Music that's like nothing else you've ever heard.
And you got lots of astoundingly beautiful pure Hawaiian Lots of love songs, but they're more often aboutĬhildren. You got pop songs about teenage lifestyles, about Hawaiian Like Hawaii itself, the music gathers influences from all over You got reggae (Jawaiian), calypso and cajun.Ĭhiming African electric guitars. What are you going to find? Well, you have the kind of reliance onĪcoustic instruments that you find in midcontinental bluegrass. So when you listen to Hawaiians playing contemporary Hawaiian music,
Surely you never for a moment thought they Music," like The 101 Strings Play 101 Island Favorites, and those are not, Those albums you find at your local record store, under "World Listening to local music stations on Oahu and Maui, taped many moreĭozens of hours, and never heard a single song, not a single note, byĭon Ho. That most humans have this untapped capacity, and just need the proper The capacity to hear it, but it had lain dormant for decades. Section of my brain, and made Hawaiian music click. Restaurants, finally bored through my skull and activated an unfamiliar Playing in Woolworth's, in jukeboxes, in record stores, in bars and in Requested every evening on the Hawaiian music stations, a song that was Performers, trying to earn a living from the tourist trade.)įinally, two years later, a monotonous pop tune the kids Should have drank more, because the bars are filled with great Walking among musical demigods on the streets of Waikiki. Gathering of talent like both Woodstock's plus the next five ones. Realize that I was eating at Chili's and Jack-In-The-Box with a So I flew ten thousand miles and listened to the same old shit. Three surfaces to magnify the bass? With a little, um, imagination, itĬan sound pretty good.) I listened to old Led Zeppelin tunes all (You know, if you stick a tiny little clock radioĭown into the corner of the hotel room, on the floor, you can use all Little portable clock radio, one of the local stations was having a Led But when the weekend came, and I felt like cranking up my Was a business project that brought me there, so I worked. The first time I went to Hawai'i, I wasted two weeks. Hidden Hawai'i, In Your Head? by Art Hadley (May 1997)
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