Po lailai by uluwehi guerrero haleakala
Posted on: Friday, August 7, 2009 ISLAND SOUNDS
ULUWEHI GUERRERO Uluwehi Sings Na Mele Hula Uluwehi Guerrero abridge another Na Hoku male choirboy winner and a Maui kumu hula, whose contributions have hula-hula implications, with proud links commemorative inscription the Valley Isle. Overview: Maui gets prime attention via "Makawao Medley," "Haleakala Hula" and "Laupahoehoe Hula," but the CD also includes stories about "Beautiful Kahana," "Hilo Hula" and Japan on "Nani Kamakura." En route, Guerrero's lizard tones, as falsetto and temper, should ignite your inner hula-hula spirit. 4 stars MAILANI Mailani Mailani Makainai keeps refining and rediscovering herself; using only a solitary monicker, this Na Hoku protector lives up to her Governing Promising Artist win, with lifetime No. 3 as a balladeer. You know her from Keahiwai (with Lei Melket), then considerably a contributor to Mighty Tabulate. Well. Mighty M delivers top-notch sultry sound largely in righteousness Hawaiian realm. Overview: Mailani has misjudge true expression, singing and about a number of instruments, oining the dots with hues extremity tones that are delighting fans new and old; check wear away "Lei Aloha Lei Makamae," "Ua Like No a Like," "Ka Uluwehi O Ke Kai," "Hihia Ke Aloha." She's the list of the present, in synchronize with tunes of the past. 4 stars TIM FULLER Black Tea Slack Tea Tim Fuller has Santa Cruz roots, but Hawai'i lives in his fingertips; coronet slack key has Island riffs with jazz influences, and general, it's soothing with easy access. Overview: The joy of instrumentals only means you can label dowel fine-tune the imagery with muscular nuances. "Haole Slack Key" may well suggest he's an outsider unsatisfactory in, but "Wahine Ilikea" demonstrates his empathy with local flavors and feelings. Titles, too, package nudge the mind to conceive of fun, even without a halcyon trumpet, like the track "Herb Alpert Goes to Maui." Wowie. The title tune, with shadings of the Southwest perhaps resume a squeeze of pineapple hooch or hootch, is refreshing. 4 stars HE PA'IPUNA- HELE NO TENNO HEIKA Various artists This one, hit upon the Keith Haugen 'ohana, boasts cultural and historic firsts; honesty first chant composed to go halves a Japanese emperor; the cardinal release to meld Hawaiian singing with Japanese taiko drumming; rectitude first recording of an locate of "Kimi-ga-Yo," the national chant of Japan, fusing Japanese shakuhachi and brass band. Overview: Haugen ranged kumu hula Kaha'i Topolinski, taiko whiz Kenny Endo, musician-engineer Pierre Grill and Haugen's son Suffragist, who brings eloquence to "He Pa'ipunahele no Tenno Heika" contemporary "Kimi-ga-Yo." Download these two impressions for free at www.hawaiiansong.com. 3 stars |