Post #277727 by tikibars on Tue, Jan 9, 2007 2:35 PM

After the amazing reception to his performance at Hukilau 2005, Robert Drasnin has spent the past year writing Voodoo 2, the long-awaited follow up to his amazing 1959 release, Voodoo.

He plans to record it old-school style, with a full compliment of musicians in a real recording studio. No basement Cubase recordings here.

Although the CD will be released by Dionysus this spring, Drasnin has to pay for the recording himself. It looks like he'll be spending $15,000 to $20,000, which, frankly, is probably more than he will make on sales of the CD (face it, Exotica is a niche market these days, and a rather small one).

He is making this record for one reason, and that is because of the enthusiasm and aloha that WE, the Exotica and Tiki fans, have shown him recently. You guys would not believe how honored, thrilled, and touched he was by the warmth showed to him and his work at Hukilau 2005.

In order to defray the cost of the recording (which he told me is going to happen "come hell or high water"), and to make this record do-able without Bob ending up deep in the red, there is a fundraiser being launched.

EDIT (March 1, 2007):

The fundraiser has ended.

The Tiki community raised about 20%-25% of the total recording budget, which amounts to several thousand dollars.

The record was made in February, 2007, and will be out this spring.

Please see Robert Drasnin's web site or his MySpace for news about the CD release.

http://www.robertdrasnin.com

http://www.myspace.com/drasnin

[ Edited by: tikibars 2007-02-28 23:00 ]