
of my myself, my wife, my kids. But Keith, even
though I wrote it in English last year, in the
last month we had my bro Tobles come and translate
and help basically rewrite this. It's not like a translation
(02:15):
because it's taken on a new meaning because when I
wrote back to the River, that was the beginning of
a new season and a new journeys. Coming back now
listening to the Cupoo that I've written, it's hit me
all again to close off the season and this journey,
this season in my life, and it was like I
was listening to the song Me and Loom, which is
(02:36):
kind of cried or just it literally was like the
relationship that I have with my dad and the passing
on my dad. So we've taken that and it's become
its own new thing, so.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
It's more personal for you.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Yeah, and like it's buzzy because I wrote the song,
but now the song is singing to me and the
whole different part of my life from when I wrote
the song. So it's you've got the English who has
opened this news, you know, gone into this new season.
And then our Maldi version is closing off the season
(03:10):
to go into new territory and new life. And it's
it's been a buzzy journey and and it's my own
songs that are kind.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Of well, I guess now we could say you almost
know how it feels to be us in a way
listening and receiving the music in that way. And for
anyone that needs to hear it, come on now we
(03:48):
did you and Lu first listen to it. That made
you cry because obviously listening in the car is different
to listening in the studio to listening with the apods.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
And like we were, I was editing the video and
I was going back and forth just with some final edits,
and we were in the car and we just know sorry,
we were in the lounge, I think, and we just
played the song and we were listening to the English
version and I was like, oh my gosh. The first
(04:15):
words are like it's been too long, so long away
from being home, just not myself no more. I want
to start again. Where did I go wrong? And it
was talking like I was like, oh my god, this
has been my dad and we just like broke down,
like because that was our relationship and we had come
back to a full circle before he had passed away.
(04:37):
And I filmed the video clip for the English version
the whole weekend that he passed away, so the last shot,
and we had forgot whenmity and then he had passed
away like a few hours later. So it was like
this whole thing, it's just been this emotional journey that
(04:58):
has so many different stories and its started out with
me and Lou and then it's finished with me and
my dad and so like it's been a a healing
all over again.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
It's like when they say, you know, when words fail,
music speaks, and it's definitely talking to you and Bro.
The timing of the song the release is it's pretty good,
like yeah, it's the timing is perfect.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Yeah, And like usually when we do like a w
and we do it a real MILDI version. It's always
the English that comes out, and the English has been
done since last year, video's done, everything's done, but it
just felt right to put out the real Mildi version
out first for my own statement. It's got nothing to
(05:45):
do with anybody else. It's just that's how I feel,
because if we've got usually like you know, I released
an English song, maybe I'll do a Maldi vision lady
later and then you know there's ones where are just
doing Mildy, ones that are just doing English. But this
I was like, no, I want us to be told
first because it's right now and I don't want to
tell it later. So I wanted to just put it
(06:06):
out now. And I I personally feel that every version
of my song that I do in Deil Mali is
sounds and feels better because when the there's cupoo that
there there hasn't there's no sentences for there's a cup
that can explain everything of how you feel and who's
(06:30):
one of the masters, Oh my gosh, our relationship and
the way that he comes down and we talk over
the the intention for things that are of like you
know why and and just coming back and even at
the end of the song it talks about you know,
because I did the song years ago tour, you know,
gonna go away and then now I'm coming back. It's
(06:50):
like a full circle gone away from the river or
to come back. So just the focaro or maldi that
you know, the.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Depth of it, yes, well, even just hearing you speak like,
I'm just in my mind playing out like the evolution
of stan Walker. Like it's not even just like like
you said, from that song to this song. I mean,
it's even just your entire career. It's it's been incredible
and it's the it feels like you just keep giving.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Bro I'm trying to I'm getting any young girl.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
I'm looking around a bit of a.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
No no.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
It's like, you know, really ancestral journey, but it wilso
you bring them back for us as well.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Honestly, I really feel blessed being able to do what
I do in this current climate. Was having a corridor
in the car. But you know, music has kind of changed.
Everybody makes two minute songs that for now then you
know there. And I was listening on the way because
I jove to find to hear it all yesterday and
(07:58):
I was just listening to Ita James and James the
same cook and all these old school Bob Marley. Listening
to the one takes they did the KooKoo that their head.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
You could hear the.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Cracks and the cries, and I was like, I want
to be there. I want to be timeless. I don't
know if it's going to happen, but I want to
share stories from my heart and I don't want to
be the same. I don't want to do it for
now because now never last, you know, I want to
be everlasting in terms of my music.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Timeless, But it took.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
I think you've already done that. Brother.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
We Thanks for listening.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
To the Flavor Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Catch a new here tomorrow, or listen live every weekday
from Sex
The Flavor Podcast Network, the Flavor Breakfast Podcast with stace A,
Zorah and Charlie.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
They're way muddy it. Then they Stan Walker, no, my
and Stany Walker's here to release a new way Can
I just quickly say, Stan.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
I really admire your deal journey.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Because you have grown so much and then you've really
stepped into it and you released these beautiful wayata.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
The anthems for all of us.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Killed her.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
I am just trying to my beast.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Yeah, that's what it is about.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
I just got to give it a go.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Yeah, let's go home.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
So tell us about your new wayata and one inspired it.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
So I wrote this originally Indela last year. It was
the same time that I wrote I Am and Maldi.
