The “Royals” singer, Lorde has teamed up with singer, Marlon Williams for the new track, “Kāhore He Manu E.” Watch the full video song below.
The track will appear on Williams’ first Māori language album, Te Whare Tīwekaweka, which will be released on April 4. The video is pulled from Ngā Ao E Rua – Two Worlds, Ursula Grace Williams’ documentary about the making of the album.
In a press release, Lorde said singing with Williams “is one of my favourite things to do on earth.” She also said, “Over the course of several years I watched Marlon pull at the threads that became Te Whare Tīwekaweka. I saw that the further he got into the album, the deeper my friend came to know himself, his whānau and his world at large. Marlon is an undercover perfectionist, and he was never going to embark on this journey without turning over every stone, crafting complex waiata that speak to the past while also braiding in his characteristic humour and X-ray vision.”
Williams added that Lorde’s voice, “in a very real sense, wrote the song. The distinct and striking characteristics in her voice cornering and demanding of the melody and phrasing what only her voice could.… We got to know each other through sharing the highs and lows of touring life, and in a real sense this song is an ode to the colourful but grim wormhole of road life, to the friends made and lost in the folds of time, ‘visions lost in the blur.’”
In 2022, Lorde dropped the music video for the track named “Oceanic Feeling.”
Lorde Team Up with Marlon Williams for New Track, “Kāhore He Manu E”: Watch Now
