Post #480451 by TikiG on Mon, Aug 31, 2009 3:24 PM

Dear professahhummingflowah -

You know last week here in Southern Crappyfornia the weather was triple digit degrees in temperature...what the media has titled the "Station Fire" charred thousands of acres of Los Angeles hillsides and continues to do so today - which in turn creates the most God awful smelling smoke and air quality. My job's dead ahead - Thank God for a job at all but I'm a prisoner of the job, if you know what I mean. All in all another week of sheer HADES!

I arrive home last Friday evening pretty exhausted and basically gasping for precious breath and smelling of forest-fire smoke. I make my usual stop at the mailbox down the street and guess what? MY COPY OF WAITIKI 7 ADVENTURES IN PARADISE ARRIVED!!

At that precise moment I notice my racing heartbeat so what was I to do?

Hastily run home. Turn on the air-conditioning, change into comfy clothing and turn-off the phone. Prepare a day-long anticipated Mai Tai in my favorite tiki mug. Grab my favorite chair, place over my ears my favorite pair of stereo headphones, then quietly slip the CD into the stereo and listen. Listen is so mild a word to express this new listening experience. Its like when I was a kid in the 60s anticipating the latest British rock LP release. From the first second in - I WAS OFF, MAN!

I can't begin to describe the joy, the sheer power, the brilliant musicianship of all of WAITIKI 7. The pacing of this release is superb...a mind-blowing poly-pop psychedelic trip. I mean that in a good way, not in the hippy-dippy use of the P word. Waitiki and especially this new Waitiki 7 release is a sonic psychedelic experience, no sugar cubes necessary :) That's a major compliment professah. I got lost within the music. I forgot my So.Cal crap existence. Because of the music, my mind, my body, my soul was literally IN PARADISE!

The CD eventually ended so what was I to do? I listened to it again..

I know I'm going to hear & experience new things and emotions every time I spin this release. I still do that with the prior two releases of Waitiki to this day and I've listened to them extensively. These releases are what I listen to when I paint for relaxation.

God Bless you Waitiki 7 for the gift of prana (life force) I experience when I listen to your music.

Congratulations!