Tha Feelstyle is the stage name of award winning hip hop artist Kas Futialo, a New Zealander of Samoan descent. His first album was Break It To Pieces in 2004. Tha Feelstyle was born in Samoa and moved to New Zealand in the 1980s. He raps in English as well as the Samoan language.
History
Tha Feelstyle entered his first rap competition in 1987 and under the name of RIQ was part of the Wellington hip hop duo Rough Opinion with Samoan rapper K.O.S. In the 1990s, he was a member of The Overstayers which included King Kapisi and DJ Raw (aka Ian Seumanu). He has also worked with Andy Morton (aka The Submariner) an experienced producer in Auckland who has worked with various New Zealand artists including King Kapisi and Che Fu. The music video for Tha Feelystyle's award winning single Suamalie/Ain't Mad at You was filmed in Samoa and directed by New Zealand filmmaker Chris Graham, the director of feature film Sione's Wedding. The track also featured in the movie. In 2009, Tha Feelstyle is touring New Zealand with King Kapisi. In 2008, Tha Feelstyle released the Samoan-language album Lokokasi. In March 2011, He released his third album Good Morning Samoa, at the Pasifika Festival. Good Morning Samoa was nominated for three awards at the 2012 Pacific Music Awards - for Best Pacific Male Artist, Best Pacific Language album, and Best Pacific Music Album.
The June 2008 re-issued and re-mastered version of the album contains an alternative takes of "Enlightenment" and "So Quiet in Here"."Start All Over Again" from this album was listed as one of the standout tracks from the six album reissue.
Recording
The album was recorded in London, England, and Real World in Box. The arrangements were by Fiachra Trench and Micheal O'Suilleabhain played piano with a brass section made up of Britishjazz musicians from the late sixties: Frank Ricotti, Henry Lowther and Malcolm Griffiths.
One of the songs "So Quiet in Here" was recorded at the Kirk, Rode, Somerset, a setting which served as both church or studio.
Composition
Contrary to the meaning of the title, the theme of the album is actually full of doubt and the songs seem to be saying that everything is what you make of it — heaven or hell. The song "Enlightenment" contains the words: "I'm in the here and now and I'm meditating/ And still I'm suffering but that's my problem/ Enlightenment, don't know what it is". "So Quiet in Here" is a continuation of the song "Into the Mystic" from the Moondance album. The single released from the album, "Real Real Gone", was originally written and meant for the 1980 album Common One. The song "In the Days Before Rock 'N' Roll" was a collaboration between Morrison and the Irish poet Paul Durcan.
The English term enlightenment is the western translation of the term bodhi, "awakening", which has entered the Western world via the 19th century translations of Max Müller. It has the western connotation of a sudden insight into a transcendental truth.
The term is also being used to translate several other Buddhist terms and concepts used to denote insight (prajna, kensho and satori); knowledge (vidhya); the "blowing out" (Nirvana) of disturbing emotions and desires and the subsequent freedom or release (vimutti); and the attainment of Buddhahood, as exemplified by Gautama Buddha.
What exactly constituted the Buddha's awakening is unknown. It may probably have involved the knowledge that liberation was attained by the combination of mindfulness and dhyāna, applied to the understanding of the arising and ceasing of craving. The relation between dhyana and insight is a core problem in the study of Buddhism, and is one of the fundamentals of Buddhist practice.
In the western world the concept of (spiritual) enlightenment has taken on a romantic meaning. It has become synonymous with self-realization and the true self, being regarded as a substantial essence being covered over by social conditioning.
Biographer Brian Hinton comments "'Enlightenment' is actually the opposite of what it sounds: it is full of doubt, not affirmation. 'I'm meditating and still I'm suffering.' He seems to be saying everything is a state of mind, you can choose to live in heaven or hell."
