Rapa Nui Odyssey (2021)

Rapa Nui Odyssey came about when software executive Dave Fulton and his wife traveled to the Pacific Ocean island of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) and discovered pianist Mahani Teave teaching in her small music school there, playing on an upright piano that was apparently the first one ever brought to the island. It emerged that Teave, born in Hawaii but raised on Rapa Nui, had been trained on the Chilean mainland, at the Cleveland Institute of Music, and at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin, and toured ... Read More

Rapa Nui Odyssey came about when software executive Dave Fulton and his wife traveled to the Pacific Ocean island of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) and discovered pianist Mahani Teave teaching in her small music school there, playing on an upright piano that was apparently the first one ever brought to the island. It emerged that Teave, born in Hawaii but raised on Rapa Nui, had been trained on the Chilean mainland, at the Cleveland Institute of Music, and at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin, and toured internationally. Although signed to the Steinway & Sons label, she never released an album there. She returned to Rapa Nui to open her school and raise a family. Fulton made the arrangements for the present CD, all proceeds from which benefit the Toki Rapa Nui Music School. Listeners will want the physical CDs for this reason and also because this is likely the only album available with booklet notes in the Rapa Nui language. Furthermore, it would be a shame to miss the fine engineering from... Read Less