So it's a trilogy. So it's this is actually the
prequel two I Am.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
You're so marty and you're thinking you're going backwards and fording.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Like in terms of the journey, because I Am didn't
just come out of nowhere. Mary didn't come out of nowhere.
It's part of a journey of my own personal journey.
Keur is the place where you go back to healing.
There always has to be a time of healing and
something has to die for something to be born again,
you know, into a new season. It's a very like
(01:33):
for Maldi, but I think just in my own self
as well, which is for Mali. But like that's been
my journey. I've had to come back to my hour,
come back to my home which is my wife, which
is back to her hour, which is the hour Supua,
and it's fun and it's just been a beautiful journey
(01:54):
of my myself, my wife, my kids. But Keith, even
though I wrote it in English last year, in the
last month we had my bro Tobles come and translate
and help basically rewrite this. It's not like a translation
(02:15):
because it's taken on a new meaning because when I
wrote back to the River, that was the beginning of
a new season and a new journeys. Coming back now
listening to the Cupoo that I've written, it's hit me
all again to close off the season and this journey,
this season in my life, and it was like I
was listening to the song Me and Loom, which is
(02:36):
kind of cried or just it literally was like the
relationship that I have with my dad and the passing
on my dad. So we've taken that and it's become
its own new thing, so.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
It's more personal for you.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Yeah, and like it's buzzy because I wrote the song,
but now the song is singing to me and the
whole different part of my life from when I wrote
the song. So it's you've got the English who has
opened this news, you know, gone into this new season.
And then our Maldi version is closing off the season
(03:10):
to go into new territory and new life. And it's
it's been a buzzy journey and and it's my own
songs that are kind.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Of well, I guess now we could say you almost
know how it feels to be us in a way
listening and receiving the music in that way. And for
anyone that needs to hear it, come on now we
(03:48):
did you and Lu first listen to it. That made
you cry because obviously listening in the car is different
to listening in the studio to listening with the apods.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
And like we were, I was editing the video and
I was going back and forth just with some final edits,
and we were in the car and we just know sorry,
we were in the lounge, I think, and we just
played the song and we were listening to the English
version and I was like, oh my gosh. The first
(04:15):
words are like it's been too long, so long away
from being home, just not myself no more. I want
to start again. Where did I go wrong? And it
was talking like I was like, oh my god, this
has been my dad and we just like broke down,
like because that was our relationship and we had come
back to a full circle before he had passed away.
(04:37):
And I filmed the video clip for the English version
the whole weekend that he passed away, so the last shot,
and we had forgot whenmity and then he had passed
away like a few hours later. So it was like
this whole thing, it's just been this emotional journey that
(04:58):
has so many different stories and its started out with
me and Lou and then it's finished with me and
my dad and so like it's been a a healing
all over again.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
It's like when they say, you know, when words fail,
music speaks, and it's definitely talking to you and Bro.
The timing of the song the release is it's pretty good,
like yeah, it's the timing is perfect.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Yeah, And like usually when we do like a w
and we do it a real MILDI version. It's always
the English that comes out, and the English has been
done since last year, video's done, everything's done, but it
just felt right to put out the real Mildi version
out first for my own statement. It's got nothing to
(05:45):
do with anybody else. It's just that's how I feel,
because if we've got usually like you know, I released
an English song, maybe I'll do a Maldi vision lady
later and then you know there's ones where are just
doing Mildy, ones that are just doing English. But this
I was like, no, I want us to be told
first because it's right now and I don't want to
tell it later. So I wanted to just put it
(06:06):
out now. And I I personally feel that every version
of my song that I do in Deil Mali is
sounds and feels better because when the there's cupoo that
there there hasn't there's no sentences for there's a cup
that can explain everything of how you feel and who's
(06:30):
one of the masters, Oh my gosh, our relationship and
the way that he comes down and we talk over
the the intention for things that are of like you
know why and and just coming back and even at
the end of the song it talks about you know,
because I did the song years ago tour, you know,
gonna go away and then now I'm coming back. It's
(06:50):
like a full circle gone away from the river or
to come back. So just the focaro or maldi that
you know, the.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Depth of it, yes, well, even just hearing you speak like,
I'm just in my mind playing out like the evolution
of stan Walker. Like it's not even just like like
you said, from that song to this song. I mean,
it's even just your entire career. It's it's been incredible
and it's the it feels like you just keep giving.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Bro I'm trying to I'm getting any young girl.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
I'm looking around a bit of a.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
No no.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
It's like, you know, really ancestral journey, but it wilso
you bring them back for us as well.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Honestly, I really feel blessed being able to do what
I do in this current climate. Was having a corridor
in the car. But you know, music has kind of changed.
Everybody makes two minute songs that for now then you
know there. And I was listening on the way because
I jove to find to hear it all yesterday and
(07:58):
I was just listening to Ita James and James the
same cook and all these old school Bob Marley. Listening
to the one takes they did the KooKoo that their head.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
You could hear the.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Cracks and the cries, and I was like, I want
to be there. I want to be timeless. I don't
know if it's going to happen, but I want to
share stories from my heart and I don't want to
be the same. I don't want to do it for
now because now never last, you know, I want to
be everlasting in terms of my music.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Timeless, But it took.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
I think you've already done that. Brother.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
We Thanks for listening.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
To the Flavor Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Catch a new here tomorrow, or listen live every weekday
from Sex
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