In a Rolling Stone review, John Swenson writes that the album Enlightenment is a sequel to Avalon Sunset and enables Morrison to have a new start (musically and spiritually). "Morrison is so pleased with his new start that he can even poke fun at his quest on the title track. 'I'm in the here and now and I'm meditating/And still I'm suffering but that's my problem,' he sings. 'Enlightenment, don't know what it is' – and he doesn't sound disturbed at all."
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Yui Aragaki(新垣 結衣,Aragaki Yui, born June 11, 1988) is a Japanese actress, model, singer and occasional radio show host.
She is particularly recognized for her beauty and her movie projects.
Career
Aragaki won the Film prize at the 45th Golden Arrow Awards in 2008. Her tremendous number of movie shoots as well as the preparation for her debut album resulted in her suffering from work-related stress in 2007.
Outside acting she also released her first album, Sora, and the single "Heavenly Days", a song from Koizora. "Memories", the theme song for Tokyo Serendipity, was included in her debut album. She also performed at Budokan.
She was also the co-hosts for popular radio program Girls Locks in 2010-2012.
A chess piece, or chessman, is any of the 32 movable objects deployed on a chessboard used to play the game of chess. In a standard game of chess, each of the two players begins a game with the following 16 pieces:
In playing chess, the players take turns moving one of their own chess pieces. The rules of chess prescribe the types of move a player can make with each type of chess piece.
The pieces that belong to each player are distinguished by color. The lighter colored pieces, and the player that plays them, are referred to as white. The darker colored pieces and their player are referred to as black.
Terminology
In chess, the word "piece" has three meanings, depending on the context.
It may mean any of the physical pieces of the set, including the pawns. When used this way, "piece" is synonymous with "chessman" (Hooper & Whyld 1992:307) or simply "man" (Hooper & Whyld 1987:200).
In play, the term is usually used to exclude pawns, referring only to a queen, rook, bishop, knight, or king. In this context, the pieces can be broken down into three groups: major pieces (queen and rook), minor pieces (bishop and knight), and the king (Brace 1977:220).
The Feelstyle ft. Mareko, Flowz & Lapi Mariner - I Do Believe [HD]
From the 2004 soundtrack to the film "Siones Wedding".....
KAS Tha-Feelstyle Fan Site:
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Tha Feelstyle is the stage name of award winning hip hop artist Kas Futialo, a New Zealander of Samoan descent. His first album was Break It To Pieces in 2004. Tha Feelstyle was born in Samoa and moved to New Zealand in the 1980s. He raps in English as well as the Samoan language
Tha Feelstyle won three awards at the 2005 Pacific Music Awards for his album Break it to Pieces. He won Best Pacific Hip Hop Artist, Best Pacific Male Artist and Best Pacific Song for Suamalie/Ain't Mad at You. Tha Feelstyle had been up against Scribe and Dei Hamo for some of the awards.
Tha ...
published: 24 Nov 2009
NZ Hip Hop Stand Up - Tha Feelstyle 'Suamalie'
Rapped nearly entirely in Samoan, Tha Feelstyle’s 2004 single ‘Suamalie’ was a tribute to the islands of the artist behind the track, Kas Futialo, and helped inspire Pacific artists in Aotearoa to incorporate their native tongue into their hip hop.
Produced by DJ Raw on his garage set up in Wellington, Futialo finished the final lyrics for ‘Suamalie’ and recorded them in an hour and a half. With the song, the Samoan artist saw it as a tribute to the ancestral land that he’d left as a kid.
“As a hip hop artist, the dream is to go to New York, the home of hip hop. For me, my dream was to go back to Samoa and say I did something good,” Kas says. And with Suamalie’s music video, he got to do exactly that.
Returning to his hometown, the filming trip was ‘more than a music video’ for the art...
published: 18 Feb 2022
'Outside Enclosure' Tha Feelstyle
NZ Hip Hop
published: 16 Jun 2008
Su’ga Ea!
