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Medicine Man

Tama Waipara , Music Video – 2013

from the album Fill Up the Silence (2013)

“This song is called ‘Medicine Man’ because music is my medicine, and failing all else in life, music remains the constant no matter who else is there.” So said Tama Waipara of the first single from his third album Fill Up the Silence, which was rated Best Roots Album at the 2014 NZ Music Awards. The song’s beat is credited to a Papua New Guinean influence, but Jessica Sanderson’s video roams widely: from Pasifika and colonial drummers to carpark breakdancing and getting lost inside headphones in a laundromat, from poi to pop and lock — to where “love is in the music”. 

Key Cast & Crew

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Jessica Sanderson

Director, Editor

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Desray Armstrong

Producer

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Tammy Williams

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