Show us your record collection! - Tiki Music

K Kaiwaza Tiki Socialite Waikiki Beach, Hawaii Joined: Aug 06, 2003 Posts: 563	K Kaiwaza Posted posted on Wed, Nov 18, 2009 1:20 PM Here's an Italian release by L'orchestra hawaiiana di Kaumakani. Well, not really. It's all Arthur Lyman selections released under a pseudonym. I guess they weren't able to release this music under his actual name, or perhaps it's just bootlegged..?...probably not. The Gene Rains Group was "discovered" by Alfred Apaka and he arranged for their subsequent gigs at the Hilton Hawaiian Hotel's Shell Bar. Obviously, a Martin Denny copycat group, they had great success and recorded several records mostly on Decca. This album Rains in the tropics seems the most difficult to find these days. Tracks include: Shangri-la, Jasmine & jade, Tiki, Off shore, Lonely winter, etc. Very beautiful, both the music & the cover art. The rites of Diablo on Forum by Johnny Richards is a hot little album. A kind of crazy jazz, bongo salute to the Bantu of South Africa. (As if they had any clue, but it sounded good). The suite has 6 movements: Omo ado (Son of a libertine), Kele kele (The smooth one), La pecadora (The shrew), Ochun (Goddess Afrodita Yoruba), Oluo anu (Return of the dead), Ofo (Dance of the dead)...you get the picture. Finally today, a sweet little find from the UK, Strange enchantment featuring husband & wife vocalists David & Marianne Dalmour. This 1966 album has really grown on me and I've come to really enjoy their moody harmonics. From the liner notes: "Marianne Dalmour is strikingly beautiful. Although, like her husband, she comes from the north of England, she looks like an Inca princess when she is singing." Selections include the title song plus It happened in Kaloha, Blue Bahamas, Moon over Miami, Kalua lullaby, Red sails in the sunset, etc. This would be a welcomed cd reissue, I'd think. The lovely Dalmours

Here's an Italian release by L'orchestra hawaiiana di Kaumakani. Well, not really. It's all Arthur Lyman selections released under a pseudonym. I guess they weren't able to release this music under his actual name, or perhaps it's just bootlegged..?...probably not.

The Gene Rains Group was "discovered" by Alfred Apaka and he arranged for their subsequent gigs at the Hilton Hawaiian Hotel's Shell Bar. Obviously, a Martin Denny copycat group, they had great success and recorded several records mostly on Decca. This album Rains in the tropics seems the most difficult to find these days. Tracks include: Shangri-la, Jasmine & jade, Tiki, Off shore, Lonely winter, etc. Very beautiful, both the music & the cover art.

The rites of Diablo on Forum by Johnny Richards is a hot little album. A kind of crazy jazz, bongo salute to the Bantu of South Africa. (As if they had any clue, but it sounded good). The suite has 6 movements: Omo ado (Son of a libertine), Kele kele (The smooth one), La pecadora (The shrew), Ochun (Goddess Afrodita Yoruba), Oluo anu (Return of the dead), Ofo (Dance of the dead)...you get the picture.

Finally today, a sweet little find from the UK, Strange enchantment featuring husband & wife vocalists David & Marianne Dalmour. This 1966 album has really grown on me and I've come to really enjoy their moody harmonics. From the liner notes: "Marianne Dalmour is strikingly beautiful. Although, like her husband, she comes from the north of England, she looks like an Inca princess when she is singing." Selections include the title song plus It happened in Kaloha, Blue Bahamas, Moon over Miami, Kalua lullaby, Red sails in the sunset, etc. This would be a welcomed cd reissue, I'd think.

The lovely Dalmours

Post #494517 by Kaiwaza on Wed, Nov 18, 2009 1:20 PM