13th Floor New Song Of The Day: Teeks – Remember Me

Oh boy have we got a beauty for you today…a lovely new song from Teeks entitled Remember Me.

We had the pleasure of running into Teeks last night at The Tuning Fork, along with the lovely Estère, who were there to take in the magnificent sounds of Deva Mahal (more on that show later today at 13th Floor)

So get your Friday off on the right foot with this stunning performance. Here’s the record company blurb:

Emerging from the storm surrounding the acclaimed release of part ‘I’, a four-track collection of elegant songs about love and self-knowledge, celebrated Māori singer-songwriter TEEKS (Te Karehana Gardiner-Toi) shares another precious inkling of more with ‘Remember Me’ – his new single out today.

The soaring anthem comes accompanied by TEEKS’ directorial debut, in an emotionally intricate video created by a Māori-led crew. The video was produced by Mia Henry-Teirney and co-directed by Ray Edwards and was shot in Auckland, New Zealand.

‘Remember Me’ is the answer to every question about a longing heart.

ABOUT TEEKS:
New Zealand Māori singer-songwriter TEEKS emerged to national acclaim in 2017 with the release of his debut EP ‘The Grapefruit Skies​’. A concise exploration of love and loss, as rendered through the naivety of youth and a soulful musical vocabulary informed by music across generations, ​‘The Grapefruit Skies​’ opened doors for TEEKS across his home country. What really sealed the deal though, was his concerts, where an ostensible initial shyness quickly gave way to a rare level of vulnerability – vibrating with an intensity that creates deeply relatable meaning out of life’s moments of pain and pleasure.

Over the next two years, TEEKS captivated audiences across New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom, while collecting several prestigious local music awards and nominations, most notably ‘Best Māori Artist’ at the Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards. At the apex of his first wave, TEEKS played the Auckland Town Hall, bringing the Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra with him for a historical sold-out performance.

After ‘The Grapefruit Skies’, TEEKS returned to the studio for an introspective period of hard-won personal and artistic growth. He found solace in a complete surrender to emotion, the rejection of colonised masculinity, and the duality of Te Ao Māori: the worldview of his indigenous people.

Celebrated by Vogue (who declared TEEKS as “New Zealand’s Soulful Singer To Know”), his most recent material including single ‘Without You’ and ‘​I’, ​an accompanying four-track collection of elegant songs about love and self-knowledge, point the way to his forthcoming debut album, due for release in February 2021.

As the world sits on the precipice of potentially poignant change, TEEKS asks that we might look inside ourselves and reconnect with what we’ve lost. The waters of emotion have never run deeper, but as we enter their depths, we might just rediscover what really matters.