Sven's The SOUND of TIKI CD -preview and discussion - Tiki Music

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Mon, Nov 2, 2009 1:44 PM Well, Hapa Haole is certainly Polynesian pop, but more Hawaiiana and pre-Tiki. Yet, if the wave of Hawaiian music would not have hit the U.S. in the 1910s and 20s like it did, the first Bamboo hideaways would have never been built. And the truth is that Hapa Haole probably got more play in Tiki joints in the form of live bands and floor shows than Exotica did -which only in retrospect has been identified as THE perfect musical form for a Tiki environment. But the spirit of Exotica, (and its success which time period-wise paralleled the rise of Tiki culture), is all TIKI! Hate to tell you Lucas, but Hapa Hale is only represented by Paul Page (in two songs) and one by The Surfers. Both not exactly "pure" examples of the genre, but pertaining to my concept. Bernie Kaye Lewis' guitar on the Paul Page pieces really is what makes them that. All in all this compilation is a subjective view of what I see makes up the Sound of Tiki.

Well, Hapa Haole is certainly Polynesian pop, but more Hawaiiana and pre-Tiki. Yet, if the wave of Hawaiian music would not have hit the U.S. in the 1910s and 20s like it did, the first Bamboo hideaways would have never been built.

And the truth is that Hapa Haole probably got more play in Tiki joints in the form of live bands and floor shows than Exotica did -which only in retrospect has been identified as THE perfect musical form for a Tiki environment. But the spirit of Exotica, (and its success which time period-wise paralleled the rise of Tiki culture), is all TIKI!

Hate to tell you Lucas, but Hapa Hale is only represented by Paul Page (in two songs) and one by The Surfers. Both not exactly "pure" examples of the genre, but pertaining to my concept. Bernie Kaye Lewis' guitar on the Paul Page pieces really is what makes them that.

All in all this compilation is a subjective view of what I see makes up the Sound of Tiki.

Post #491525 by bigbrotiki on Mon, Nov 2, 2009 1:44 PM