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Su’ga Ea! · Tha Feelstyle · K. Futialo · A. Morton · N. Ngatae
Next Goal Wins (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
℗ 2023 Lakeshore Records
Released on: 2023-11-17
Producer, Mixer: Submariner
Recording Engineer: Warren Brown
Mastering Engineer: Patricia Sullivan
Mastering Second Engineer: Jack Doutt
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published: 16 Nov 2023
SOMETIMES WHEN IT RAINS By THA FEELSTYLE feat ADEAZE
Shot in SAMOA Feb 25th - 1st March 2010
Producer/Director MICHAEL REIHANA
Photography by DANIEL MONAGHAN & MARTYN WILLIAMS
editor DANIEL MONAGHAN
published: 11 Apr 2010
Tha Movement - MASTA Featuring Poetik, MC Arme, SMV, King Kapisi, Mareko & Kas The Feelstyle
· Parental advisory - contains explicit lyrics
· Buy online: https://itunes.apple.com/nz/album/the-undisciplined-son-ep/1231363039
· Voice over skits courtesy of HollyWood HusbandsOf Da Samoa
PG/clean version and wave file available to Radio and DJs by emailing [email protected] Go to The Coconet TV for the rest of story
Music by: Anonymouz
Video directed by: Tuki Laumea
Video filmed by: Joe Murdie
Tha Feelstyle - Tha anthem ( Aotearoa Hiphop vol 1, 1998). Produced by DJ Raw, recorded in his garage. Assisted by DJ Pause (Ritchie Mills). Singing by Leva Finau.
published: 24 Apr 2013
Kas Tha Fieldstyle Orator - Hibiscus Milk (1995)
Kas Tha Fieldstyle Orator (aka Tha Feelstyle) - Hibiscus Milk, from 1995, on Papa Pacific Records.
published: 21 Sep 2013
'FIA VA'AI IA OE' KAS FUTIALO - THA FEELSTYLE
KAS FUTIALO - THA FEELSTYLE SAMOAN ALBUM 'LOKOKASI' [SAMOAN HIP HOP SOUNDS]
From the 2004 soundtrack to the film "Siones Wedding".....
KAS Tha-Feelstyle Fan Site:
http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=2728454771
Get his music:...
From the 2004 soundtrack to the film "Siones Wedding".....
KAS Tha-Feelstyle Fan Site:
http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=2728454771
Get his music:
http://www.amplifier.co.nz/artist/8345/feelstyle.html
Tha Feelstyle is the stage name of award winning hip hop artist Kas Futialo, a New Zealander of Samoan descent. His first album was Break It To Pieces in 2004. Tha Feelstyle was born in Samoa and moved to New Zealand in the 1980s. He raps in English as well as the Samoan language
Tha Feelstyle won three awards at the 2005 Pacific Music Awards for his album Break it to Pieces. He won Best Pacific Hip Hop Artist, Best Pacific Male Artist and Best Pacific Song for Suamalie/Ain't Mad at You. Tha Feelstyle had been up against Scribe and Dei Hamo for some of the awards.
Tha Feelstyle entered his first rap competition in 1987 and under the name of RIQ was part of the Wellington hip hop duo Rough Opinion with Samoan rapper K.O.S. In the 1990s, he was a member of The Overstayers which included King Kapisi and DJ Raw (aka Ian Seumanu). He has also worked with Andy Morton (aka The Submariner) an experienced producer in Auckland who has worked with various New Zealand artists including King Kapisi and Che Fu. The music video for Tha Feelystyle's award winning single Suamalie/Ain't Mad at You was filmed in Samoa and directed by New Zealand filmmaker Chris Graham, the director of feature film Sione's Wedding. The track also featured in the movie. In 2009, Tha Feelstyle is touring New Zealand with King Kapisi.
From the 2004 soundtrack to the film "Siones Wedding".....
