This episode of the Kiwi Music Podcast features The 13th Floor's Marty Duda talking to Moana Maniapoto about her new single Toku Reo featuring Inka Mbing from Taiwan. 

Toku Reo is a music collaboration with the singer from the Atayal tribe, one of 16 indigenous tribes in Taiwan. Inka defied the taboo on women not singing traditional songs and had been punished – like Māori - for speaking their native language in school. Now she is celebrated for helping keep the language alive. Moana Maniapoto and producer Paddy Free visited Inka and started a conversation with her about the loss of language and its revitalisation in Aotearoa/New Zealand. They recorded the song Tōku Reo, based on the lyrics by Scotty Morrison, sung in Atayal and Māori, both of which belong to the Austronesian language family. Tōku Reo  pays tribute to the language of both cultures and is released worldwide on Friday, September 18th, 2020.