Post #80834 by kooche on Sun, Mar 14, 2004 10:20 PM

reader

speaking purely as a hawaiian music lover...by this i mean i am a lover of ALL music from all eras...i like singers...the human voice is a fantastic thing indeed...flasetto is particularly interesting to me...

i DO NOT do 45s period...waste of your life if you want me to speak frankly

my take on exotica is this...it's ALL good and funny and noisey and effects on drums...GREAT...BEAT...STRANGE and original compositions from local settings RULE...but SOMETIMES someone somewhere feels the need to sing a song that is more than happy or sad...MAD...BLUES... or is it sad? classic vocal stylings in hawaii exploded with blues in the 20-30s

R&B is good...rock is great ...funk is great and purely an eastern american marching thing to me...hawaii peaked in the 20s LATEand 30s EARLY with it's mind busting high pitched and lonesome crooners and SLOW stringed stylings...this is not an essay on hip hop...it is merely THIS ETHNOMUSICOLOGIST'S ear's hypothesis...

i am not sorry because it's what i personally LIKE about hawaii's sound...Kalama's Quartet is AS good as ANY classical recording from any era ... my heart breaks for them!

guitar wizardry invented recording...and guitar stylings were refined on the islands in hawaii first...that signature sound IS the big guitar sound from way out west that called the white man wagontraining over everyone in his way to find out from whence the unforgetable sounds echoed...i am not alone in my love of hawaiian music no matter it's era...

[ Edited by: kooche on 2004-03-14 23:19 ]