KAS Tha-Feelstyle Fan Site:
http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=2728454771
Get his music:
http://www.amplifier.co.nz/artist/8345/feelstyle.html
Tha Feelstyle is the stage name of award winning hip hop artist Kas Futialo, a New Zealander of Samoan descent. His first album was Break It To Pieces in 2004. Tha Feelstyle was born in Samoa and moved to New Zealand in the 1980s. He raps in English as well as the Samoan language
Tha Feelstyle won three awards at the 2005 Pacific Music Awards for his album Break it to Pieces. He won Best Pacific Hip Hop Artist, Best Pacific Male Artist and Best Pacific Song for Suamalie/Ain't Mad at You. Tha Feelstyle had been up against Scribe and Dei Hamo for some of the awards.
Tha Feelstyle entered his first rap competition in 1987 and under the name of RIQ was part of the Wellington hip hop duo Rough Opinion with Samoan rapper K.O.S. In the 1990s, he was a member of The Overstayers which included King Kapisi and DJ Raw (aka Ian Seumanu). He has also worked with Andy Morton (aka The Submariner) an experienced producer in Auckland who has worked with various New Zealand artists including King Kapisi and Che Fu. The music video for Tha Feelystyle's award winning single Suamalie/Ain't Mad at You was filmed in Samoa and directed by New Zealand filmmaker Chris Graham, the director of feature film Sione's Wedding. The track also featured in the movie. In 2009, Tha Feelstyle is touring New Zealand with King Kapisi.
Rapped nearly entirely in Samoan, Tha Feelstyle’s 2004 single ‘Suamalie’ was a tribute to the islands of the artist behind the track, Kas Futialo, and helped in...
Rapped nearly entirely in Samoan, Tha Feelstyle’s 2004 single ‘Suamalie’ was a tribute to the islands of the artist behind the track, Kas Futialo, and helped inspire Pacific artists in Aotearoa to incorporate their native tongue into their hip hop.
Produced by DJ Raw on his garage set up in Wellington, Futialo finished the final lyrics for ‘Suamalie’ and recorded them in an hour and a half. With the song, the Samoan artist saw it as a tribute to the ancestral land that he’d left as a kid.
“As a hip hop artist, the dream is to go to New York, the home of hip hop. For me, my dream was to go back to Samoa and say I did something good,” Kas says. And with Suamalie’s music video, he got to do exactly that.
Returning to his hometown, the filming trip was ‘more than a music video’ for the artist. Directed by filmmaker Chris Graham, the music featured scenes of Kas Futialo rapping across the picturesque surroundings of his Samoan hometown.
When released, the track made it into the Top 40 and went on to win Pacific Song of the year. But even bigger than the impact that the track made on release was the pathway it unlocked for other artists who heard Kas’ unique Samoan rapping.
Watch more of the NZ Hip Hop Stand Up series here -
https://www.thecoconet.tv/coco-docos/nz-hip-hop-stand-up/
Rapped nearly entirely in Samoan, Tha Feelstyle’s 2004 single ‘Suamalie’ was a tribute to the islands of the artist behind the track, Kas Futialo, and helped inspire Pacific artists in Aotearoa to incorporate their native tongue into their hip hop.
Produced by DJ Raw on his garage set up in Wellington, Futialo finished the final lyrics for ‘Suamalie’ and recorded them in an hour and a half. With the song, the Samoan artist saw it as a tribute to the ancestral land that he’d left as a kid.
“As a hip hop artist, the dream is to go to New York, the home of hip hop. For me, my dream was to go back to Samoa and say I did something good,” Kas says. And with Suamalie’s music video, he got to do exactly that.
Returning to his hometown, the filming trip was ‘more than a music video’ for the artist. Directed by filmmaker Chris Graham, the music featured scenes of Kas Futialo rapping across the picturesque surroundings of his Samoan hometown.
When released, the track made it into the Top 40 and went on to win Pacific Song of the year. But even bigger than the impact that the track made on release was the pathway it unlocked for other artists who heard Kas’ unique Samoan rapping.
