The Full Track Listing
Princess Tabu





This is the full listing of songs on Princess Tabu. Following the name of each song is a little tibit of info to whet your appetite.

The Parting Song
Laced with Island percussion and sung by Vika, this is a love song with a difference, as one person's love demands to be allowed to follow another into the after-life.

The Honey Bee
With a hypnotic guitar solo which seems to answer the incessant drums, this song has Linda describing a deep love that superficially is being told to stay away, because it's drowning the story teller. Yet you can't help but feel that underneath it all there still remains a strangely compelling attraction.

Grandpa's Song
This is an entrancing number sung by Linda beautifully and skilfully telling of one of Vika's most memorable childhood experiences. She turned her back on her Grandfather because he arrived to pick her up after school in full traditional dress. It is both a song of regret, understanding and profound family love.

Only In My Dreams
Aided by Diesel's Asian influeneces, this peaceful song is a tranquil lullaby that is certain to bring sweet dreams.

Mama Shake That Thing
Beyond it's driving sexual feel, this is another song showcasing Vika's vocal strengths as it celebrates friendship and the assertiveness of women, as one friend helps to pull another friend out of the dioldrums. Appropriately the cure is song and dance.

Love Comes Easy
The first single, a Barry Palmer collaboration, this rollicking number is a triumphant celebration of love which has the tongue-in-cheek Linda declaring she can have any boy she wants. You can just tell that live this song is going to to be a foot stomping favourite.

Princess Tabu
Tim Finn brings his own Pacific influence to this title track which has Vika's vocals combining with the lyrical tale to spellbind and capture the listener. Your heart and soul will belong to Princess Tabu.

Don't Want To Be A Nutcase
A funky and soulful dance tune sung by the sisters together, it celebrates the fact that people can bring the best out of other people.

Carry Me
Punctuated by just the right amount of brass, this song continues with the symbolsim of water, as one person's love provides a river of life and will carry another to the Holy Land.

Between Two Shores
Sung by Linda, this song is in fact told from the perspective of the two sister's mother who has chosen this sometimes cold place as her home because of love, but still has a place in her heart for her original island home.

Akilotoa
A traditional Tongan love song Vika & Linda sing in their beautiful island tongue about a girl who has many admirers, but is in love with s shy boy, so she calls to him. The title actually means "yearning".

Malo
Linda was so inspired by the raw rhythm of Michael Barker's native drums in this short "thank-you" song that she actually convinced him to let her have a bash away herself.