In sold-out performances on four islands, with fiercely powerful chant and dance handed down for as many as 300 years, Halau o Kekuhi brought to the stage the saga of Pele, the goddess of volcanoes, and Hiiaka, her sister.
Was it the crowd's powerful chant that carried their team to success?
As on Hapa's most recent album, "Maui" (Finn), Mr. Ka'upu delivered several powerful chants.
This is an album of gutsy, declamatory playing and singing, from the slow and then exuberant traditional love song El Barm to the powerful, chanting Tikifite, a Dimi Mint Abba favourite.
What we said: "This is an album of gutsy, declamatory playing and singing, from the slow and then exuberant traditional love song El Barm to the powerful, chanting Tikifite", wrote Robin Denselow in the Guardian.
One activist and blogger, Mostafa Hussein, who writes on Twitter as @moftasa, argued that while it was "arrogant" of the police to have attempted to drive through the site of the sit-in, the attack on them with stones and Molotov cocktails, "which many protesters were against, since already the trucks started leaving after powerful chanting, was also quite stupid".
Catching basslines are met with powerful chants, many of which de Song recorded himself, of political speeches regarding de Song's fantastical Guzu Empire, and field recordings.
Sufi groups sing of divine love, drawing us in with powerful rhythmic chants.
Witness the children of Soweto in South Africa reverberate the impoverished air with music as they bring down apartheid or the children of Birmingham, Alabama ("Bombingham") evading powerful water jets chanting their songs in paddy wagons as they were taken away.
After joyful, powerful singing and chanting echoed off the marble, prayers were offered by a Rabbi, an Imam, and representatives from Baptist, Catholic, Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist and Presbyterian communities.
The chant is powerful because it is true.
