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Is "Tiki" Tiki?

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no

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Zeta posted on Wed, Oct 19, 2011 11:39 AM

Bilge!

Zeta, that's ignorant

J

Chucky... Read it, Learn it, Live it...

"Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it"

Winston Churchill

What? no one get the Joke? oh well off to bilge then.....

Seriously folks, enough is enough already, can't we just have some fun
and enjoy this Tiki thing we got going on?

T

hey Chuck, it made me laugh and I needed one today. :)

thanks and aloha, tikicoma

On 2011-10-19 12:52, Hakalugi wrote:

Is that Jonestown? That's chilling! I don't remember seeing that image before.

T

I don't know , is he?

I was told by an elder that it was called Tiki Tiki.

( sounds like Ticca Ticca )

.... that's what I roll with.

Thanks Ben!

Just to comply with the thread rules, I will ask
So how many Tikis have been spotted in the new "Hawaii 5.0" so far?

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N...E...R...D...S hummmmm what you saying Chris?
and where are your very "Tiki" videos been as of late?

So how many Tikis do you have in all your videos now?

"tiki" is not tiki when it's "tiki-taka"

Tkki aint "Tiki" no more ever since he retired.

Enough of this .....

Come on man, think of something else to enlighten this forum.

DC

Don't worry this will be sent to bilge fast enough, Dusty
gross picture by the way. :lol:

And now we are home in bilge, where we belong, who wants a cocktail?

Asian Britney Spears!

what follows is a text description of what happened next: (chuck throws his hands in the air screaming!
starts to run around in circles manically until he trips on a table leg and fall's head first into a door jamb
sustaining a open head wound (superficial luckily) who now is bummed that he has blood stains on his favorite
T-Shirt)

Thanks Lucas!

Maybe "Tiki" is Tiki?
counterpoint,anyone?

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TM

Er, no! Not tiki,but it sure is cool as shit!

along the same lines:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIEO8IfTx1s

9:49 of tune-up time?

Lucas, that was something else!
But as to Tiki Taanes' Tangaroa performance not being tiki, the Maori staff/war club some of the men wielded is a Taiaha and I read that the Taiaha is, itself, seen as a guardian ancestor related to the war god Tumatauenga, the father of the first man Tiki.
discuss, aloha tikicoma

Love the Maori Haka influence, Lucas, What do you think of Philip Glass?

I'll be honest, not really a huge fan. I prefer other minimilist composers. But out of all of them, my favorite would be John cage, especially his pieces for prepared piano. In them, he manages to really introduce an exotic element, alternatingly making them sound like wood blocks, gamelans, congas, and marimbas being played.


http://soundcloud.com/lucas-vigor/sets/set-3/

"yer jus not tuned into the series of tubes yet, let it soak in".

[ Edited by: Lucas Vigor 2011-11-18 14:55 ]

TM

Regarding Jon hassell...in my mind, he was always a purveyor of latterday exotica. Though, like the Maori clip, it is real solemn stuff, lacking the tounge-in-cheek humor of classic exotica. Jon hassell always called his music "4th world music", representing the cultural interface between primitive societies and modern technology. Here is something a little more upbeat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiAClk31fgo&feature=related

here he plays some classics:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXmj9QcosoU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqDF7ncAc8g

Lucas, when it comes to Jazz I am old school, But I gotta say I did not mind it, Had a nice groove going on.

TM

definitely, Chuck.

I am a huge fan of Miles Davis, but mostly I like classic west coast jazz. Less esoteric, more melodic. Then again, I am also a fan of crossover jazz...but don't tell anyone!

Jon Hassell, I guess could loosely be characterized as modern jazz...but, he actually came from the orchestral world. Noteably, he was on the orginal recording of a famous Steve Reich piece called, "in C". That is a minimalist work that does owe alot to Phillip Glass, by the way!

Interestingly, one of Jon hassell's early recordings was called "earthquake island", and the liner notes read like your typical liner notes of say, a Les Baxter album.

There are so many unexpected associations in music. Like everything has 6 degrees of separation to something else. Of course, I maintain that hippy music really is the polar opposite of tiki music. For a lot of reasons.

Miles Davis was the Man.

TM

Oh yeah! The album "Milestones" is my absolute favorite!

HJ

If we have to ask, Is Tiki Tiki," must we also query...

  • Was Elvis Elvis?

  • Is booze booze?

  • Are transvestites exotica girls?

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