Includes B Company’s Captain Wi Patene Anaru (extreme left) and Private Te Tuahu Wikiriwhi (extreme right), both of Rotorua.

The singer-songwriter’s new album wasn’t intended to be political, but it arrives at a tense moment for Aotearoa politics.

The proposed law sought to redefine the terms of the nation’s founding treaty between Maori tribes and the British crown signed 180 years ago. The bill gained wide attention after a video of the ...