Watch more of the NZ Hip Hop Stand Up series here -
https://www.thecoconet.tv/coco-docos/nz-hip-hop-stand-up/
Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises
Su’ga Ea! · Tha Feelstyle · K. Futialo · A. Morton · N. Ngatae
Next Goal Wins (Original Motion Picture Soundtra...
Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises
Su’ga Ea! · Tha Feelstyle · K. Futialo · A. Morton · N. Ngatae
Next Goal Wins (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
℗ 2023 Lakeshore Records
Released on: 2023-11-17
Producer, Mixer: Submariner
Recording Engineer: Warren Brown
Mastering Engineer: Patricia Sullivan
Mastering Second Engineer: Jack Doutt
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises
Su’ga Ea! · Tha Feelstyle · K. Futialo · A. Morton · N. Ngatae
Next Goal Wins (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
℗ 2023 Lakeshore Records
Released on: 2023-11-17
Producer, Mixer: Submariner
Recording Engineer: Warren Brown
Mastering Engineer: Patricia Sullivan
Mastering Second Engineer: Jack Doutt
Auto-generated by YouTube.
· Parental advisory - contains explicit lyrics
· Buy online: https://itunes.apple.com/nz/album/the-undisciplined-son-ep/1231363039
· Voice over skits courtesy of HollyWood HusbandsOf Da Samoa
PG/clean version and wave file available to Radio and DJs by emailing [email protected] Go to The Coconet TV for the rest of story
Music by: Anonymouz
Video directed by: Tuki Laumea
Video filmed by: Joe Murdie
· Parental advisory - contains explicit lyrics
· Buy online: https://itunes.apple.com/nz/album/the-undisciplined-son-ep/1231363039
· Voice over skits courtesy of HollyWood HusbandsOf Da Samoa
PG/clean version and wave file available to Radio and DJs by emailing [email protected] Go to The Coconet TV for the rest of story
Music by: Anonymouz
Video directed by: Tuki Laumea
Video filmed by: Joe Murdie
Tha Feelstyle - Tha anthem ( Aotearoa Hiphop vol 1, 1998). Produced by DJ Raw, recorded in his garage. Assisted by DJ Pause (Ritchie Mills). Singing by Leva Fin...
Tha Feelstyle - Tha anthem ( Aotearoa Hiphop vol 1, 1998). Produced by DJ Raw, recorded in his garage. Assisted by DJ Pause (Ritchie Mills). Singing by Leva Finau.
Tha Feelstyle - Tha anthem ( Aotearoa Hiphop vol 1, 1998). Produced by DJ Raw, recorded in his garage. Assisted by DJ Pause (Ritchie Mills). Singing by Leva Finau.
From the 2004 soundtrack to the film "Siones Wedding".....
KAS Tha-Feelstyle Fan Site:
http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=2728454771
Get his music:
http://www.amplifier.co.nz/artist/8345/feelstyle.html
Tha Feelstyle is the stage name of award winning hip hop artist Kas Futialo, a New Zealander of Samoan descent. His first album was Break It To Pieces in 2004. Tha Feelstyle was born in Samoa and moved to New Zealand in the 1980s. He raps in English as well as the Samoan language
Tha Feelstyle won three awards at the 2005 Pacific Music Awards for his album Break it to Pieces. He won Best Pacific Hip Hop Artist, Best Pacific Male Artist and Best Pacific Song for Suamalie/Ain't Mad at You. Tha Feelstyle had been up against Scribe and Dei Hamo for some of the awards.
Tha Feelstyle entered his first rap competition in 1987 and under the name of RIQ was part of the Wellington hip hop duo Rough Opinion with Samoan rapper K.O.S. In the 1990s, he was a member of The Overstayers which included King Kapisi and DJ Raw (aka Ian Seumanu). He has also worked with Andy Morton (aka The Submariner) an experienced producer in Auckland who has worked with various New Zealand artists including King Kapisi and Che Fu. The music video for Tha Feelystyle's award winning single Suamalie/Ain't Mad at You was filmed in Samoa and directed by New Zealand filmmaker Chris Graham, the director of feature film Sione's Wedding. The track also featured in the movie. In 2009, Tha Feelstyle is touring New Zealand with King Kapisi.
