Rāhara Tito-Taylor

Photographer: Symphony Morunga

Photographer: Te Rawhitroa Photography

TIDE 3 View work here

Photographer: Te Rawhitroa Photography

ORO NGĀTAHI View work here

Photographer: Te Rawhitroa Photography

RERENGĀTAHI View work here

TAIOHI 2023

Ko Tangihua te maunga
Ko Wairoa te awa
Ko Tāhuhu Nui a Rangi te waka
Ko Tirarau te marae
Ko Ngāpuhi Nui Tonu, Ngāti Whātua ki Kaipara, me Waikato Tainui ngā iwi
Ko Parawhau, Uriroroi, me Ngāti Mahuta ngā hapū

Rāhara (aka Larsen) Tito-Taylor is a multi-dimensional artist, primarily working with sonic mediums via taonga puoro, improvisation, and recording/music production. The whakapapa of Rāhara traces back to Tangiteroria in the mid-north and his community connections are firmly rooted in Tāmaki Makaurau. Rāhara is the founder of Noa Records, a pan-Moana ‘record label’ with a core intent of platforming Māori/Tagata Moana/indigenous alternative musicians and artists. In 2021 he received an Arts Foundation Springboard Award, an award which recognises and supports creatives with outstanding potential to pursue an arts career, and was tasked with composing the score for Nova Paul’s short film ‘Hawaiki’ which was part of the Sundance Short Films selection for 2023. Rāhara continues to work in compositional, improvisational and music performance spaces, finding unique ways to interface between the different worlds he inhabits through his creative practice while striving to summon new modes of connection and transformation between people and places.