Working on 2nd Album!
Kia Ora , Greetings, Hello to each and everyone. We have taken December of to start finalizing tracks for our 2nd album. We have some big surprises for this album that will be released in the press early Jan 2010.
We would like to thank everyone that has brought our first album Keep Rising it is still going hard now. We can’t wait for you all to hear the 2nd album.
Safe journeys and have a merry Christmas & a happy new year.
HOUSE OF SHEM
Summer Tour announced Now
Opononi, Ruakaka, Napier, Palmerston North, Tauranga, Coromandel to name a few from 2nd Jan - 16th Jan please stay in tune.
Australia Thank you so Much!!
FRIDAY 30th October - Hi-Fi Club, Westend, Brisbane
Thanks to all that come out to support House of Shem on our first trip out of the country, we were welcomed to a 1200 strong crowd with at least 3 to 400 outside that couldn’t get in arohamai sorry next time! Mihi Nui for your falas HAKA! that made us feel home straight away. Paua & DJ Dezastar opened up the show, we hit the stage at 10pm and rocked it for 2.5 Hours no break! you deserved it Australia!!! Roy got a little sick from eating something he shouldn’t have and had to leave the stage earlier then planned. But we kept the show vibing with Chris taking on more of a solo role wohoo. After the gig we caught up with whanau from the 12 Tribes of Israel base back in Aotearoa had a korero then shot back to the Accommodation in Rochedale. We would like to thank Godfrey, Dez & all the whanau for helping to make this concert a sellout, God Bless you all.
SATURDAY 31st October - Stradbroke Island, Island Vibes Festival
Pacific Herbs on Raggamuffin 2010
House of Shem will be the backing band for three of South Pacific Reggae ambassodors Toni Fonoti, Spencer Fusimalohi & Carl Perkins from the Legendary \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"HERBS\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\". More details coming soon! check out www.raggamuffin.co.nz
House Of Shem selected for the Australian Raggamuffin 2010 Tour!!!!
House of Shem are excited with been selected to perform along side international bands Wyclef, Steel Pulse, Julian Marley, Sean Kingston, Shaggy, Sly & Robbie & Blue King Brown on the Raggamuffin Australian tour in Jan 2010.
Bless
New tour dates for 2009 & 2010 up now! check them out
House of Shem Keep Rising Review
Strictly speaking, this album of well-crafted original reggae is in no way a product of the ....Hawaii.... recording industry.
The House of Shen is not from ..Hawaii.. (they are Maori), they did not do the work here (they recorded at home in ..New Zealand..) and none of the songs are about ....Hawaii...., per se. However, the Hawaii Academy of Recording Arts allows albums like this one to compete in the genre categories at the Na Hoku Hanohano Awards as long as they have been licensed for domestic release by a Hawaii-based record distributor.
Keep Rising has indeed been licensed, and since HARA defines this as a product of the local record industry, it can be covered here. Local reggae fans will find it worth a listen.
The title song calls for unity among Maori in ....New Zealand.... -- a theme equally relevant for Hawaiians. Several other selections contain similar politically conscious themes in warning of the dangers and temptations of ....Babylon...., and calling on people in high places to work for the good of the people rather than self-enrichment.
The group delivers these messages with solid, well-written instrumental arrangements. Tracks with romantic secular themes find them equally skilled in that genre. Based on what local acts have put out so far this year, House of Shen could be well a finalist -- if not the winner -- for best reggae album at the Hokus in 2010.
Keep Rising (Hawaii / States album Release)
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