Tiki Joe and the Bamboo Band - Tiki Music

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Sun, Jun 19, 2011 12:07 AM Thank you so much Lucas for helping to uphold my adage "If it says Tiki on it, it should have Tiki in it!" This has nothing to do with elitism or snobbery, it just expresses the desire to retain the essence of what makes Tiki style unique, and separates it from other, often more generic "Island Lifestyle" themes. This concept is especially hard to grasp since Tiki seems like such a melange of various exotic cultures to begin with. It is indeed, but in its own specific way, which makes it so interesting. Since you showed some good U-Tube examples :) : I tried to shed some further light on the elements of Tiki style by producing a vintage Exotica compilation entitled "The Sound of Tiki", in which I connect certain concepts of Tiki culture with specific songs, with a 50 page booklet full of images illustrating these various concepts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxX-Sfu-I_0

Thank you so much Lucas for helping to uphold my adage "If it says Tiki on it, it should have Tiki in it!"

This has nothing to do with elitism or snobbery, it just expresses the desire to retain the essence of what makes Tiki style unique, and separates it from other, often more generic "Island Lifestyle" themes. This concept is especially hard to grasp since Tiki seems like such a melange of various exotic cultures to begin with. It is indeed, but in its own specific way, which makes it so interesting.

Since you showed some good U-Tube examples :) :

I tried to shed some further light on the elements of Tiki style by producing a vintage Exotica compilation entitled "The Sound of Tiki", in which I connect certain concepts of Tiki culture with specific songs, with a 50 page booklet full of images illustrating these various concepts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxX-Sfu-I_0

Post #594224 by bigbrotiki on Sun, Jun 19, 2011 12:07 AM