Album :: Creation
as explained by Rewben M

Nathemsak
Folk song
This song exalts the creator for his wonderful work. The Universe, the Sun, the Moon and the stars sings his praise.

Kahaothei
Folk song
This song compares the life of a man and the horse-chestnut (kahaothei). Like the wild nuts, while in abundance on the branches it beautifies the village. They fall on the ground one day and awaits the nut gatherers for a timely harvest lest they decay.

Keo Keo
Folk song
Our forefathers sang songs to ease the strain of hard work and also to make work more pleasant. This folk song is sung by both the menfolk and the womenfolk while involved in the pounding and husking of rice in big wooden mortars in a festive mood.

Matha-Ngasaksa
Rewben
An appeal to the people to strengthen the society by coming together and imbibing all the good values from our culture.

Kaphung Kapha
Akhothing & Rewben
This is a song expressing the partriotism of a native. Our motherland cannot be gotten for silver or gold.

Raipheichak
N Chamroy
A tale of a struggling people's cry in the wilderness for peace and freedom. The anger, the frustrations, the joy and glory of such a movement is captured in this song.

Ngasam Kuiga
Rewben
A love song about a young man lost in a world where he longs for a heart wherein he could take shelter. (A dormitory group song sung among young menfolk and womenfolk as a sort of courting)

Chongkhom Philava
Shan and Rewben
This song celebrates the beauty of Lady Chongkhom. The freshness of youth like the black thorned flowers, bloom in the heart of young people that Rewben calls out to. He says that the lady Chongkhom is the princess of the mountains.

Shairengwon
Rewben
This is basically a poem comparing the two different worlds of wild orchids and human beings. Man is self-centered and selfish but the beauty of orchids beautify the wild.

Iwui Shim
Rewben
Shimrui Timrawon (Shirui lily) is a world renowned flower which blooms only on the mountain Kashong in Ukhrul District (Manipur). Her fame is destroying her very existence now that humans want to pluck and have her. This song is about her epitome of beauty and all that in the world which stands vulnerable to human greed.

Ishola (Yaho)
Awo Ma
Torn between his commitment and desire, a man tells his love (Ishola) that he will surely return home one day when the war he is presently fighting is won.

Ngayin Khavai Pamna
Pastor Athel
This song has been adapted from a popular church hymn "Shelter in the time of storm".

Thakmeida Zatlo
Stephen and Ki Envy
God calls everyone to be in his army. This song is about the king's call to his people.

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