KOMMI me ana Taipō KOMMI is a non-binary solo music artist, recording and performance collaborator, writer, poet, swampwitch, and a lecturer in Māori and Indigenous Studies and Te Reo Māori, based in Ōhinehou-Lyttelton, Christchurch. Their Witch-Hop / Swamp-Hop music is all delivered in te reo Kāi Tahu, the dialect of the largest iwi within Te Waipounamu. KOMMI is most recently known for their discombobulating stage shows with a full live witch-hop band along with their onstage spooks and supernatural beings. Largely ao wairua (metaphysical/spiritual), part mauri tau (chill), part mauri hihiko (hyper), and somewhat theatrical in places, this is a show not to be missed. It will slither up and worm its way through you, then carry you through a philosophical reconciliation with KOMMI’s own personal taipō (spooks, goblins, ghosts). KOMMI’s music retains a unique indigenous Kāi Tahu world view in which they explore kaupapa such as being haunted, whaiwhaiā (witchcraft), counteracting curses, lovespells and tūrehu (faerie-like people), also visions of death and escapism, and cautionary tales to avoid shitty people. They also perform songs about being hōhā – with many things, including the current three-headed kiore of a government - and songs about the pigs. KOMMI’s new EP ‘TAUWHENUA’ is a collaboartive effort with aclaimed producer Infectiouss, which consists of exquisitely spooky and spellbinding te reo Māori rap songs. Ekari ekari! Eaoia!