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The Waitiki 7: Waitiki In Hi-Fi

Read "The Waitiki 7: Waitiki In Hi-Fi" reviewed by Chris May


The Waitiki 7Waitiki In Hi-FiPass Out Records2011 It must have been hell being a young adult in the US in the 1950s. Imagine it: the government was headed by a five-star general; nuclear Armageddon was a constant threat; race relations were bitter going on murderous; demands for workers' rights were seen as communistic subversion; working women were viewed as abnormal; gays were agents of the devil; you could spend years in ...

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The Waitiki 7, in Hi-Fi Vinyl (Pass Out Records) - 02/08/2011

The Waitiki 7, in Hi-Fi Vinyl (Pass Out Records) - 02/08/2011

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From egg-shaped plush chairs or towering cabinets carved like totem poles, hi-fi sound once poured over the conversation pits and cocktail hours of yesteryear. The warm tone and stop-and-listen vibe continue with exotica innovators WAITIKI 7's latest venture, WAITIKI in Hi-Fi (Pass Out Records; April 12, 2011). The vinyl-only release of new material finally gives listeners—die-hard exotica connoisseurs, record collectors, or the merely tiki-curious—a chance to sit back and savor the group's fresh look at a midcentury music in clear, ...

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Waitiki 7 Releasing New Album "New Sounds of Exotica"

Waitiki 7 Releasing New Album "New Sounds of Exotica"

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New Sounds of Exotica: Tiki Classics Get Shaken, Stirred, and Perfected by the Masterful WAITIKI 7

Take one part diverse players with intense focus and killer chops, and one part neglected mid-century multi-ethnic hybrid music with origins on America's harmonious island paradise. Add a dash of Technicolor tropical dreamscape, a twist of wild birdcalls, and stir soulfully.

WAITIKI 7 serves up this polychrome cocktail, taking a new serious spin on exotica, the musical genre that leaped from Hawaii's fashionable bars ...

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The Waitiki 7 Announce Fall Tour to Support Adventures in Paradise -- Sept. 20-24

The Waitiki 7 Announce Fall Tour to Support Adventures in Paradise -- Sept. 20-24

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Release Date: August 18, 2009 (In Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of Hawai'i's Statehood)

Adventures in Paradise, the debut album by The WAITIKI 7, is a contemporary re-imagining of the classic Exotica sound introduced on the islands in 1959 the year of Hawaii's statehood. Martin Denny, a transplanted mainland pianist who tapped into the tropical zeitgeist, stirred together several disparate elements, and created a whole new sound in the process."Exotica floats in the zone between soundscapes and an early world ...

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