A 29-track double CD with a 24-page booklet

The reviewers continue to praise Mahinarangi as ... "a breathtaking singer" .

"an extraordinary voice"... "A wonderful vocalist with an intricate, jazzy sense of phrasing" ... Mahinarangi Tocker can deliver the goose-flesh tingling sensation of witnessing greatness" ......

the mongrel in me is a 29-song collection about love, loss, desire and heritage that comes from Mahinarangi's emotional and musical expressions with respect to her Maori, Hebrew and Celtic ancestry.

For this recording Mahinarangi has assembled all of the musicians she has been performing with recently at festivals such as WOMAD and NZ International Arts Festival ... Shona Laing (vocals/piano), James Wilkinson (vocals/guitars), David Downes (piano, drums, vocals) Anahera Higgins (vocals/bodhran), Ashley Brown (cello) and Denny Stanway (vocals/ bodhran) and Jimmy Young (northumbrian pipes, bodhran, tin whistle, vocals) of 'Rua" fame. Also appearing on four of the tracks is prominent composer and trumpet player extraordinaire, Ross Harris.

Track Listing:

1. Ko Te Ao Marama
2. Love Is A Grand Thing
3. Taku Kotiro
4. My Love Be Still
5. Winter
6. Spinnning
7. Like I Used To
8. Start Again
9. Talking
10. Good Memories
11. Here Where We Remain
12. From Good To Wrong
13. The Wild Winged Messenger
14. The Bee Kepper's Son From Tuakau
15. Thanks To You

Disc 2:

1. Tenei Ahau E Haere Ana I Te Whenua
2. I Am Walking On This Land
3. Te Oranga
4. Arnold Brooker
5. These Blue Eyes
6. Dream Of Same
7. Paint The Sky
8. Sweet Heart
9. Ending
10. I Was Deaf Then
11. He Poroporoaki
12. As I Went Wawlking By The Water
13. Forever
14. Extra Track For Robbie

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