Scary "tiki" music!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G8PnfN0kiQ&feature=player_embedded#

Very nice. Good lighting and video effects, choreography with the poi balls and taiahas, costumes, moko, greenstone jewelry. The audience seemed to enjoy it and was respectful, I wish the same could be said for the YouTube commenters. If something on YouTube isn't your cup of tea just quietly go away without leaving a comment to show your ignorance - but that's a rant for another day :)

WOW!!!!!

I really like this! :)

Thanks for posting lucas!

Cheers and Mahalo,
Jeff

It's funny, but they want to scare the japanese whaling fleet....but the Japanese also have some pretty scary music:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dark883eH3s&feature=related

( I wanted to find a clip of "kodo", but it would not load)

Anyway, I am with them all the way. I just think they should not waste their time trying to scare them with music. They have to find a way to educate people and reduce the demand for whale products...my two cents at least.

as far as the youtube comments, I agree! These rude posters always use a lot of foul langauge in thier comments. I never understood why youtube does not remove them, or put the filter in which won't allow you to type certain words even.

It has a lot of similarity, musically speaking, to the last Dead Can Dance album. I think I read somewhere that Brandan Perry learned to play from a Maori musician when he lived in New Zealand as a youth.

And what's up with the skinny white guy up front with the keyboard, he doesn't look like he fits in. They couldn't put him in back behind the dancers? :lol:

On 2009-12-18 15:18, quickiki wrote:
It has a lot of similarity, musically speaking, to the last Dead Can Dance album. I think I read somewhere that Brandan Perry learned to play from a Maori musician when he lived in New Zealand as a youth.

Just an "oh by the way", but speaking of Dead Can Dance and Maori culture, Lisa Gerrard (of DCD) composed the soundtrack for "Whale Rider".

I'm going to be playing the song in the video linked below on my Dec. 30 radio show on Fairfax Public Access/WEBR, Dr. Zarkov's Tiki Lounge. I apologize for the sound quality on the video, but I plan to use the CD version which is much, much better. I don't know Spanish but I have a sneaking suspicion the lyrics have nothing to do with Tiki gods or Mai Tais. I love it though, and plan to intermix it with some other Latin-flavored dance, jazz and exotica, including Tito Puente, Sidestepper and Bob Holroyd, if I have the time to shoehorn it all in during a one-hour show. Here is the El Tiki Tiki video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gccrOZQvw6Q

This might not be as scary as the Maori anti-whaling song, but it's sure to raise the hackles of the purists who hate the fact I played some Mickey Hart on my show a few weeks ago.

On 2009-12-19 13:44, Dr. Zarkov wrote:
it's sure to raise the hackles of the purists who hate the fact I played some Mickey Hart on my show a few weeks ago.

Did you get a lot of negative feedback about playing that stuff?

On 2009-12-19 14:49, lucas vigor wrote:

On 2009-12-19 13:44, Dr. Zarkov wrote:
it's sure to raise the hackles of the purists who hate the fact I played some Mickey Hart on my show a few weeks ago.

Did you get a lot of negative feedback about playing that stuff?

None, really, but then again I don't know if anyone is actually listening to my show. You never know, though, someone could have been quietly fuming over it.

So, your statement about "raising the hackles of purists" was based on what exactly?

I am probably the only member of Tiki central that is not into the hippy music scene. Everyone else here seems fine with it, and fine with fitting it in with "tiki", or fine with making some sort of connection between Hippy and Tiki. (of course, as I said, in my opinion the two styles are polar opposites. As different as say, Trisha Yearwood and Bela Bartok) So, who are these purists you are referring to?

On 2009-12-19 15:42, lucas vigor wrote:
So, your statement about "raising the hackles of purists" was based on what exactly?

I am probably the only member of Tiki central that is not into the hippy music scene. Everyone else here seems fine with it, and fine with fitting it in with "tiki", or fine with making some sort of connection between Hippy and Tiki. (of course, as I said, in my opinion the two styles are polar opposites. As different as say, Trisha Yearwood and Bela Bartok) So, who are these purists you are referring to?

I guess it was you. I had no idea it is a measure of the full-throated democracy of TC that one voice like yours could inspire an entire six-page thread on Mickey Hart's music. I also was assuming that you possibly speak for a quiet segment of poly-pop purists out there in TC-land. I think those who countered your view of Hart were separating his later work from his Grateful Dead output (I find some of his "Planet Drum" music fits quite nicely with Latin flavored pop and jazz). Personally, I love mixing genres in combinations that some people find surprising on my radio show, like blues, R&B, jazz, Hawaiian, Latin and Poly-pop. I am now working furiously in my mind for some way to link Trisha Yearwood and Bela Bartok, who like a lot of middle European composers of his era, drew a great deal from folk music.

[ Edited by: Dr. Zarkov 2009-12-20 11:02 ]

On 2009-12-20 09:07, Dr. Zarkov wrote:

On 2009-12-19 15:42, lucas vigor wrote:
So, your statement about "raising the hackles of purists" was based on what exactly?

I am probably the only member of Tiki central that is not into the hippy music scene. Everyone else here seems fine with it, and fine with fitting it in with "tiki", or fine with making some sort of connection between Hippy and Tiki. (of course, as I said, in my opinion the two styles are polar opposites. As different as say, Trisha Yearwood and Bela Bartok) So, who are these purists you are referring to?

I guess it was you. I had no idea it is a measure of the full-throated democracy of TC that one voice like yours could inspire an entire six-page thread on Mickey Hart's music. I also was assuming that you possibly speak for a quiet segment of poly-pop purists out there in TC-land. I think those who countered your view of Hart were separating his later work from his Grateful Dead output (I find some of his "Planet Drum" music fits quite nicely with Latin flavored pop and jazz). Personally, I love mixing genres in combinations that some people find surprising on my radio show, like blues, R&B, jazz, Hawaiian, Latin and Poly-pop. I am now working furiously in my mind for some way to link Trisha Yearwood and Bela Bartok, who like a lot of middle European composers of his era, drew a great deal from folk music.

[ Edited by: Dr. Zarkov 2009-12-20 11:02 ]

Like I said, I really don't think the purists even exist! I am probably the only one, actually. On this forum, I am very much a minority, in well, just about every subject we talk about here. probably the only thing I would agree with ever other poster here on is that Tiki bars are cool places. Other then that, probably not much.

But I really don't think I am all that mcuh a purist..I did hear the "Planet frog" track and I thought it was pretty good. (But Of course there is too much stuff I like way better, even in the same genre)..Every once in a while there comes something that I like, despite myself...

if by a purist you might say I pretty much only like and listen to music created before 1964, that would be very accurate. 1964, like 1492 is a very important year in human history.