This Carol of the Bells medley was preformed at the Christmas Oranges Benefit Concert 12/8/2008. The Creative Stylings of Steven Sharp Nelson & Marshall McDonald join forces with two powerhouse musicians; Clayton McDonald, and Peter Steenblik
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvFB10iIOrw
Here’s Ready 2 Rip by Mean Jeans. This is off their album “On Mars” which believe it or not came out in 2012.
The Fairlight CMI IIx was a neato sampler from the ’80s. It was also horrifically expensive, apparently. Wikipedia says it cost about £27,000 in 1983, which works out to over $125,000 in today’s Americabucks or something like that.
What did you do with a IIx? Well, you played orchestra hits with it. All day, every day.
Some pretty cool music makers are Family FUNKtion and the Sitar Jams, three brothers who groove the heck out with percussion, guitar, an SH-101, and sitar of course. They performed a medley of “Supermandala” and “That” with some free jamming in the middle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf3WF6Vqb1A
Andrew Sega time. He wrote two and a half albums under the solo project The Alpha Conspiracy. My favorite piece of these is “Winter” from the first album, cipher. Such a rich sound.
Well we really hope you’ve enjoyed this NS at 1,000 Hawai’ian Music Celebration Extravaganza and Potluck. ‘Ili and I would like to thank our readers for doing all that reading that you do. I know it’s hard to read more than 140 characters at a time these days but, really, we appreciate it.
Play us off, Jon & Randy, with the beautiful “Hawai’ian Eyes”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQFrJy8td4A
Gabby Pahinui is widely loved as one of the fathers of Hawai’ian music. As both a solo musician and a member of the Sons of Hawaii, his mix of slack-key guitar and traditional Hawai’ian songs was majorly influential on many who would follow. So that’s why we’re posting him twice! That and how he’s awesome, of course.
This is an old recording I’ve never heard before, “Wai O Ke Aniani.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10Xir0eEDV4
In 1946, Gabby Pahinui recorded what may have been the first slack key guitar record, “Hi’ilawe”. Here he is performing it in the documentary “Slack Key & Other Notes”, which is sadly apparently not for sale.
“Drop Baby Drop” is one of the gems of Hawai’ian contemporary pop. Released in 1995, it’s received steady airplay ever since. If you tune in to KINE 105.1 FM you’ll almost certainly hear it within the hour.
Here’s The Mana’o Company — who make a pleasant mix of Hawaiian, reggae, and R&B — performing the song live in 2010. (Don’t miss the somewhat awkward dancing by the crowd.)
There sadly doesn’t appear to exist that much footage of the late, great Israel Kamakawiwo’ole, at least on YouTube. He died in 1997, just narrowly missing the age where everything that ever happens is recorded and uploaded to the internet.
A big exception are Iz’s performances in the Hot Hawaiian Nights series of concerts. There’s even a DVD collecting these for the die-hard fans. One of the songs he performed, along with Roland Cazimero and Mel Amina, was “Panini Pua Kea.”