Post #609911 by Mr. Ho on Tue, Oct 11, 2011 11:02 PM

Yes, i did stand in for some guiro/bongo action i think with TYO! Fun guys!

emspace: as far as the rest, for what it's worth, i didn't set out to try to do something different - just set out to do what I do :wink: I have a very small collection of mostly denny and lyman and a few baxter records (and lots of esquivel) - hardly large compared to most music fans here. Most of the original music WAITIKI did and my own group, while different, do not adhere much to the classic exotica I have heard (beyond the instrumentation and desire to take the listener on a story/journey.) Perhaps that alone is enough to define the genre for me!

And i have to say: I haven't heard a lot of oud+vibe+bass flute+bulgarian music with taksim (open solo) rooted in an arabic maqam before - whether called exotica or anything else! So please, point me to some more of this stuff if somebody's doing it as I'd love to hear it :wink:

Mr. Ho

On 2011-10-11 20:34, emspace wrote:
Kaiwaza, I take very strong exception to the idea that the general public should be trusted to define what Tiki is. VERY...strong...exception.

But if everyone insists it's true, then so be it: trilobites and cart racing are Tiki, and so is Hank Williams.

Mr. Ho, your stuff is pure exotica, completely influenced by the old school, so whatever influences you may have, my 30+ years as a muso tell me this is not exactly some shatteringly new approach. That's intended as compliment BTW. Very nice pure-drop exotica.

So, whether or not you know it or are happy about it: you have internalized and made use of something that does seem after all to be codifiable.