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Piwaka (taken from the Maori word for a New Zealand-native bird) is the solo project of Kiwi, Josh McGettigan. Taken from the Maori word for a New Zealand-native bird, the moniker is a head-nod towards his home country, although, with a half-decade spent living in various parts of South America and Europe, the name also suits a man who likes to take flight. Influenced by the finger-picking style and alternate tunings of Jose Gonzalez, the all-in-one method of jazz guitarist Martin Taylor, and with other influences including Bibio, Sufjan Stevens, Beirut and Radiohead, McGettigan refuses to accept that more than one guitar and a voice are required to create lush, dappled, and fulsome soundscapes. McGettigan originally learnt the piano as a child before focusing on the guitar throughout high-school. Since then, with his time spent playing lead guitar in indie-rock, blues-rock, and jazz bands, teaching himself the ukulele and the harmonica, assembling 12-piece ramshackle-orchestra