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We're trying a closer to real life recording setup this time which includes a real microphone, cables without splices and the surprisingly capable Garage Band 2. It all seems to work so fah'.
The music is a wonderful three-minute escape to paradise called 'Lei Hinahina' from Keali'i Reichel's album 'Melelana.'
8:23:56 PM Denny created a sound that he described as a fusion of Asian, South Pacific, American jazz, Latin American and classical. He was particularly known for his song and album entitled "Quiet Village." Musicians Association of Hawaii president Michael Largarticha says the world has lost one of its great popular musicians. He says Denny was active and performing until just shortly before his death. Largarticha says Denny had a good life and a long and very successful career."
Martin Denny's music was just as original. In a reaction to the bland steel-guitar and tiny bubbles that dominated the popular 'Tiki' lounges of the time, Denny mixed the rhythmic sounds of music from across the tropical latitudes with jazz, sound effects, hypnotic drums and his trademark bird calls to create what became known as 'Exotica'. His lush cinematic arrangements made World music popular among the post-war Playboy bachelor-pad crowd of the '50s and '60s. Today we call this 'Lounge Music' and it's popularity has brought the music of Martin Denny to the attention of many new fans. You can count me in. 10:18:43 AM
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After too long a delay MacHelp from Maui lurches back to the ether with some mention of life in the islands, a personal history of Apple's best-looking portable - the 'Bronze' or 'Pismo' PowerBook. For no good reason I go on about this black beauty and its relationship to the original iMac. By the way, after recording this I checked the prices of Pismo PowerBooks on eBay and they are currently selling twix $400 and $600. The word must have gotten out.
Another bit of Hawaii's music history fades with the passing of master musician and Hawaii resident Martin Denny, one of the founders of Exotica Lounge music. I accidentally discovered Martin Denny's music while searching for mellow tracks to play on the newly installed sound system in our newly installed hot tub. During a Google Image search for album cover art, I stumbled across a series of unusually erotic retro covers by someone called Martin Denny. They were all very high art for the period - displaying the same suggestively posed model in Afro-Caribbean-Hawaiian sets rather than the usual white-guys in bad suits or dumb-blond in a bad bikini photo. This lady was definitely NOT your sister, neighbor or gym teacher.