Family Tree/Tō Kātua Whānau

The new version of ‘Tō Kātua Whānau’ arrives alongside a studio recording of ‘Family Tree’ in English, which follows on from the most recent Fly My Pretties releases of The Studio Recordings Parts One & Two, presenting songs from the catalogue recorded in studio for the first time.

– A press release for the song, Loop website, 2 September 2022

Parihaka people used the drum to call back to the military who had a drum because it’s quite an English thing to do to have your marching band and to be like, we're here, we're terrorising you, basically. And so they were like, well, we're going to have our own drum. So that's quite a significant thing, because most marae don't have a marching band bass drum as their taonga.

– Barnaby Weir on the drum Wharehoka Wano plays in the song, Stuff, 19 September 2022