GIANT Streaming music thread (big post) to curate for posterity! What records / lps do you have in your collection that you either inherited from your folks, or are non kitsch traditional Hawaiian or Polynesian? Would love this to be a nostalgia and traditional music thread! (playlist included)
TL;DR – What’s your favorite music you grew up with, traditional “non-exploitative and non-kitsch” stuff? Would love to add to the below list, learn some more, & curate my physical collection a bit more than the big ole digital boring one I have. =) I’ve got everything listed, but now hunt for more vinyl.
It’s quite the process, and thought it’d be fun to have other people join in as I digitally cratedig.
This is a pet project, so… to make this a bit more helpful:
I am hyperlinking Youtube Music albums when possible, and if not that, youtube “full album” posts/streams. These giant tech sites have links that are least likely to die, in the future. So this should be useful for some time. YTM is *not* my favorite, but it has less roadblocks.
I’ve also made a Youtube Music (YTM) playlist of all the below, and included more available albums of each artist when possible. It’s well over 5 hours: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE1InrZfsJQmdq7KnJXo6aJAhePmunfRY&si=Wmacx5tNBcKB6yby
Thanks all for your music and your help. Cheers.
In the end: I want missing or lost albums, I want to discard albums that aren’t generally loved for whatever reasons, and hope to build this list out as something evergreen for the future of the internet.
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Hi!
Mainlander CA dude here who has been a DJ for 20 years, crate digger for 40. I’m a hotel brat that grew up with all of you, in that I came and we spent money and went home about 50 times throughout my 48 years LOL. =)
I’ve been so privileged and lucky to have been given the opportunity to appreciate and share your culture, islands, and specifically the nature of Aloha. Your earnest warmth and hospitality changed my life and charted my career path in hospitality, myself. I promise I’m trying to spread Aloha to every corner!
That being said, anytime I travel I try to bring back the music with me and continue to listen to it to keep that vibe, whether Mexico, Paris, Iceland, etc. But Hawaiian music (respect to my lounge jazz, but not Martin Denny or Arthur Lyman LOL) is a constant in our home. To keep that spirit of vacation, it’s fun to listen to the music for a few weeks, at least!
I’m not into algorithms delivering music, and I like to curate my own physical collection. I’ve plenty of jazz and some Hawaiian, but want to really round out my slack key guitar and classic albums. What I’m doing is working backwards from some digital stuff and going on discogs to find out what actually exists on vinyl.
It’s a slog. So much Renaissance / Golden Age / Traditional seems to really never have hit LPs.
SO: Historically, the best question is “What did your parents give you?” =)
This is just my list so far. ROUND IT OUT!
Any thoughts, comments, etc are welcome. ESPECIALLY, of course, missing artists or of the below their best or most unknown albums, etc.
Random: Being a “Californio”, it’s so cool that Mexican Vaqueros were decades before our cowboys, and 30 years before the Wild West began. These guys came over to help with how to lasso and herd cattle, etc… and brought guitars?? I know that’s the legend, but I just absolutely love it. The appropriate amount of cultural fusion to create something magical and new. =) I just loved that some Hawaiians won a couple rodeo / lasso contests in Wyoming before our wild west was really off and running!**
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MY CURRENT LIST:
Makaha Sons – Ho’oluana (no YTM, so Apple Music)
Keali I Reichel – Kawaipunahele
Gabby Pahinui Linked album is “Gabby”, This one here is Pure Gabby
Raymond Kane: Nanaluki’s Raymond Kane, This is Slack Key Guitar
The Fabulous Krush (youtube album of best of)
The Pineapple Sugar Hawaiian Band: The Pineapple Sugar Hawaiian Band Vol. 1 (1978) – I can’t find any streams!
Keola Beamer – link is to Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar in the Real Old Style
Cecilio & Kapono – Elua linkedAuntie Alice Ku?uleialohapoina‘ole Namakelua (PBS Video!)
Leokane Pryor – Maunahele (I don’t know his pedigree, but he’s just a guy I know from Hana!)
The Brothers Cazimero – Ho’ala
Peter Moon – Cane Fire (Youtube playlist)
Atta Isaacs: The Legendary Atta Isaacs
Kalapana- Album I, Album II, Album III
Country Comfort – We Are the Children
Sunday Manoa – Guava Jam (and here is a full album on youtube of Cracked Seed)
Gary Haleamau – Big Island Style
Olomana – Like a Seabird in the Wind (youtube full album)
Hapa – Hapa
Leonard Kwan – Slack Key
Sonny Chillingworth – Waimea Cowboy
Pekelo Cosma – Hana by the Sea
This Slack Key comp from 1995 is super, too!
Izzy of course. His Mona Lisa!!! I imagine we love him but have heard him quite a bit… OtR has 1.8 Billion views just on YTM alone. lol What a gem of a human.
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And I know this isn’t on vinyl, but I want to support arts and the youth! =)
I spend a lot of time on Lanai and I really want to shout out the Lanai Academy of Performing Arts. Around 2019, they did “Day of Conquest: A Story of Kaulul??au” and it was just so special and fantastic.
The musical recorded:
Performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCiN_pbHWXI
Streaming album YTM: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mHAdngee7Den3jLqgeHoBWINQzrGFHvQU&si=3ckNTh1L6-yPu1L1
You can buy it on amazon, etc.
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For those interested in the Vaquero story:
- This is my favorite story. In 1832, some Californio Vaqueros were training Hawaiians how to be cowboys, rope cattle, and this was well before the rise of the Wild West. In fact, a couple Hawaiians went to a Rodeo competition and all 3 won their events. Our Wild West was 1865 – 1895, 30 short years… but it’s so cool Hawaiians were roping WAY WAY before we were!
How Mexican Vaqueros Inspired Hawaiian Cowboys Decades Before the Wild West https://projectpulso.org/2022/09/21/hawaiian-vaqueros/
Two centuries ago, 3 Mexican vaqueros Californians crossed an ocean and changed Hawaii forever https://www.sfgate.com/hawaii/article/hawaii-cowboy-paniolo-history-18615187.php