Peroveta: Prophet Songs

I grew up listening to prophet songs or what we Motuans call Peroveta in my childhood days. Back in those days around the early 90's to late 90's where many of our elderly people were still alive, in every village gathering you would hear them singing this lovely songs.

All I know about Peroveta is that it was taught to our ancestors by the early missionaries that came from the LMS and Pacific islands. I know this for sure because most of the songs that they sing are in either Cook Island or Rarontonga languages (I know a few). Here's what pngtips says about peroveta.

Grandpa back in the early 70s.

Anyway, I was fortunate enough to learn some of this songs and just last year while we were being taught a peroveta by our United Church Madang chaplain Kore Mavara and the marama I decided to record two of the songs. Although I had the chance of listening to many many peroveta's sung by my grandfather and grandmother I didn't think of recording them. Now that my grandfather is gone I sometimes wish I could have done this a long time ago (but then I didn't have the knowledge nor the tools back then anyhow).

These were just recorded last year during our preparations for LMS. I didn't have any better recording apps on my laptop but I did have Camtasia which is not a good tool for pure audio recording though but I had no choice I had to record these. Anyway hope you enjoy listening to them.

Warning: Raw mp3 records, no editing done on them. You might here someone coughing at some point. Hehe...
Here are the songs

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