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.
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