>From: leftover@lists.colorado.edu[SMTP:leftover@lists.colorado.edu] >Sent: Friday, February 13, 1998 6:24 PM >To: Leftover Salmon Disc. List >Subject: LEFTOVER digest 855 > > > > LEFTOVER Digest 855 > >Topics covered in this issue include: > > 1) Brozman & Kaapana, "Kika Kila Meets Ki Ho'Alu" (nLoSc) > by Timothy Lynch > 2) rumors.... > by Jim Abbott > 3) Mr.Fish may I have your... > by Christoph H Bayr > > ------ =_NextPart_001_01BD3D75.77B80AE0 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Timothy Lynch To: LoSers Subject: Brozman & Kaapana, "Kika Kila Meets Ki Ho'Alu" (nLoSc) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 21:55:27 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit HAWAIIAN STYLEE: BOB BROZMAN & LEDWARD KAAPANA, "KIKA KILA MEETS KI HO'ALU" (1997: Dancing Cat Records) Feb. 12, 1998 - da Flower Punk A lot of the music the world comes to love makes its mark by offering a kind of doorway to the soul. In the second half of the twentieth century, this music often has *an electric edge* to cut through layers of accumulated obstruction. Acoustic Hawaiian music is different than all that. There is something about the sound of the Hawaiian guitar that seems to have direct access to a very peaceful source-well of the human soul. These sounds do not need to mess with doorway or an edge. They're already *there*, where ever *that* is. Bob Brozman and Ledward Kaapana have put out a CD that will demonstrate that. "Kika Kila Meets Ki Ho'alu" is an *excellent* album. This is seventy-four minutes of guitar heaven. Bob Brozman, on a National steel guitar or a koa wood lap steel, duets with slack-key master Ledward Kaapana in a series of 14 near perfect instrumental tracks. Slack-key guitar (*ki ho'alu*) began to develop in the 1830s, when Spanish & Mexican cowboys helped introduce cattle and sheep ranching in the islands "up country." Hawaiians favored open- tunings for their finger-picked ruminations on life in the islands, and over time some tunings came to become closely guarded family secrets and traditions. For over one hundred years -- as many important Hawaiian cultural traditions were banned, stigmatized, emptied of meaning and finally commodified for tourist consumption -- the slack key guitar became a new tradition, a site for renewed expressions of the spirit of the people and land. When Gabby Pahanui started recording slack key -- and singing in Hawaiian on his records -- in the 1940s, the seeds were sown for the Hawaiian Renaissance which began in the 1960s and continues to this day. The Hawaiian steel guitar (*kika kila*), is more well known in the United States and internationally. The fine koa acoustics became popular in the late 1880s. They were developed in response to the fact that some Hawaiians had taken to playing their open-tuned guitars flat, on their laps, often using a small metal bar across the neck. The metal National guitar became extremely popular in the late 1920s and early 1930s, it's resonating amplification cones represented a transition toward electrification of the lap steel, which became widespread as World War Two began. The people of the United States developed an immediate and lasting fascination with the sounds of the lap steel. In 1916 they bought more recordings of lap steel guitar music than any other single kind. Between the World Wars, Hawaiian steel guitars were commonly found in touring dance bands and jazz orchestras on the American mainland and around the world. Bringing these two guitar traditions, especially in the hands of such skilled and knowledgeable practitioners as Bob Brozman and Ledward Kaapana, was a stroke of pure genius. The chiming harmonics, the floating notes, the intricate weaves of aloha for the land and the family, the spectacular intensity of swimming with the dolphins at dawn, and the languid relaxation of knocking back a cold one on the sand at sunset, it's all included on "Kika Kila Meets Ki Ho'alu." A great investment for your music collection. __________________________flowerpunkprods________________________ Dancing Cat Records is a division of Windham Hill dedicated to the recording of Hawaiian music. (Windham Hill is a subsidiary of BMG Records.) ------ =_NextPart_001_01BD3D75.77B80AE0 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Jim Abbott To: "leftover@lists.colorado.edu" Subject: rumors.... Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 01:03:23 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Re the LoS/SCI/moe. rumor: I heard a rumor today that Widespread might be on that bill as well....? Be still my heart! Anyone...? Peace 'n Love 'n Pasta springin' from the ground -Jim "Oh I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings." -High Flight, John Gillespie Magee, Jr. PS - Lennie, GREAT tapes - I'll be e-mailing you. Still grovelling after all this time: 10/16/97, and Hog Farm '96(Sat) ------ =_NextPart_001_01BD3D75.77B80AE0 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Christoph H Bayr To: "Leftover@lists.colorado.edu" Subject: Mr.Fish may I have your... Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 11:01:15 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hey everybody! Was wondering if any y'all had the time/inclination to spin some crispy tapes for blanks/postage?. I have some to trade but only one Salmon show to date. ...Wish! Peace Christoph ------ =_NextPart_001_01BD3D75.77B80AE0-- ------ =_NextPart_000_01BD3D75.77A74200--