I would be remiss, in any discussion of Hawai’ian music, to not discuss covers. For whatever reason, the culture of Hawai’ian contemporary pop is one where covers thrive. Personally, I find it a refreshing change, especially from the world of hip hop which is incredibly authorial.
Anyway here’s the incredible Ka’au Crater Boys — who are well known for their covers — covering Orleans’s “Still The One” off their first album.
My favorite Hawai’ian band, for pretty much my entire life, has been Olomana. Their songs are twinged with influences of the music from the continental United States from the ’60s and ’70s, especially folk and country. But their music is unquestionably Hawai’ian, with the dazzling slack key guitar and vocal harmonies that it seems everyone excelled at during the ’70s.
This is “Walk Through a Rainbow.”
Hello! I must extend my apologies for leaving you all without a post yesterday. I believe this snaps a streak we had of more than a year with at least one post a day.
The reason for the break is that neither Colin nor I could figure out what to do for our thousandth post on Nullary Sources, which turns out to be this one right here. So yesterday came and went.
To make up for it, we’re going to post nothing but Hawai’ian music all day today. First up is “Pua Lilia” from The Sunday Manoa’s second album. The Sunday Manoa was perhaps the very first contemporary Hawai’ian music group, so I figured they’d be a good place to start.
Plus, Peter Moon’s solo starting at 1:35 is one of the best there ever was.
Today, on a very special episode of Nullary Sources, we present to you a performance of Camille Saint-Saëns’s The Carnival of the Animals from the 2005 Dubrovnik Festival of Chamber Music. The movement accompanying this post is “Introduction and Royal March of the Lion,” but the rest of the movements have been uploaded to a playlist, save for “Wild Asses,” which is private for some reason.
This performance is somewhat notable because it’s narrated by Roger Moore. He introduces each movement with a poem. A poem which appears to be written for this performance.
Let that one sink in. Sir Roger Moore reciting original poetry about animals. Poetry like this:
The lion is the king of beasts;
His crown a golden mane.
He has an air of dignity
And yellow-eyed disdain.
His paws, which look so velvety,
Aren’t only there for show,
So if he asks you ‘round for tea,
It’s wiser not to go.
Watch it all.
Kunitaka Watanabe plays “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree” on an Otamatone for your enjoyment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eme5O-kmEFU
I just checked the clock, and it seems that it’s time for The Brothers Johnson. Let’s indulge with “Real Love” from their 1988 album Kickin’.
Apparently neither Colin nor myself has ever posted anything by the Ka’au Crater Boys on this here tumblelog. This grave oversight will now be corrected with “Kawika,” which has been in my head for a while.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00QCRuxDlcY
Guy Fieri, Tyler, the Creator, Ricky Gervais, Thor, Bob Pollard and Gandalf perform Toto’s Africa live in Paris.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPqvVU90Rdk
Al Green, David Gilmour (yes), Jools Holland and (younger brother) Christopher Holland perform “Let’s Stay Together” on the Jonathan Ross show in 2010. Al Green: still got it.
Rayman Origins is a pretty great game. Or at least the first world of it is, as that’s all I’ve played so far.
I died in the first scrolling shooter stage. Not because it was difficult, because it really wasn’t. I beat it on my second try without a problem.
No, I died because I was doubled over laughing at the background music, and as a result I could not play the game at all. That background music, “Shooter – Kazoo” by Christophe Héral or Billy Martin, accompanies this post.
This piece is such a glorious trainwreck.