Rapped nearly entirely in Samoan, Tha Feelstyle’s 2004 single ‘Suamalie’ was a tribute to the islands of the artist behind the track, Kas Futialo, and helped inspire Pacific artists in Aotearoa to incorporate their native tongue into their hip hop.
Produced by DJ Raw on his garage set up in Wellington, Futialo finished the final lyrics for ‘Suamalie’ and recorded them in an hour and a half. With the song, the Samoan artist saw it as a tribute to the ancestral land that he’d left as a kid.
“As a hip hop artist, the dream is to go to New York, the home of hip hop. For me, my dream was to go back to Samoa and say I did something good,” Kas says. And with Suamalie’s music video, he got to do exactly that.
Returning to his hometown, the filming trip was ‘more than a music video’ for the artist. Directed by filmmaker Chris Graham, the music featured scenes of Kas Futialo rapping across the picturesque surroundings of his Samoan hometown.
When released, the track made it into the Top 40 and went on to win Pacific Song of the year. But even bigger than the impact that the track made on release was the pathway it unlocked for other artists who heard Kas’ unique Samoan rapping.
Watch more of the NZ Hip Hop Stand Up series here -
https://www.thecoconet.tv/coco-docos/nz-hip-hop-stand-up/
Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises
Su’ga Ea! · Tha Feelstyle · K. Futialo · A. Morton · N. Ngatae
Next Goal Wins (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
℗ 2023 Lakeshore Records
Released on: 2023-11-17
Producer, Mixer: Submariner
Recording Engineer: Warren Brown
Mastering Engineer: Patricia Sullivan
Mastering Second Engineer: Jack Doutt
Auto-generated by YouTube.
· Parental advisory - contains explicit lyrics
· Buy online: https://itunes.apple.com/nz/album/the-undisciplined-son-ep/1231363039
· Voice over skits courtesy of HollyWood HusbandsOf Da Samoa
PG/clean version and wave file available to Radio and DJs by emailing [email protected] Go to The Coconet TV for the rest of story
Music by: Anonymouz
Video directed by: Tuki Laumea
Video filmed by: Joe Murdie
Tha Feelstyle - Tha anthem ( Aotearoa Hiphop vol 1, 1998). Produced by DJ Raw, recorded in his garage. Assisted by DJ Pause (Ritchie Mills). Singing by Leva Finau.
Tha Feelstyle is the stage name of award winning hip hop artist Kas Futialo, a New Zealander of Samoan descent. His first album was Break It To Pieces in 2004. Tha Feelstyle was born in Samoa and moved to New Zealand in the 1980s. He raps in English as well as the Samoan language.
History
Tha Feelstyle entered his first rap competition in 1987 and under the name of RIQ was part of the Wellington hip hop duo Rough Opinion with Samoan rapper K.O.S. In the 1990s, he was a member of The Overstayers which included King Kapisi and DJ Raw (aka Ian Seumanu). He has also worked with Andy Morton (aka The Submariner) an experienced producer in Auckland who has worked with various New Zealand artists including King Kapisi and Che Fu. The music video for Tha Feelystyle's award winning single Suamalie/Ain't Mad at You was filmed in Samoa and directed by New Zealand filmmaker Chris Graham, the director of feature film Sione's Wedding. The track also featured in the movie. In 2009, Tha Feelstyle is touring New Zealand with King Kapisi. In 2008, Tha Feelstyle released the Samoan-language album Lokokasi. In March 2011, He released his third album Good Morning Samoa, at the Pasifika Festival. Good Morning Samoa was nominated for three awards at the 2012 Pacific Music Awards - for Best Pacific Male Artist, Best Pacific Language album, and Best Pacific Music Album.